| Date | Title | Description |
| 17.09.2024 | WTW launches risk advisory practice dedicated to technology sector | Ben Di Marco, James Baum and Andrew Morgan
Global advisory and insurance services firm Willis Towers Watson (WTW) has launched a dedicated technology industry practice downunder, with the nine-strong team to be led by Ben Di Marco.
The new ... |
| 13.09.2024 | Merging Forces: The Rise of Cybersecurity and AI in Business Growth | In the digital age, businesses are like ships navigating treacherous waters. The threats are real, and the stakes are high. Cybersecurity and artificial intelligence (AI) are the lifeboats that can keep these ships afloat. Recent developmen... |
| 12.09.2024 | Screwloose IT and White Rook Cyber Strategic Merger | BRISBANE, Australia, Sept. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- White Rook Cyber is excited to announce they have strategically merged with the privately owned Screwloose IT (SL).
The merger of White Rook Cyber, a premium industry leader in Cyber Secur... |
| 19.08.2024 | Progility Technologies: A New Era of Leadership and Vision | In the fast-paced world of technology, change is the only constant. Progility Technologies, a Melbourne-based ICT services and consulting firm, is embracing this truth with a significant shake-up in its leadership team. The company has appo... |
| 19.08.2024 | Progility Technologies announces new CEO & leadership team changes | Progility Technologies has announced significant changes to its leadership team to support the company's growth and operational excellence initiatives. The company has appointed David Gilmour as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Megan Hossack ... |
| 16.08.2024 | Progility Technologies makes board-level appointments | Profile Progility Technologies
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Melbourne-based ICT services and consulting firm Progility Technologies has made three changes in its executive team, including the appointment of David Gilmour as CEO.
Progility Technologi... |
| 12.08.2024 | Paul Fletcher points to women telco leaders when asked about gender disparity in tech | Source: TechLeaders article-article-body
Shadow Minister for Science, Arts, Government Services and the Digital Economy Paul Fletcher has highlighted the positions of two women technology leaders in response to a question on the closure of ... |
| 25.07.2024 | CFOs & CIOs in ANZ align to optimise tech investments | According to a new report conducted by Censuswide for Rimini Street, Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) and Chief Information Officers (CIOs) in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) are collaborating more closely to scrutinise technology spend in a... |
| 02.07.2024 | Better connectivity for smarter transport | A patchwork of technologies will no longer cut it in the transportation industry. You can’t simply add boxes and services in an ad-hoc way and expect to get your goods and people where they need to be, when they need to be there. A holistic... |
| 19.03.2024 | Sendle renews push to open up Australia Post’s network to competitors | Sendle co-founder and CEO James Chin-Moody. Source: supplied. article-article-body
Australian entrepreneur James Chin Moody loves to make curry, but he won’t settle for any old supermarket spice.
“We get our curry powder sent from Humpty Do... |
| 28.02.2024 | Price gouging by banks? There’s a simple solution | (Clockwise from top left) The logos of NAB, ANZ, Westpac, and Commonwealth Bank. Source: Joel Carrett / AAP Image article-article-body
Does it feel like you’re being charged more for all sorts of things these days, from groceries to banking... |
| 22.12.2023 | ‘A big, risky project’: Turnbull says NBN cost will be settled soon | article-article-body
How much will it actually cost to connect Australian households to the National Broadband Network? Estimates have varied wildly, but Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull told Crikey we should have a pretty good answ... |
| 05.06.2023 | How Can Australians Improve Their Internet Speeds? | Noah Miller, Tech Times 05 June 2023, 11:06 am
(Photo : How Can Australians Improve Their Internet Speeds?)
The internet has become an integral part of our daily lives - even moreso since the pandemic made remote work more widespread, but l... |
| 11.05.2023 | NBN Co to use analytics platform to tackle energy use | NBN Co said it had engaged an unnamed third-party to help it identify opportunities to reduce energy use and the size of its bills.
