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• Execs out the door as Morrow begins NBN Co transformation

  The chief financial officer, chief technology officer and head of corporate and commercial are all leaving NBN Co, the company charged with rolling out the National Broadband Network.

• NBN: Good-bye FTTP, we hardly knew ye

  The Coalition government today signed the death warrant for the roll out of a predominantly fibre-to-the-premises-based National Broadband Network.

• Labor urges end to TPG FTTB rollout

  The government must stop TPG from poaching high value customers from the NBN, said Communications Shadow Minister Jason Clare at the CommsDay conference today in Sydney.

• NBN Co launches satellite subsidy scheme

  NBN Co will launch a subsidy scheme to enable the 9000-strong list of users waiting for a chance to receive Internet access through the National Broadband Network Interim Satellite Service to instead access commercial satellite services.

• Committee slams NBN strategic review; Coalition slams committee

  An interim report of the Senate Select Committee on the National Broadband Network issued yesterday has expressed "significant concerns with the accuracy and reliability" of the strategic review process that led to NBN Co adopting the multi-technology mix model for the network favoured by the Coalition.

• NBN Co to bump satellite capacity, implement 'fair use' policy

  Communications minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced that NBN Co will bump capacity on the Interim Satellite Service. "[A]t the cost of $18.4 million the NBN Co will upgrade the current capacity to all users on the satellite service by one third," the minister said in question time today.

• Cost-benefit panel consults on NBN Co restrictions

  The panel appointed by the federal government to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of the National Broadband Network has launched two-part public consultation that examines the regulatory framework in which NBN Co carries out its operations.

• NBN: Concern over medical alarms as copper switch-off approaches

  NBN Co this morning launched a register to track personal medical alarms that may be affected by the switch-off of the copper network in areas where the National Broadband Network has been rolled out.

• ACCAN flags concerns about NBN complaints

  The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network is concerned about the number of telecommunications-related complaints in current NBN rollout sites.

• FTTB: TPG puts case for competing with NBN infrastructure

  Internet service provider TPG has put the case for allowing it to build infrastructure that would compete with NBN Co in a submission to the NBN Panel of Experts — also known as the Vertigan review panel, after its chair Michael Vertigan.
  

• Vodafone survey backs NBN mobile infrastructure

  Vodafone says a poll conducted by Empirica Research on behalf of the telco reflects popular support for using National Broadband Network infrastructure to boost mobile coverage in regional Australia.

• Government to crowdsource broadband speed, quality data

  The Department of Communications is planning to update the MyBroadband website to add the ability to directly gather data about the speed and quality of Australian broadband services.
  

• NBN: Productivity Commission criticises lack of cost benefit analysis

  The initial decision to proceed with constructing the National Broadband Network without a "thorough analysis of its costs and benefits" is an example of "inadequate project selection leading to costly outcomes for some users and taxpayers in general," argues a two-volume draft report on public infrastructure issued by the Productivity Commission today.

• Government releases 'MyBroadband' data (kind of)

  The Department of Communications has released the data used to generate the MyBroadband website.
  

• NBN transit network hits terabit speeds in Toowoomba trial

  A trial conducted earlier this month by NBN Co and optical transmission equipment supplier Coriant reached speeds of 1 terabit per second over a 1066 kilometre loop of fibre in Toowoomba, Queensland. The trial on NBN Co’s transit network demonstrated a 35 per cent improvement in spectral efficiency, according to Coriant.