Broadband News
Thu, 18th Feb 2021
Aussie Broadband brings in NBN users chasing a better experience
Aussie Broadband’s growth in residential broadband is coming largely from NBN users “disenfranchised” with their existing provider and looking to make a switch.
Source: iTnews Australia
Facebook restricts Australians' access to news
Australians are being blocked from accessing news in their Facebook feeds, in a dramatic escalation of the social media giant's stand-off with the federal government.
Source: ABC News
NBN Co executives and employees got $77 million in bonuses in back half of 2020
There were more bonuses paid out to NBN Co employees in five months of 2020 than in the entirety of the 2018-19 financial year.
Source: ABC News
Wed, 17th Feb 2021
Telstra recommends amending existing telco Acts instead of creating duplication
Telstra has asked Australia's pending national critical infrastructure laws to avoid creating duplicate or conflicting requirements for the telecommunications sector, highlighting that existing regimes it is bound by already "work well".
Source: ZDNet Australia
Aussie Broadband switches mobile allegiance from Telstra to Optus
Aussie Broadband is set to revamp its mobile services and expand into offering cellular fixed wireless after switching its mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) allegiance from Telstra to Optus.
Source: iTnews Australia
Aussie Broadband sees market share increase as losses deepen
Aussie Broadband has revealed revenue and earnings increases, and a net pre-tax profit tumble, for the half year ending 31 December 2020.
Source: ARN
Aussie Broadband announces 'bloody good' half year results to 31 Dec 2020
Aussie Broadband is the company that offers "bloody good broadband", so when we looked at its half year results, we thought they were bloody good, too!
Source: iTWire
Tue, 16th Feb 2021
Optus' new family NBN plans come with a WiFi extender
Optus' new NBN plans make it easier to blanket your home with WiFi.
Source: WhistleOut
You can now bundle Optus Flybuys plans with your phone
The plans themselves are almost identical to last year's offering but this time have a new name, and allow you to bundle available devices alongside them.
Source: WhistleOut
Google, Facebook win media code concessions over algorithmic changes
The federal government is poised to water down the requirement that digital platforms give media companies 14 days’ notice of major algorithm changes under its proposed media code.
Source: iTnews Australia
Telstra stands up automated platform to block scam calls
Telstra said it is blocking up to half a million scam calls on its busiest days using a new automated platform, part of a “double down” of a broader crackdown effort against scams that transit across its network infrastructure.
Source: iTnews Australia
Telstra blocking 1.5m scam calls a week, up from 1m a month previously
Telstra has announced the third element of its "Cleaner Pipes" initiative, ensuring that its smart pipes aren't dumb, and are as clean as possible from scam callers, safeguarding "millions of Australians in the process"
Source: iTWire
Mon, 15th Feb 2021
NBN offers telcos two paths to extending CVC bundle discounts until April 2023
The company responsible for deploying the NBN on Monday said it wants to extend the duration of its wholesale discounts and data inclusions by an additional year.
Source: ZDNet Australia
NBN Co hunts more residential revenue in 2022
NBN Co is pitching a $2 a month increase to the 'fixed' cost of its 50Mbps-plus services from May next year, with substantive changes to its price strategy deferred until 2023.
Source: iTnews Australia
NBN Co begins consultation ‘with industry in two-part wholesale pricing consultation paper’
NBN Co has released its “Pricing Review 2021 Consultation Paper 1”, which the company says “seeks to deliver value, certainty and simplicity to the telecommunication industry and customers.”
Source: iTWire
Sat, 13th Feb 2021
MyRepublic is now selling Australia's cheapest NBN 1000 plan
MyRepublic has joined the growing number of telcos offering gigabit NBN plans with the launch of its own 1000Mbps offering.
Source: WhistleOut
Fri, 12th Feb 2021
NBN pauses weekly numbers due to new HFC connection stop
The company responsible for the National Broadband Network has said it will be reviewing its generally reliable weekly release of rollout statistics, as it pinned the blame on the
Source: ZDNet Australia
Wed, 10th Feb 2021
NBN Co pays $3 billion of its $19.5 billion government loan
NBN Co has started to pay down the $19.5 billion it was loaned by the government back in 2016 to complete the rollout, using a mix of privately-sourced debt funding.
Source: iTnews Australia
NBN Co names next locations for fresh fibre extensions
NBN RSPs servicing the likes of Maitland, NSW; Deer Park, Victoria; Albany Creek in Queensland or Gepps Cross in South Australia could soon have more fibre to play with.
Source: ARN
NBN Co’s earnings surge despite CVC capacity freebies
Do NBN Co’s latest financials suggest that the company got its CVC pricing wrong from the outset?
Source: ARN
NBN Co names more FTTN cities and towns in path for fibre upgrade
NBN Co has unveiled the second group of suburbs and towns that are currently served with fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) but will now be partially overbuilt with fibre.
Source: iTnews Australia
Telstra and Southern Phone saw complaints rise over 2020
Over the course of 2020, two Australian telcos saw their complaints per 10,000 services in operation (SIO) increase while the others fell, according to the latest Communications Alliance Complaints in Context report covering October to December 2020.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Almost one Australian every minute is asking NBN Co for a fibre internet upgrade, but soon some will get it for free
Eight thousand Australians in the past week alone have sought quotes from NBN Co for a fibre upgrade. But waiting longer could mean getting a fibre upgrade for free.
Source: ABC News
Southern Phone takes top billing in latest telco complaints tally
Southern Phone has held onto the top spot for the most new complaints to the Telecommunication Industry Ombudsman per 10,000 services in operation, new data shows.
Source: ARN
Tue, 09th Feb 2021
Another 100,000 premises to get fibre as NBN Co rollout progresses
National broadband network operator NBN Co has announced the extension of its fibre network rollout, with the second tranche to pass 100,000 premises on the way to the goal of 2 million premises with fibre by the end of 2023.
Source: iTWire
Australians can now pre-order Elon Musk's space internet
Astrology girl's stock market boyfriend is doing something with the internet.
Source: WhistleOut
Telstra is replacing its postpaid SIM-only plans next week with prepaid-like Upfront options
Telstra will discontinue its current range of postpaid SIM-only plans next week, replacing them with a family of "Upfront" plans where customers now pay ahead of each billing month.
Source: WhistleOut
Australian police, regulators continue unlawfully accessing metadata
Ten agencies, including Commonwealth and state law enforcement, accessed telecommunications metadata “without proper authority” in the 2018-19 financial year, the Commonwealth Ombudsman has found.
Source: iTnews Australia
Cheap nbn™ plans under $50
Looking to get a cheap NBN plan? There are plenty of top quality budget plans on the market to choose from.
Source: WhistleOut
Fri, 05th Feb 2021
Telstra's Group CTO makes quiet exit
Telstra’s group CTO of almost four years Håkan Eriksson quietly left the telco at the end of last year.
Source: iTnews Australia