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If you’re an ICT professional, NBN Co want you to register for their new ICT channel. This channel aims to provide technology consultants and vendors with access critical information and support when helping businesses connect to the nbn access network. Research (conducted by NBN Co) reveals almost 40% of...
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The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission has published for the first time, broadband performance data about Australia’s internet service providers. Australian’s internet speed on the NBN in theory should be the same regardless of the provider you choose, but in reality, it differs, a lot. The data shows highlights...
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Australians are all too familiar with the ‘challenges’ associated with the rollout of the national broadband network and NBN Co today have announced a change to address customer experiences. The company is launching a new monthly progress report to allow Australians to track its performance in improving services delivered on...
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It has been revealed that Australia’s PM Malcolm Turnbull has some of the fastest NBN connected to his mansion in Point Piper. He also organised the hookup at Kirribilli and now has a 100/40Mbps connection. While many online are outraged about jumping the cue to have his properties connected. Personally...
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NBN covers both consumers and business and today’s announcement by NBN Co is firmly targeted towards Australian businesses. A new trial has commenced which will refine the design and construction of a new wholesale direct fibre product. nbn Enterprise Ethernet is designed to deliver a wholesale high-bandwidth product that...
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NB The ABC have got their hands on some Government Cabinet documents that were intended to be private. While the documents span a number of industries, the most relevant to our audience are ones that cover the NBN. To publicise the documents, ABC built a dedicated website – http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-31/cabinet-files-reveal-inner-government-decisions/9168442...
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Time for a good news story about the NBN. Rural students in the Northern Territory are the first to access nbn Sky Muster satellite service multicast technology. For students trying to learn, access to the internet is essential to their education and ultimately will be a key determinant in...
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NBN Co have announced dramatic changes to the way the NBN is charged at the wholesale level. These changes are a firm smack down for the RSPs that have oversold their networks which unsurprisingly has created end-user dramas across the country. These new changes will see, for the first time,...
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This morning nbn revealed it is halting the rollout of the HFC portion of the NBN rollout. While the project has many issues, it seems HFC connectivity is their biggest right now and they need to take stock of what’s causing the issues and resolve before simply powering ahead...
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If you missed the ABC’s Four Corners special last night, its now available on ABC iView to watch on demand. After watching the 42 minute program, I’m not sure we learnt much. Perhaps the most useful information was at the end where NBN CEO Bill Morrow says, As a...
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Australia’s National Broadband is powering along and has now surpassed another milestone of 3 million premises, 3,024,650 to be exact, are now activated. The data comes from the latest update to the Weekly Progress Report and shows 6,507,756 premesis that are ready for service. That number of activations represents 46% uptake...
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Australia’s part-way through rolling out their National Broadband Network and some struggled to articulate why we need high-speed broadband, particularly FTTP and spending billions of dollars of tax payer’s money. Last night I downloaded Forza Motorsport 7. That game is massive, on the PC and eventually on the Xbox...
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Most of the conversation we have about the NBN in Australia relates to the consumer market. From the start of the project it was always clear some of the biggest benefit would be to business, but until now that hasn’t really been a focus of the project. Today that...
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Whatever you think about Australia’s NBN project, it is bringing in some serious dollars. In the 2017 Financial Year update, nbn have announced that they’ve achieved an important milestone of A$1 Billion in revenue, a figure that by 2020, they believe will reach A$5 billion. The project costs are...
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Speedtest.net is the website and mobile app millions of people use to test their internet speeds. With so much data from across the globe, Speedtest are well positioned to create a comparison between countries to understand who’s winning and who’s loosing. Speedtest are now releasing a Global Index of...
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The NBN project has recently been taking plenty of heat from unhappy customers frustrated with connection issue finger-pointing between nbn and RSPs. Today Vodafone Australia is making a substantial effort to mitigate those connection issues for new NBN customers by offering complimentary internet access via the company’s mobile network...
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Remember MyRepublic’s Gigatown competition? It was the chance to connect a town to the NBN at Gigabit speeds. The winner was Wollongong and the prize winner, among other Wollongong residents are now connected and enjoying the uber fast speed.. insert jealously here. Meet Fletcher Thompson (@SketchyFletchy), the lucky winner who...
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The NBN has passed a major milestone today, it has officially passed the half way mark. This is a massive achievement in a project that took a long time to ramp up, its certainly hitting its strides with 1 in 2 Australians now able to connect. There are now...
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nbn have announced a substantial improvement to the Sky Muster satellite service. The 240,000 homes and businesses in regional and rural Australia serviced by Sky Muster will have the ability to increase their maximum monthly data limit and will receive (up to) 50% faster download rates. The new nbn Sky...
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nbn have been running a test in Melbourne using the DOCSIS 3.1 networking standard and have achieved download speeds of 984Mbps and around 100Mbps up. This speed was done using a Hybrid-fibre coaxial (HFC) setup in the lab and may get you excited about future speeds achievable at your...