The arrangement came to light in an ASX filing this week, where Optima Technology said that NBN Co would use... |
| 05.05.2023 | NBN Co to reduce customer notice period for FTTC-P upgrade work | NBN Co is revising the way it approaches fibre upgrade work in its FTTC footprint, cutting the amount of notice it gives customers from at least five business days down to one.
The change to the notification period comes into effect at the ... |
| 13.04.2023 | NBN Co's median salary is $147,511 | NBN Co’s median salary at the start of this year was $147,511, an amount the company said reflected its need for in-demand technical skills.
The company was asked for the “average” wage of an NBN worker by senator Sarah Hanson-Young in esti... |
| 21.03.2023 | NBN Co nets $2.1 billion in Euro raise | NBN Co is using its plan to push fibre further out into its network as the basis for “green bond” issuance.
A green bond issue in Europe has brought NBN Co $2.1 billion, the proceeds of which the infrastructure owner says will be “fully all... |
| 10.03.2023 | NBN Co sees its first-ever dip in active HFC services | NBN Co saw its total number of HFC subscribers fall by almost 5700 through the back of 2022, despite there being no obvious upgrade path or replacement option.
The losses account for a very small percentage of the HFC subscriber base - abou... |
| 15.02.2023 | NBN Co labels exodus to Starlink 'modest' | NBN Co is still confident that its broadband services can satisfy users, despite clear growth in Starlink’s user base in Australia at the national network operator's expense.
Chief development officer for regional and remote, Gavin Williams... |
| 21.12.2022 | NBN Co's new expectations emphasise 'affordable' broadband | NBN Co is working under a revised statement of expectations that requires the company to be more transparent in the way it operates and makes strategic decisions.
The revised statement of expectations [pdf] is considerably more detailed tha... |
| 12.12.2022 | NBN Co shows 4.1 percent of free fibre upgraders don't stay on high-tier plans | NBN Co has revealed that 4.1 percent of households that received a free fibre upgrade did not stick out their minimum commitment to a plan of 100Mbps or more.
The figure is contained in a consultation document [pdf] shared with retail servi... |
| 30.11.2022 | Major boost for Australia’s digital backbone as NBN Co selects Ericsson for Fixed Wireless Access network upgrade | Major boost for Australia’s digital backbone as NBN Co selects Ericsson for Fixed Wireless Access network upgrade
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Ten-year partnership extension spans 4G and 5G next-generation solutions
Erics... |
| 10.11.2022 | NBN Co eyes 25Gbps services | NBN Co CTO Ray Owen has unveiled some of the upgrades the network builder has in mind as it pushes the capability of residential fibre beyond the current single gigabit speeds.
Speaking to the CommsDay Wholesale Forum, Owen foreshadowed upg... |
| 28.09.2022 | NBN Co has a new acting CIO and new tech transformation | NBN Co is under new IT leadership and has a second technology transformation program underway that builds on an earlier $200 million overhaul.
The company’s annual report [pdf], released Tuesday, details a previously-unpublished “critical t... |
| 15.09.2022 | NBN Co working on access for disadvantaged families | NBN Co is considering taking a model it uses to support the most remote Indigenous communities, and re-purposing it to support disadvantaged urban families.
From opposition, prime minister Anthony Albanese promised support for around 30,000... |
| 30.06.2022 | NBN Co boosts its business service to 10Gbps | NBN Co has followed TPG into the 10 Gbps business service market.
The move comes as the result of enhancements to NBN Co's wholesale Enterprise Ethernet product, and will be available in 304 business fibre zones whose footprint covers a cla... |
| 22.06.2022 | NBN Co taking orders for 'non-premises' connections | Nearly six years after first discussing expanding its remit beyond premises connections, NBN Co has announced it’s taking orders for what it calls Smart Places connections.
The network operator has long harboured a wish to be an IoT player.... |
| 03.06.2022 | NBN Co opens FTTC-to-FTTP upgrade offer to 160,000 premises | A month after revealing plans to upgrade some customer copper lead-ins to fibre, NBN Co has kicked off the replacement of fibre-to-the-curb (FTTC) products with fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP).
