Broadband News
Fri, 12th Apr 2013
ACCC braces for poor-performing NBN services
The ACCC is bracing for complaints over the performance of internet and voice services as NBN connections become mainstream.
Source: iTnews Australia
NBN street cabinets 'hideous'
About 60,000 cabinets that look like stretched refrigerators will be installed on footpaths under the Coalition's national broadband network, bringing criticism from urban designers.
Source: SMH
Thu, 11th Apr 2013
ACCC endorses network congestion pricing
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Rod Sims has welcomed the suggestion that ISPs begin charging customers for speeds, not just data.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Internode picks up customer satisfaction award, again
National ISP, Internode, has scored its third Canstar Blue Most Satisfied Customers award for Broadband ADSL services following its recent Roy Morgan Research Customer Satisfaction Home Internet Service Provider Award for 2012.
Source: iTWire
M2 buyout of EFTel inches closer
EFTel looks set to be integrated into the business of listed telco M2 Telecommunications after 90 percent of the company's shareholders today indicated they would accept the deal.
Source: iTnews Australia
ACCC head backs Telstra on tiered broadband debate
In a speech delivered today to the Australian-Israel Chamber of Commerce, Rod Sims, the chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission endorsed Telstra's Kate McKenzie's call for a debate on tiered pricing for broadband customers based on the quality of service they desired.
Source: Computerworld
Turnbull says copper can do it
In a wide-ranging address at a Sydney conference Malcolm Turnbull has insisted that FTTN and copper cabling can deliver sufficient broadband speeds.
Source: iTWire
Will the Coalition's NBN be better for the bush?
Independent MP Tony Windsor has questioned whether the Coalition's NBN policy will provide better services for rural Australia. He is unimpressed with Opposition assurances.
Source: iTWire
A choice of two NBN's
The national broadband argument and what's on offer has come a long way since Kevin Rudd first put it on the political stage in 2007. At that time, the government promised to spend $4.7 billion on a network that would deliver and guarantee just 12Mbps.
Source: ARN
Wed, 10th Apr 2013
Libs kick NBN policy own-goal, but can Labor convert?
By announcing its policy, the Coalition has finally framed the NBN discussion in more realistic terms. It has also invalidated six years of its own arguments that Labor was spending too much on its NBN.
Source: ZDNet Australia
ACMA issues warnings for TCP code non-compliance
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has issued a formal warning to Activ8me and Sure Telecom for failing to make critical information summaries available (CIS) available to customers.
Source: Computerworld
Slower NBN no good for research: minister
Australian medical and health researchers would be held back in their ability to work with overseas counterparts under the coalition's broadband plan, Health Minister Tanya Plibersek says.
Source: ARN
Coalition takes NBN back to the drawing board
There are many flaws to the alternative plan for a national broadband network delivered by the Coalition yesterday.
Source: iTnews Australia
Coalition NBN plan won't help flats: SCA
Apartment dwellers in urban centres will be the big losers under the federal coalition's high speed national broadband network plan (NBN), the peak body representing strata sector says.
Source: Computerworld
Coalition expects Telstra to hand over copper network
The Federal Opposition says it does not expect to pay Telstra for part of its copper network but the telco may be contracted for maintenance under its broadband internet plan.
Source: ABC News
Coalition's NBN do-over won't be fast or cheap, says Internode's Hackett
It could take years and extra cash to Telstra for the Coalition to revamp the NBN into a fibre-to-the-node scheme, according to Internode founder Simon Hackett.
Source: Computerworld
Abbott denies coalition's NBN plan slower
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has denied the coalition's NBN plan will lead to slower internet speeds than under Labor's plan.
Source: Computerworld
Turnbull takes slow lane, but gets there first
The Coalition's cheaper and slower alternative to Labor's national broadband network has been labelled a ''nonsense'' by experts, who argue it will put Australia behind the rest of the world.
Source: SMH
Tue, 09th Apr 2013
Coalition unveils long-awaited NBN policy
Australia's Liberal Opposition announced its policy for building a national broadband network today, junking the ALP's fibre-to-the-home plan in the hope of connecting Australians at a lower cost.
Source: iTnews Australia
Industry peak bodies give Coalition NBN policy a tick
The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) and Internet Industry Association (IIA) today both welcomed the release of the Coalition's NBN policy, in an early vote of confidence for the alternative plan.
Source: iTWire
Missing data in Turnbull's second-best NBN
Shadow Communications Malcolm Turnbull summed up the dilemma the Coalition faces in developing its broadband policy yesterday when he told a well-known Irish joke that ends with "I wouldn’t start from here".
Source: iTnews Australia
Ludlam hits out at Coalition's NBN policy
Greens ICT spokesperson Senator Scott Ludlam has condemned the Coalition’s alternative vision for the National Broadband Network.
Source: Computerworld
Telstra pushes the case for users paying for premium network quality
Telstra has continued to push its case for the possible introduction of new pricing structures for broadband users.
Source: Computerworld
Coalition's NBN to cost almost $30bn
Shadow Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said that the Coalition's alternative to Australian Labor's National Broadband Network policy would cost almost AU$30 billion.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Coalition promises NBN-lite
The Liberal-National Coalition will present its updated broadband and NBN policies later this morning, but details of the plan have already emerged through leaks to select media.
Source: iTnews Australia
Coalition makes grand promises on NBN
The Opposition says its broadband policy will offer the same internet speeds as Labor's National Broadband Network (NBN), but will be rolled out much faster and at half the cost.
Source: ARN
The long and winding road to a Coalition NBN policy
The Coalition is reportedly set to release an alternative National Broadband Network (NBN) policy this week.
Source: Computerworld
Mon, 08th Apr 2013
Vodafone plans June 4G launch
Vodafone will launch its 4G service in a number of parts of Australia this June.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Conroy hits back at NBN cost claims
Communications Minister and NBN champion Stephen Conroy has rebutted Coalition claims that the real cost of building the NBN is set to blow out to $94 billion.
Source: iTWire
Vodafone prepares 4G switch-on
Vodafone has announced it will turn its 4G network on in June, claiming the new mobile service could be the fastest in Australia.
Source: iTnews Australia