NBN business case, regional rollout to be scrutinised
Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on the National Broadband Network will put NBN’s financial forecasts under the microscope as one of two new inquiries.
Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on the National Broadband Network will put NBN’s financial forecasts under the microscope as one of two new inquiries.
Telstra’s CEO, Andrew Penn, says the company is in the process of moving most of its NBN fixed-line customers to the 50/20Mbps speed tier.
NBN CEO Bill Morrow says the company is not yet ready to reveal a timeline for completing work on the hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC) portion of its network address performance issues.
NBN has announced a surge in end users on its 50 megabits per second speed tier, with the company today revealing that it expects 1.1 million additional end-users to have 50/20Mbps broadband services by June.
New figures released by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission reveal a jump in the National Broadband Network capacity for end users being purchased by retail service providers (RSP).
NBN has announced that Paul Tyler will lead its business sales and marketing division.
NBN has partnered with Telstra, TPG and Vocus for a design and construction trial ahead of the company’s launch later this year of its Enterprise Ethernet offering.
Speedcast has won a 10-year contract to deliver enterprise-grade satellite services for NBN.
A document outlining the key points for the Rudd government’s 2009 announcement that it would fund the rollout of a national fibre network and a second document outlining a strategy for negotiating with Telstra and other potential investors in NBN Co are among those released by the ABC.
Optus’ wholesale business has launched an NBN voice service delivered over Ethernet.
The federal government has reiterated that it is not appropriate to extend the so-called ‘NBN tax’ to include mobile broadband services “at this time”.
The government has rejected a parliamentary inquiry’s recommendation that NBN be directed to complete as much as possible of the remaining fixed-line portion of the National Broadband Network using fibre to the curb (FTTC) or fibre to the premises (FTTP).
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) will introduce new rules intended to provide better protections for consumers during the migration to the National Broadband Network.
TPG will offer compensation to almost 8000 of its customers who purchased fibre to the node (FTTN) and fibre to the building (FTTB) National Broadband Network services.
Retail service providers have reported a number of concerns to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission over NBN’s Wholesale Broadband Agreement (WBA), which sets out the contractual terms on which NBN supplies services to RSPs.