Broadband News
Tue, 17th Aug 2010
Parliamentary Library finds NBN equity shortfall
The Australian Parliament House (APH) Parliamentary Library has found a $5.5 billion shortfall in the equity injection amount required for the rollout of the National Broadband Network during the first five years of the project.
Source: Computerworld
Broadband takes centre stage in debate
Labor is heavily promoting the idea of the National Broadband Network as the country's stamped passport to a brighter future.
Source: Australian IT
Mon, 16th Aug 2010
Updated: NBN to deliver online consultations: Gillard
Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has used the Labor Party's official campaign launch to link the future health of Australians with the National Broadband Network (NBN).
Source: Computerworld
Tower per street for Lib wireless: expert
Network engineering consultant Narelle Clark has said that the Coalition's broadband policy will require a wireless base tower at the end of every street in order to deliver high-speed access.
Source: ZDNet Australia
TPG gets 'please explain' from ASX over share price slump
TPG has received a 'please explain' from the ASX after a slump its share price on Friday 13 August, accompanied by a spike in the volume of shares traded.
Source: iTWire
iiNet profits up 36 per cent
Internet service provider, iiNet's (ASX:IIN) has recorded revenue growth of 13 per cent to $474 million for the full year to 30 June 2010.
Source: Computerworld
Turnbull blasts NBN as Gillard spruiks broadband healthcare
Former Opposition leader and Federal member for Wentworth, Malcolm Turnbull, has launched a caustic online attack on Labor's NBN as the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, spoke at Labor’s campaign launch.
Source: ARN
NBN - time to reset the vision
OPINION: I have been on the Internet in 1995, selling Apple Newton software via email and web sites. I co-founded Australia's largest free ISP in 2000 and I've built 3 other online-Internet companies. I can claim to know a bit about online businesses.
Source: iTWire
Understanding the broadband election
High-speed broadband has now become an important election issue, with the two major parties offering vastly different policies. How do they compare?
Source: ZDNet Australia
NBN's future in the hands of voters
The fate of the nation's largest ever infrastructure project, the $43 billion National Broadband Network, is on a political knife edge.
Source: Australian IT
Customers, ISPs praise NBN Tasmania launch
Some of the first customers and ISPs to use the fledging National Broadband Network fibre rollout in Tasmania have praised the network in promotional videos distributed last week by NBN Co as part of the infrastructure's official launch.
Source: ARN
Sat, 14th Aug 2010
TPG adds 100,000 broadband subs in FY10
TPG has moved to re-assure the market, in the wake of Telstra's mediocre performance, that it tracking well.
Source: iTWire
Fri, 13th Aug 2010
yARN: The Coalition's broadband strategy could be a winner
Many IT-savvy Australians and industry experts think the policy is terrible, but the Coalition's broadband strategy could be a successful play for the mainstream vote.
Source: ARN
Telstra customers put mobile pedal to the metal!
Australians are putting pedal to the metal when it comes to using their mobile phones for voice calls, text messaging and mobile broadband on the Telstra network, but while the news is welcome, it’s hardly surprising!
Source: iTWire
Sick to death of Labor broadband spin
The Labor party's desperate attempt to bribe tech-savvy Australians with a promise to deliver a 1Gbps national broadband network, sometime over the next 8 years, at a cost of tens of billions of dollars is a disgrace and needs to be exposed.
Source: iTWire
Quigley: No plans to put more Tasmanians on the board of TNBN Co
NBN Co CEO, Mike Quigley, has claimed three Tasmanian board members that lost their positions were not dropped due to bad performances.
Source: ARN
Thu, 12th Aug 2010
Coalition calls in Feds on NBN costing leak
The Coalition has written to the Australian Federal Police asking it to investigate the leaking of Treasury department analysis that found an $800 million dollar hole in savings the Opposition claimed could be made from axing the National Broadband Network.
Source: iTWire
Abbott: 1Gb broadband is 'utterly implausible'
Opposition leader Tony Abbott has dismissed claims by the NBN Company that it will deliver broadband speeds of 1Gbps - "ten times faster than the 100Mbps already promised" - as an election ploy conjured by the Gillard government.
Source: iTWire
1Gbps demand years away, says Thodey
Telstra chief executive, David Thodey, has said demand in the average home for the 1Gbps speeds now planned under Labor's National Broadband Network policy was "a good few years away", although he welcomed NBN Co's commitment to providing the upgraded speeds.
Source: ARN
Business chiefs back NBN
Business heavyweights today leant additional support to the National Broadband Network, with Rod McGeoch, a director of Telecom New Zealand attacking the coalition for "settling for 12 Mbps" speeds and its plan to leave Telstra intact if elected.
Source: iTWire
Telstra PSTN continues its slide
In news that will surprise few in the telecommunications sector, Telstra has announced that its PSTN products revenue has continued to decline in the year to 30 June 2010, dropping some $504 million, or 8.0 per cent over 2009 to $5.833 billion.
Source: Computerworld
Telstra warns ISPs to expect "aggressive" competition
Telstra has sounded a warning to ISPs nationally that it will compete with them "fairly but very aggressively" to retain and grow its own retail customer base and arrest declines in sales revenue.
Source: iTnews Australia
'Turbo' NBN to cost taxpayers no more
Labor has told taxpayers they will pay no more for a national broadband network able to provide speeds 10 times faster than originally envisaged.
Source: Australian IT
Conroy promises NBN speeds of up to 1Gbps
Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, claims the National Broadband Network NBN willreach speeds of up 1Gbps, 10 times faster than the originally announced speeds of up to 100Mbps.
Source: ARN
Optus to consider part-financing Coalition backhaul
Optus is willing to consider contributing part of the cost to create a competitive backhaul network under the Coalition's broadband policy announced this week.
Source: iTnews Australia
NBN download boost ups ante
The National Broadband Network will today unveil plans to boost download speeds on the nationwide fibre network by a factor of 10.
Source: Australian IT
Wed, 11th Aug 2010
Australia doesn't need the NBN
As someone who is very pro-technology and likes to be on the cutting edge, I find myself staring at many of my colleagues and acquaintances in the industry with disbelief when the topic of the National Broadband Network comes up.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Telstra safe under Abbott's alternative
The Coalition will grant Telstra a stay of execution on structural separation.
Source: Australian IT
NBN, Libs plan both serve telemedicine
Leading surgeon and medical media pioneer, Professor Andrew Renaut, has said that either the National Broadband Network or the $6 billion Coalition alternative would be sufficient to overcome Australia's "bandwidth barrier", which he says is preventing technological advances in fields such as medicine and education.
Source: ZDNet Australia
NBN and broadband policy: does Joe Public really care?
Coalition leader Tony Abbott has copped a bit of flack recently for being a self-confessed techno-luddite to whom broadband may as well mean a new variety of pasta. The burning question is, however, does this really matter to the largely non-tech man and woman in the street.
Source: iTWire