NBN Co launches regional business unit, pushes enterprise satellite services
A new NBN Co business unit will be solely focused on technologies used to connect regional and remote communities, the company said today.
A new NBN Co business unit will be solely focused on technologies used to connect regional and remote communities, the company said today.
NBN Co wants Australia’s spectrum regulator to leave open the option of the government-owned company acquiring licences for so-called mmWave frequencies to help combat the capacity squeeze of its fixed wireless service.
NBN Co’s chief executive Stephen Rue has confirmed that the network operator’s publicly released fixed wireless performance data may not reflect the congestion encountered by end users on the NBN.
Optus CEO Allen Lew has called for the government and NBN Co to consider 5G wireless technology as an upgrade path for those parts of the National Broadband Network where performance is limited by the use of copper wiring, and as an alternative to laying additional fibre to households to deliver faster speeds.
NBN Co has released details of its plan to ditch one of its wireless wholesale speed tiers, replacing it with a new product that is expected to eventually support download speeds of up to 75 megabits per second (Mbps) in some circumstances.