If you’re an ICT professional, NBN Co want you to register for their new ICT channel. This channel aims to provide technology consultants and vendors with access critical information and support when helping businesses connect to the nbn access network. Research (conducted by NBN Co) reveals almost 40% of...
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission has published for the first time, broadband performance data about Australia’s internet service providers. Australian’s internet speed on the NBN in theory should be the same regardless of the provider you choose, but in reality, it differs, a lot. The data shows highlights...
Australians are all too familiar with the ‘challenges’ associated with the rollout of the national broadband network and NBN Co today have announced a change to address customer experiences. The company is launching a new monthly progress report to allow Australians to track its performance in improving services delivered on...
It has been revealed that Australia’s PM Malcolm Turnbull has some of the fastest NBN connected to his mansion in Point Piper. He also organised the hookup at Kirribilli and now has a 100/40Mbps connection. While many online are outraged about jumping the cue to have his properties connected. Personally...
NBN covers both consumers and business and today’s announcement by NBN Co is firmly targeted towards Australian businesses. A new trial has commenced which will refine the design and construction of a new wholesale direct fibre product. nbn Enterprise Ethernet is designed to deliver a wholesale high-bandwidth product that...
NB The ABC have got their hands on some Government Cabinet documents that were intended to be private. While the documents span a number of industries, the most relevant to our audience are ones that cover the NBN. To publicise the documents, ABC built a dedicated website – http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-31/cabinet-files-reveal-inner-government-decisions/9168442...
Time for a good news story about the NBN. Rural students in the Northern Territory are the first to access nbn Sky Muster satellite service multicast technology. For students trying to learn, access to the internet is essential to their education and ultimately will be a key determinant in...
NBN Co have announced dramatic changes to the way the NBN is charged at the wholesale level. These changes are a firm smack down for the RSPs that have oversold their networks which unsurprisingly has created end-user dramas across the country. These new changes will see, for the first time,...
This morning nbn revealed it is halting the rollout of the HFC portion of the NBN rollout. While the project has many issues, it seems HFC connectivity is their biggest right now and they need to take stock of what’s causing the issues and resolve before simply powering ahead...
If you missed the ABC’s Four Corners special last night, its now available on ABC iView to watch on demand. After watching the 42 minute program, I’m not sure we learnt much. Perhaps the most useful information was at the end where NBN CEO Bill Morrow says, As a...
Australia’s National Broadband is powering along and has now surpassed another milestone of 3 million premises, 3,024,650 to be exact, are now activated. The data comes from the latest update to the Weekly Progress Report and shows 6,507,756 premesis that are ready for service. That number of activations represents 46% uptake...
Australia’s part-way through rolling out their National Broadband Network and some struggled to articulate why we need high-speed broadband, particularly FTTP and spending billions of dollars of tax payer’s money. Last night I downloaded Forza Motorsport 7. That game is massive, on the PC and eventually on the Xbox...
Most of the conversation we have about the NBN in Australia relates to the consumer market. From the start of the project it was always clear some of the biggest benefit would be to business, but until now that hasn’t really been a focus of the project. Today that...
Whatever you think about Australia’s NBN project, it is bringing in some serious dollars. In the 2017 Financial Year update, nbn have announced that they’ve achieved an important milestone of A$1 Billion in revenue, a figure that by 2020, they believe will reach A$5 billion. The project costs are...
Speedtest.net is the website and mobile app millions of people use to test their internet speeds. With so much data from across the globe, Speedtest are well positioned to create a comparison between countries to understand who’s winning and who’s loosing. Speedtest are now releasing a Global Index of...
The NBN project has recently been taking plenty of heat from unhappy customers frustrated with connection issue finger-pointing between nbn and RSPs. Today Vodafone Australia is making a substantial effort to mitigate those connection issues for new NBN customers by offering complimentary internet access via the company’s mobile network...
Remember MyRepublic’s Gigatown competition? It was the chance to connect a town to the NBN at Gigabit speeds. The winner was Wollongong and the prize winner, among other Wollongong residents are now connected and enjoying the uber fast speed.. insert jealously here. Meet Fletcher Thompson (@SketchyFletchy), the lucky winner who...
The NBN has passed a major milestone today, it has officially passed the half way mark. This is a massive achievement in a project that took a long time to ramp up, its certainly hitting its strides with 1 in 2 Australians now able to connect. There are now...
nbn have announced a substantial improvement to the Sky Muster satellite service. The 240,000 homes and businesses in regional and rural Australia serviced by Sky Muster will have the ability to increase their maximum monthly data limit and will receive (up to) 50% faster download rates. The new nbn Sky...
nbn have been running a test in Melbourne using the DOCSIS 3.1 networking standard and have achieved download speeds of 984Mbps and around 100Mbps up. This speed was done using a Hybrid-fibre coaxial (HFC) setup in the lab and may get you excited about future speeds achievable at your...