The network operator said as of today, 160,000 pr... |
| 14.04.2022 | Election 2022: What’s next for the NBN? Here’s what Labor and the Coalition are promising | Source: The Conversation
For many Australians, the promise of cheap, reliable broadband remains a dream. So why is the National Broadband Network (NBN) still not delivering an outcome that was promised more than a decade ago when the NBN ro... |
| 22.03.2022 | NBN Co reveals the two ways to get invited to upgrade FTTN to full fibre | NBN Co is starting to send invitations to “more than 50,000” fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) customers to initiate an upgrade to full fibre from today.
It has also finally published a list of retail service providers participating in the upgrade p... |
| 21.03.2022 | NBN Co quantifies how many HFC dropouts in a day is too many | NBN Co has quietly brought HFC under the same performance standard as fibre-to-the-node (FTTN), such that four or more “unexpected dropouts” in a 24-hour period would qualify a service to be investigated.
The company made the change to its ... |
| 09.02.2022 | NBN Co lobs fresh discounts at 12Mbps users to upgrade | NBN Co will begin the new year with a fresh round of discounts aimed mostly at getting fixed-line users to vacate the 12Mbps tier, in line with a recent push to set 25Mbps as its new minimum speed.
The company will offer six months of whole... |
| 25.01.2022 | NBN Co sheds 1200 satellite customers since December | NBN Co lost over 1200 active satellite customers between the start of December and early January, and 1772 customers since its active user base peaked at 112,600 in early September 2021.
The downward trend is captured in the company’s weekl... |
| 10.11.2021 | NBN Co caps fibre upgrade trial numbers to a maximum of 525 premises | NBN Co has substantially revised down the number of premises that will actually participate in its full fibre upgrade trials from now through mid-March, clarifying that the number is capped at 525.
Earlier this week, the company told iTnews... |
| 29.09.2021 | Telstra broaches ADSL's 'end of life' | Telstra is starting to think about declaring the "end of life" of its ADSL network as it looks to cut ties with a technology it says is increasingly expensive to operate and "inferior" to just about any alternative.
The ... |
| 15.09.2021 | NBN Co to charge free fibre recipients that don't stick with higher speed plans | NBN Co has indicated that beneficiaries of its free residential fibre upgrades will be charged if they try to drop down from the higher speed service they ordered to qualify for the upgrade within the first 12 months.
After months of uncert... |
| 05.08.2021 | NBN Co cancelled almost 58,000 technician appointments in April and May | NBN Co cancelled almost 58,000 technician appointments that had been made over a two-month period earlier this year, coinciding with issues with a new field workforce management system.
The numbers [pdf] were revealed overnight and appeared... |
| 05.07.2021 | NBN Co to offer temporary discount for every active 250Mbps-plus customer | NBN Co is set to rebate retail service providers between $3 and $7 a month for every 250Mbps and above customer they have on their books from the start of next month.
The ‘superfast plus rebate’, which was first reported by CommsDay late la... |
| 10.06.2021 | NBN Co says 5G competition is challenging its monopoly status | NBN Co may seek changes to regulatory rules affecting its operations on the basis - or belief - that it can no longer be considered as “a monopoly provider of broadband services” in many market segments.
The network operator flagged in a di... |
| 07.06.2021 | NBN Co looks to enforce 'fair use' for fixed-line users | NBN Co will soon more clearly define what is “inappropriate or excessive” use on its fixed-line network - and what actions can be taken in response - almost a year after one ‘extreme’ user racked up 34TB of downloads in a matter of days.
Th... |
| 07.05.2021 | NBN Co sees large jump in 250Mbps, gigabit users | NBN Co has revealed that the number of customers on 250Mbps or up to gigabit broadband plans has surpassed half a million, a 20-fold or more increase since the end of last year.
The network operator revealed the impact of its ‘focus on fast... |
| 04.05.2021 | NBN Co already wants to upgrade some FTTC users to full fibre | NBN Co is set to upgrade parts of its fibre-to-the-curb (FTTC) footprint to full fibre, despite the technology already being touted as gigabit-capable.
