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• NBN Co renews Service Stream greenfields contract

  NBN Co construction partner Service Stream has inked a contract renewal with the government-owned company charged with rolling out the National Broadband Network.

• Budget 2014 - NBN funding goes private after FY2017

  The National Broadband Network will have to rely on private funding after the 2017-18 financial year, according to the 2014-15 budget released last night.

• NBN Co buys VDSL2 vectoring gear from Alcatel-Lucent

  Alcatel-Lucent has revealed NBN Co is one of the customers for its VDSL2 vectoring products used for fibre to the node (FTTN).

• NBN Co will need to bring on 100,000 premises per month to meet 2020 deadline: Switkowski

  NBN Co chairman Ziggy Switkowski has conceded that NBN Co will need to bring on 100,000 premises a month every month for the next eight years to meet its 2020 deadline for the National Broadband Network (NBN) rollout.

• NBN Co to ramp up fixed wireless

  NBN Co's current plan to deliver broadband services to the 7-8 per cent of population outside the NBN fixed line footprint woefully underestimates the demand in those areas according to a report released today by the government-owned company.

• NBN Co continues telco poaching streak

  NBN Co has poached Karina Keisler from Vodafone to head up corporate affairs for the government-owned corporation charged with rolling out the National Broadband Network.

• Conroy asks why Vertigan panel bothering with NBN analysis

  A National Broadband Network review panel will finish its cost-benefit analysis comparing different NBN approaches even though the government has already decided to go ahead with a multi-technology model, said the panel’s chair, Michael Vertigan.

• Victorian government backs slower NBN

  The Victorian government has indicated it supports its federal Coalition counterparts' changes to the rollout of the National Broadband Network, including NBN Co adopting a multi-technology mix that will make significant use of fibre-to-the-node and HFC.

• Telcos seek to strengthen NBN Co wholesale restrictions

  Major telcos and Internet service providers including Telstra, Optus, Vodafone and iiNet have pushed for clarity on some aspects of NBN Co’s wholesale role and the tightening of restrictions that prevent the company rolling out the National Broadband Network from supplying services to end users.

• NBN Co seeks ‘early resolution’ of TPG fibre threat

  The company in charge of rolling out and operating the National Broadband Network has called for a speedy resolution to the issue of infrastructure-based competition.

• TPG should pay rural levy for each FTTB service: NBN Co

  NBN Co has proposed that TPG and other infrastructure competitors cross-subsidise the rural National Broadband Network build when they cherry-pick high value customers in urban areas with fibre-to-the-basement.

• NBN Co hits 105Mbps in limited FTTN trial

  NBN Co achieved 105 megabits per second download speeds in a of test of fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) technology at a shop on the New South Wales Central Coast.

• It's war: NBN Co responds to TPG's FTTB rollout

  NBN Co's new chief executive, Bill Morrow, has warned that buildings that sign up for TPG's new fibre-to-the-basement rollout run the risk of being stuck with a single retail service provider.

• EscapeNet enjoys life as an indie ISP

  Australia's Internet service provider market has gone through an extended period of consolidation.

• TPG pushes unlimited NBN fibre plans

  Internet service provider TPG has launched its National Broadband Network plans, with all six of the offers including unlimited data quotas. The plans are TPG's first NBN offerings; the ISP foreshadowed offering an unlimited NBN data plan in 2012, but it hasn't started to sign up customers for NBN services until now.