Nokia’s Oceania head jumps to NBN
Nokia’s managing director for Oceania, Ray Owen, will leave the company to take up an executive position at NBN.
Nokia’s managing director for Oceania, Ray Owen, will leave the company to take up an executive position at NBN.
NBN CEO Bill Morrow has rejected the idea of a write-down by the government of all or part of its investment in the National Broadband Network.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority will scrutinise end user experience on the National Broadband Network, with the ACMA to use powers granted to it by the Telecommunications Act to gather information from a range of participants in the NBN market.
Vodafone will offer customers of its fixed-line National Broadband Network services access to 4G mobile broadband while they wait for service activation and during faults.
Vodafone has called for significant changes to NBN’s wholesale pricing model, with the telco’s chief strategy officer, Dan Lloyd, arguing that the key variable cost associated with National Broadband Network connections — the Connectivity Virtual Circuit (CVC) charge — should be halved.
NBN CEO Bill Morrow has cited a “land grab” by retail service providers (RSPs) as a key factor in poor end user experience on the National Broadband Network.
Shadow communications minister Michelle Rowland has filed a freedom of information request seeking access to NBN’s database of estimated theoretical maximum speeds for households.
Telstra does not support the government’s Regional Broadband Scheme (RBS) in its current form, arguing that the levy is too broad in scope.
NBN has revealed that as of 20 June, the company has purchased $177.1 million worth of copper materials.
Construction of the National Broadband Network has reached the halfway point, with NBN indicating it believes it is on track to meet its 2020 goal of completing the
NBN has announced it will boost the data quotas available to end users on its Sky Muster satellite service.
The government has introduced legislation to implement the so-called ‘NBN tax’: A levy on superfast broadband services that will help subsidise services on the National Broadband Network that would not otherwise be commercially viable.
Key fibre links on NBN’s 60,000 kilometre transit network will see a capacity boost after NBN rolls out new technology from Coriant.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has begun seeking volunteers to participate in its broadband performance monitoring program.
NBN has begun the roll out of fibre to the curb (FTTC), the company announced this morning.