The surprise announcement was revealed on Tuesday as an extension to the company’s multi... |
| 13.04.2021 | How NBN Co pieced its service assurance function back together | NBN Co transformed its service assurance function - the part of the company that deals with service faults and outages - under a program of work codenamed ‘Jigsaw’ that is already said to have delivered $100 million in ‘benefits’.
The trans... |
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| 10.02.2021 | NBN Co's Technology Choice online quote generator priced 43,000 upgrades in a fortnight | NBN Co’s instant online quote tool for its user-pays Technology Choice program spat out over 43,000 quotes in two weeks, 14 times more than were issued in the nearly six years prior.
The numbers put into perspective the viral effect that th... |
| 01.02.2021 | NBN Co to stop taking new HFC orders for 'several months' | NBN Co will stop taking new orders for hybrid fibre coaxial (HFC) services from tomorrow due to a global shortage of chips used in the network termination devices that are installed at customers’ premises.
The network builder said that the ... |
| 01.12.2020 | NBN Co opens instant quote generator for user-pays fibre upgrades | NBN Co has soft-launched the instant quote generator for its user-pays upgrade program Technology Choice.
The calculator, which appears to have launched early yesterday, offers users a “free quote and check [of] the build costs to upgrade t... |
| 15.10.2020 | Comms Minister tackles ACCC's NBN interventions with a 'statement of expectations' | Communications Minister Paul Fletcher has issued a ‘statement of expectations’ for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), particularly aimed at how it might treat NBN Co in future regulation.
The ACCC is an independent C... |
| 25.09.2020 | NBN Co shows first 'indicative' maps for 130 business fibre zones | NBN Co has now provided high-level boundary maps for the first 130 of a planned 240 business fibre zones across the country.
The maps, which are individual PDFs, have been attached over the list of place names on an earlier media statement ... |
| 23.09.2020 | NBN Co to provide "instant online quotes" for Technology Choice upgrades | NBN Co is set to make major changes to its user-pays upgrade scheme, removing application fees and providing “instant online quotes”.
The network builder’s new corporate plan reveals that the Technology Choice program is set to be revamped,... |
| 22.09.2020 | Govt ties business fibre upgrades to NBN Co's financial achievements | NBN Co’s ability to offer free fibre to more businesses is enabled by the company’s financial achievements, the government says, raising questions about what kind of financial performance is required before residential upgrades are offered.... |
| 01.09.2020 | NBN Co creates path to bring low-income users up to paid plans | NBN Co will continue to waive wholesale internet fees for qualifying low-income families with school-aged children until January next year, at which point it wants to move them onto discounted plans.
Low-income households received effective... |
| 20.08.2020 | NBN Co agrees to pay up for slow internet, poor service | NBN Co has agreed to pay daily rebates on slow, congested and underperforming services, as well as for missed appointments and service faults, in a drastic U-turn.
The changes could be in place as early as December when the network operator... |
| 19.08.2020 | Urban sprawl and job clusters: How working from home will reshape the nation | Leura, Blue Mountains, NSW.
For most of us, the experience of working from home this year has, on balance, been positive. Enough that it may well become the norm after the COVID-19 crisis ends.
But modelling by Victoria University’s Centre ... |
| 08.07.2020 | NBN Co's final build push includes 25k premises that fell through the cracks | NBN Co has revealed 25,000 premises in smaller new housing developments remain unconnected to the NBN after June 30 due to an apparent mix-up in the implementation of government policy.
The network builder provided an update earlier this we... |
| 18.06.2020 | Getting online a key driver for small business success | New research by NBN Co has found digitisation is a key driver for small business success. A recent survey suggests a behavioural shift to shopping online is driving a small business boom.
The Behavioural Change Survey of over 1000 Australia... |
| 15.06.2020 | NBN Co is testing an online appointment rescheduling tool | NBN Co will test a new online booking tool that allows end users to reschedule inconveniently-timed technician appointments.
The tool is designed to automate - and therefore bypass - a bottleneck in the process that emerged due to COVID-19,... |
| 20.04.2020 | NBN Co creates new basic Sky Muster Plus tier for low-income internet offer | NBN Co will put currently unconnected low-income families in its satellite footprint on a Sky Muster Plus service but with a much smaller metered data allowance than normal.
