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4 Sep 2020

Friday round-up

NBN Co extends additional capacity offer for third time ARNnet

NBN Co has announced the third extension to its offer to provide internet retailers with additional data capacity at no extra cost until the new end date of 30 November.

2 Sep 2020

Wednesday round-up

Some Of Aussie Broadband’s NBN Plans Are Going Up In Price press-start.com.au

Some of Aussie Broadband’s NBN plans have gone up in price, with existing customers set to be moved onto other plans at the same price point in November.

1 Sep 2020

Tuesday round-up

NBN Co creates path to bring low-income users up to paid plans iTNews

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.

NBN Co faces 'close monitoring' in new developments iTNews

NBN Co faces a period of “close monitoring” by the government over lingering concerns that the company could abuse more flexible rules in how it competes for work in new housing developments.

Telstra, Optus, TPG and Dodo left some customers 'high and dry' in NBN migration iTNews

Telstra, Optus, TPG and Dodo collectively left more than 1500 customers without a working internet service over a three-month period during the NBN migration, an investigation has concluded.

31 Aug 2020

Monday round-up

NBN Co signs Service Stream, Downer EDI to new field services deals iTNews

NBN Co has struck field services agreements worth hundreds of millions of dollars with Downer EDI and Service Stream for the next four - and potentially up to eight - years.

NBN Co says 140,000 FTTN users still can't get 25Mbps speeds iTNews

NBN Co has revealed there are still almost 140,000 fibre-to-the-node premises that can’t hit the mandated minimum peak speed of 25Mbps.

Amaysim goes to market as Optus network deal approaches expiry iTNews

Amaysim is testing the market for its next network services agreement as its current wholesale arrangement with Optus comes up for expiry in mid-2022.

CenturyLink outage led to a 3.5% drop in global web traffic ZDNet

US internet service provider CenturyLink has suffered a major technical outage on Sunday after a misconfiguration in one of its data centers created havoc all over the internet.

28 Aug 2020

Friday round-up

Govt names 17 broadband providers to join NBN Co in national coverage regime ARNnet

CipherTel, Interphone and OptiComm are among 17 broadband providers freshly designated by the federal government as Statutory Infrastructure Providers (SIPs) under the government’s national SIP regime.

27 Aug 2020

Thursday round-up

Why Your NBN Speeds are Slower Than What You Pay For Gizmodo

NBN speed tiers seems pretty straight forward. The higher the number the faster the connection. But what your plan says you should get isn’t what you actually receive in the real world. Here’s why.

Tens of thousands of Australians still waiting for NBN connection ABC Online

George Tulloch has been waiting four years for the NBN to come to his recording studio in inner Sydney, but after years of letters and complaints he is giving up.

25 Aug 2020

Tuesday round-up

Why NBN is so expensive macrobusiness.com.au

Techradar has reported that new cheaper NBN plans could be on their way before Christmas following consultation between NBN Co and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)

21 Aug 2020

Friday round-up

TPG Telecom adds 550 sites to 5G network rollout plan iTNews

TPG Telecom is planning to ramp up its 5G rollout over the next 12 months, with more than 85 percent of the population in the country’s six largest cities expected to be served by the end of 2021.

20 Aug 2020

Thursday round-up

Optus opts for crowd-sourced mapping of service problems iTNews

Optus has added a new crowd-sourced tool that for the first time allows customers to provide network feedback to the telco and log service faults.

NBN is already obsolete macrobusiness.com.au

Australia’s $51 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) is not even finished but already requires upgrades to compete against new emerging technologies, such as 5G, at an additional cost of $7 billion:

NBN Co agrees to pay up for slow internet, poor service iTNews

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.

This NBN ‘speed test’ could cost you thousands gympietimes.com.au

Vulnerable Australians are being swindled out of thousands by "insidious" scammers posing as the NBN and asking customers to do a speed test.