4 Sep 2020
Friday round-up
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 is testing the market for its next network services agreement as its current wholesale arrangement with Optus comes up for expiry in mid-2022.
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
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
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.
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
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 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 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.
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 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.
Vulnerable Australians are being swindled out of thousands by "insidious" scammers posing as the NBN and asking customers to do a speed test.