The network builder revealed a $150 million relief package on Frid... |
| 02.04.2020 | Telstra says COVID-19 leads customers to cancel technician visits | Telstra has revealed current and prospective NBN customers are cancelling technician appointments or blocking site entry over COVID-19 concerns.
The telco provided more detail of changes to its field work practices and the impact of COVID-1... |
| 10.02.2020 | NBN Co begins renegotiating its role in enterprise market | NBN Co has outlined the uncertainties it faces from no longer entering direct contracts with large enterprise and government users, including clawback mechanisms for fibre build costs.
The network builder had faced months of sustained indus... |
| 04.02.2020 | NBN Co has over 6000 'metro' premises in Sky Muster footprint | NBN Co has revealed over 6000 premises across six major metropolitan areas are now considered to fall within the Sky Muster satellite footprint.
The company produced the new figures in response to an initially-misconstrued freedom of inform... |
| 03.02.2020 | NBN Co to create a satellite-based 'disaster service' | NBN Co is set to use its response to Australia’s bushfire crisis to create a formal product offering that can offer affected areas “interim” internet services delivered via the Sky Muster satellites.
The company said it had “been approached... |
| 16.01.2020 | NBN Co reveals active Sky Muster users within 25km of city centres | NBN Co has revealed for the first time the number of active satellite users within a 25 kilometre radius of most major Australian capital cities.
The network builder disclosed the numbers under freedom of information (FoI) on December 18 la... |
| 02.01.2020 | NBN Co sends Road Muster truck to NSW south coast | NBN Co has sent one of its Road Muster trucks to a bushfire evacuation centre at Batemans Bay on the NSW south coast, offering free wi-fi and device charging for the community.
“The NBN Road Muster truck has arrived at the evacuation centre... |
| 19.12.2019 | NBN Co to trial 750/50Mbps as 'near gigabit' HFC tier | NBN Co is set to trial what is effectively a 750/50Mbps tier as a near gigabit plan for the hybrid-fibre coaxial (HFC) portion of its network.
The network builder released technical documentation [pdf] on Wednesday night pointing to progres... |
| 10.12.2019 | How NBN Co struck its bothersome business deals | NBN Co is continuing to assert itself in the enterprise and government market, recently signing on big four bank Westpac in addition to the likes of Woolworths, Coles and Australia Post.
The company has made direct approaches to upwards of ... |
| 26.11.2019 | NBN Co to temporarily cut 100Mbps prices starting 2020 | NBN Co is hoping to drum up interest in its forthcoming 100/20Mbps product by temporarily lowering the price of 100Mbps services in the New Year.
The company is planning to officially launch its new 100/20Mbps tier in May 2020, which will u... |
| 05.11.2019 | NBN Co runs into trouble on cheap gigabit plans | NBN Co’s plan to cut the price of 250Mbps and gigabit services looks to be coming unstuck as retailers grapple with the total cost of making them work, and how to market them safely to hybrid-fibre coaxial (HFC) users.
One of the the key pr... |
| 17.10.2019 | NBN Co downsizes wireless, satellite footprints by 130,000 'premises' | NBN Co has removed 130,449 non-existent “premises” from its fixed wireless and satellite footprints, the latest in a series of culls required as the company has cleaned up national address records it relies on.
The company’s weekly report [... |
| 17.10.2019 | NBN Co claims it will take Australia to 13th in the world for broadband | NBN Co claims Australia could rate as high as 13th in the world post NBN rollout for broadband - ahead of New Zealand and the UK - as long as its own measure of success is used.
However, its ability to achieve a ranking of 13th is also pred... |
| 14.10.2019 | NBN Co to revive HFC self-installation option | NBN Co is set to revive a self-installation option for the internal ‘NBN connection box’ in the HFC footprint, with up to a quarter of premises anticipated to be eligible.
