NBN Co must not become ‘pork barreling bureaucracy’
News that the CEO of the Federal Government’s National Broadband Network company, Mike Quigley, will pocket upwards of $2 million per year has raised questions whether the cost of running the company...
View ArticleTransACT rolls out 1Gbps broadband
As the National Broaband Network develops with the intention of provising 100Mbps fibre-to-the-premises, ACT ISP TransACT has announced the successful delivery of 1Gbps broadband to residential...
View ArticleTransACT to kick off FTTP gateway in the ACT
TransACT will unveil a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) gateway in Canberra on Tuesday in what it is describing as a “first of its kind in Australia”.
View ArticleOrganisations should prepare for the NBN now: Gartner
Enterprise network users must evaluate their attitudes, relationships and approaches to sourcing networking services in Australia, because of the radical NBN-fuelled changes emerging in the...
View ArticleConroy moves to make new housing developments NBN-ready
The Federal Government has introduced the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Fibre Deployment) Bill 2010 into the Parliament which aims to ensure new homes built at greenfield estates include...
View ArticleComing to a wall near you: Meet the NBN ONT
The announcement of an $85 million deal between Alcatel-Lucent and National Broadband Network (NBN) wholesaler NBN Co brought with it the news that the telco giant, and source of many of NBN Co's...
View ArticleMajor carriers win NZ rural broadband bid
Rural broadband in New Zealand is expected to improve from the halfway through this year, with the country’s government awarding major carriers Telecom NZ (ASX: TEL) and Vodafone NZ the tender for its...
View ArticleFibre cable free to the door: NBN Co
The federal government business responsible for the National Broadband Network, NBN Co, today fended off claims that first release site residents will be charged for fibre optic cable-laying to their...
View ArticleNBN costs 'thousands less' than today's fibre: Quigley
At the launch of the next trial site of the National Broadband Network in Kiama, NSW today, NBN Co chief Mike Quigley said concerns about pricing for Internet access are unfounded as fibre connections...
View ArticleFTTN makes sense for NBN, AAPT says
It makes more sense to roll out fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) for the National Broadband Network (NBN) than the government's current fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) approach, according to the CEO of internet...
View ArticleNBN Co chair says copper in 'reasonable condition'
Copper has proven to be more resilient than NBN Co Chairman Ziggy Switkowski once thought, the former Telstra executive has told a parliamentary committee today.
View ArticleIt's war: NBN Co responds to TPG's FTTB rollout
NBN Co's new chief executive, Bill Morrow, has warned that buildings that sign up for TPG's new fibre-to-the-basement rollout run the risk of being stuck with a single retail service provider.
View ArticleNBN Co would do more fibre if it was cheaper: Morrow
The Senate committee overseeing the National Broadband Network has drilled NBN Co about a disputed report that claimed great cost reductions to rolling out fibre to the premise (FTTP).
View ArticleNBN Co eyes FTTN trial extension
NBN Co is set to expand the scope of its National Broadband Network fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) construction trial, according to the company’s chief customer officer, John Simon.
View ArticleNBN considers roll-out of NG-PON2
NBN sees potential in NG-PON2 (Next-Generation Passive Optical Network 2) as means to deliver on its future bandwidth and capacity requirements, the company’s CTO said today.
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