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    NBN Upgrade: I just moved to Superloop’s 1Gbps plan for $99pm

    After many happy years with Aussie Broadband, this week I switched internet providers to Superloop. Like many Australians, I enjoy connectivity through Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) which theoretically supports speeds up to 1Gbps. Today, I'm connected to a 1Gbps service and getting around 932 Mbps down and 45Mbps up. When the National Broadband Network was rolled out to Australia, one of the fundamental shifts was the...

    My internet with AussieBB got cheaper today thanks to NBN wholesale changes, did yours?

    For the past few years, I've been enjoying FTTP on NBN with Aussie Broadband. I've been very happy with their reliable and fast service, while it certainly isn't the cheapest provider. Today my internet got cheaper with a surprise email from Aussie Broadband informing customers of an upcoming plan change. The email confirms our current NBN plan, the Home Fast plan which offers 100Mbps...

    Telstra partners with SpaceX’s Starlink to deliver better connectivity to Rural and Remote Australia

    Australia is massive, the sixth largest country in the world by land area, with a total area of 7,682,300 square kilometers. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), as of June 2022, the population distribution was 53.1% in Metro areas, 39.4% in Regional areas and 7.5% in Remote areas. For those who live outside the cities, their telecommunication infrastructure is more complex, often there's...

    Here is the full list of suburbs nbn is upgrading to FTTP between now and 2025

    The National Broadband Network (NBN) was a project designed to upgrade Australia's internet infrastructure, aiming to provide high-speed broadband access to all Australians. The NBN was originally scoped to connect 93% using the best technology, Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP), capable of 1Gbps. Unfortunately due to political interference, the project was changed to use more of a mix of technologies This included FTTP but relied heavily on...

    Gigabit NBN to 90% of Australians under Albanese Labor Government

    The NBN has once again emerged at another election. As part of the Australian Labor Party's policy platform for the 2022 Federal Election, the NBN will form a key policy difference between them and the Liberal/National Coalition. If Anthony Albense and his team are elected to Government on Saturday, May 21st, they will work to upgrade the NBN to increase the internet speed of...

    Telstra’s 5G Home and Business internet has a massive average download speed of 378Mbps, 1TB data for $85pm

    Telstra has announced the official launch of their 5G Home & Business Internet service, which brings serious competition to the offerings by the NBN. Telstra says that users should expect a ridiculously fast, average typical download speed of 378Mbps during the busy 7pm – 11pm period (typical evening speeds can range between 50Mbps – 600Mbps). Unlike the 5G mobile plans that vary quite a lot in capacity and price, there is a very simple, single plan on offer here, with...

    Hands-on with Starlink by SpaceX, a real competitor for NBN

    When Elon Musk announced he'd put thousands of satellites in the sky and deliver internet to the world, it sounded like a far-fetched pipe dream that would never come true. Here we are in 2021 and Starlink is available in many parts of the world (US, Canada, including Australia. Given Australia's challenging geography of a heavily distributed population across a large geographic area,...

    NBN phase 2 is here: 900,000 more homes and businesses getting FTTP by 2023

    When the NBN was first announced, the plan was to roll fibre connections to 93% of the population. Over time the project got politicised and after a change of Government, got rationed down to connect far less of the country via fibre, instead using a combination of FTTdp FTTN, Fixed Wireless and Satellite services. Well after enabling almost 12 million premises to connect to...

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    NBN Upgrade: I just moved to Superloop’s 1Gbps plan for $99pm

    After many happy years with Aussie Broadband, this week I switched internet providers to Superloop. Like many Australians, I enjoy connectivity through Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP)...

    My internet with AussieBB got cheaper today thanks to NBN wholesale changes, did yours?

    For the past few years, I've been enjoying FTTP on NBN with Aussie Broadband. I've been very happy with their reliable and fast service,...

    Telstra partners with SpaceX’s Starlink to deliver better connectivity to Rural and Remote Australia

    Australia is massive, the sixth largest country in the world by land area, with a total area of 7,682,300 square kilometers. According to the...
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