The company is set to run a test of the self-installation option unt... |
| 11.10.2019 | NBN Co reinvents broadband speed test rankings | NBN Co will launch its own broadband speed ranking system - while “debunking” existing ones - in Amsterdam next week, escalating a long-running beef over third-party rankings that place Australia’s internet speeds alongside those of develop... |
| 09.10.2019 | NBN Co wants to fix your home wi-fi | NBN Co is hoping to add a “tool, firmware agent, or feature” to wi-fi gateways in selected people’s homes to collect telemetry that can help it troubleshoot the in-home portion of internet connections.
The trial is set to last between two a... |
| 08.10.2019 | Telstra cuts uplink speeds early in NBN fixed wireless shift | Internet providers are starting to move 151,000 users from the old NBN 50Mbps fixed wireless product to a new “best effort” service, but some customers will get more constrained uplink speeds from day one.
The removal of the current 25-50 (... |
| 08.10.2019 | NBN Co rezones businesses for cheaper pricing | NBN Co is hoping to encourage more businesses to switch to its enterprise products by lowering their connection costs from Wednesday this week.
The network builder said in a retail service provider (RSP) bulletin last week that it would upd... |
| 15.08.2019 | NBN Co's revenue per user creeps up to $46 a month | NBN Co recorded another $1 rise in its average revenue per user to finish at $46 as of June 30, edging it closer to its long-stated targets.
The network builder released its FY19 financial results overnight ahead of a briefing on Thursday m... |
| 05.08.2019 | Telemarketers overpromising the benefits of NBN? No way!? | In the least surprising news of the week, the Telecommunications Ombudsman has revealed it received over 1700 complaints from consumers who were misled by telemarketers over NBN services.
The Ombudsman’s latest report:“Misleading telemarket... |
| 04.07.2019 | ACCC unsure about NBN Co's 'Netflix tax' | The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says there is still insufficient detail to determine if NBN Co’s ‘Netflix tax’ proposal would break net neutrality or cause other problems necessitating intervention.
The missing pieces in ... |
| 26.06.2019 | NBN Co connects Parliament House with FTTB | NBN Co has brought Parliament House in Canberra onto its network with a fibre-to-the-basement installation.
The network builder said today that it had put an FTTB cabinet in the building’s basement that was fed with a “diverse fibre feed co... |
| 26.06.2019 | NBN Co puzzles over what price-sensitive users want | NBN Co is unconvinced price is the main reason it struggles to attract “price-sensitive” users, instead believing its product range and “education” of the market may also be at fault.
The company last week kicked off a wholesale pricing rev... |
| 07.06.2019 | NBN Co's Sky Muster Plus to start at $45 a month wholesale | NBN Co will price its forthcoming Sky Muster Plus satellite service that unmeters some traffic and can burst above 25Mbps at a minimum of $45 a month wholesale.
The network builder finally revealed its pricing [pdf] and plan structures [pdf... |
| 27.05.2019 | NBN Co to trial its first FTTN upgrade paths from June | NBN Co will begin a trial next month that will see 50 fibre-to-the-node users receive an upgrade to either fibre-to-the-curb (FTTC) or fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) technology.
The trial is the first under a brand new program of work that NB... |
| 23.05.2019 | NBN Co upgrades 'vast majority' of packet-dropping backhaul links | NBN Co has performed upgrades on “the vast majority” of 238 backhaul links identified last month as experiencing unacceptable levels of packet loss.
The network builder released more details of the metric it uses to determine what is and is... |
| 21.05.2019 | NBN Co targets July for bursty Sky Muster services | NBN Co is set to make its Sky Muster Plus satellite service - capable of bursting above 25Mbps - generally available in July following commercial trials that start this month.
Retail service provider SkyMesh disclosed the new timing for the... |
| 12.04.2019 | Telstra, TPG, Vocus and Optus say they aren't an NBN bottleneck | Telstra and Vocus, who are among a handful of telcos that supply dark fibre or backhaul services to and from NBN points of interconnect, say their services are not a bottleneck to the NBN user experience, and that any bottleneck sits with N... |
| 09.04.2019 | NBN Co's wireless congestion likely worse than reported | NBN Co may have under-reported levels of congestion on its fixed wireless network after revealing one in ten - or 250 - microwave and fibre transmission links suffer unacceptable levels of packet loss, and that this isn't captured in public... |
| 04.04.2019 | Can you afford it? Three things to consider when setting up a side hustle | Financial adviser Helen Baker. Source: Supplied.
Passion is making a lot of Australians do it. So’s boredom. And then there are those seeking a bit on the side because they want some fun. From virtual assistants and app developers to cake d... |
| 28.02.2019 | Massive NBN Co push to flip a million unserviceable premises | NBN Co is planning a massive cull of premises that are currently listed as unable to carry retail services between now and June, equivalent to almost one million homes and businesses.
If achieved, it would mean over 70 percent of the premis... |
| 21.01.2019 | NBN Co makes move to sell more 100Mbps-plus services | NBN Co will look to raise the number of 100Mbps-plus users on its network before the end of the financial year with a $160 rebate offered for each customer that retail service providers sign on.
The rebate, announced this afternoon, is only... |
| 21.12.2018 | NBN Co reveals daily duration of slow fixed wireless speeds | NBN Co has published its first fixed wireless congestion report, breaking down the number of hours a day that users see slow speeds.
The data is a new addition to NBN Co’s monthly progress dashboard and is one of the conditions of a recent ... |
| 12.12.2018 | NBN Co technicians missed 430 appointments a day | NBN Co’s technicians missed an average of 430 appointments a day in the year to June 30 this year.
The company revealed today that while 91 percent of appointments during the last financial year “were not missed, the total number of missed ... |
| 31.10.2018 | NBN Co staff reap $42.7m in bonus payments | NBN Co’s senior executives shared $1.96 million in bonuses in the last financial year, despite a $2 billion cost blowout on the project and rollout delays.
The company’s annual report [pdf] reveals bonuses across NBN Co’s total employee bas... |
| 30.10.2018 | NBN Co open for enterprise business | NBN Co has finally launched its incursion into the enterprise market after a year spent working with “a number of service providers” honing the new wholesale product.
The company also launched a trial of premium business-grade appointments,... |
| 10.10.2018 | NBN Co explores 'FTTN in a box' for emergency network fixes | NBN Co is refitting a trailer previously used for community education as a “mobile command centre” and exploring the feasibility of “fibre-to-the-node-in-a-box” for use in emergencies.
The company today laid out its emergency management pre... |
| 28.08.2018 | NBN Co's FTTC rollout drives up connections in limbo | NBN Co is seeing higher proportions of premises being included in its weekly rollout numbers that can’t support a retail service, with fibre-to-the-curb largely behind the increase.
In six of the past seven weeks - since the new financial y... |
| 05.07.2018 | Why NBN's fixed wireless users won't notice new design rules | Fixed wireless NBN users are unlikely to see much change from revised network design rules published earlier this week.
The rules [pdf], first spotted by NBN watcher Ken Tsang, lower the “maximum number of connected premises” in a wireless ... |
| 27.06.2018 | NBN Co shows upgrade path thinking for almost all access techs | NBN Co has laid out a detailed roadmap and timeline of options to upgrade almost all last-mile access technologies barring fibre-to-the-node and satellite over the next five years.
The roadmap shows where NBN Co’s chief technology office’s ... |
| 24.06.2018 | Labor wants to fine NBN Co for bad service | The federal opposition wants to create its own NBN service guarantee that would see NBN Co fined every time contractors missed appointments or made installation errors.
Labor leader Bill Shorten and shadow minister for communications Michel... |
| 01.06.2018 | NBN retail prices are starting to rise | Optus is the first major retailer to raise the price of its entry-level NBN services, a decision the rest of the industry is likely to have to confront over coming months.
The move by Optus, made a week ago, sees its most basic unbundled NB... |
| 27.04.2018 | NBN Co chief gets frank about copper's problems | NBN Co’s outgoing CEO Bill Morrow has issued a frank assessment of how increased use of copper in the network has caused both the company and its customers problems.
Morrow stopped short of criticising the technology switch from majority fi... |
