National Broadband Network

As losses narrow, nbn™ says business will drive growth in ARPU (that'll be how much it extracts from each punter)

Oz broadband network-builder quarterly revenue bests half-billion mark

Networks20 Nov 2018 | 4

NBN satellite user waiting for extra gigabytes? Keep waiting

Relief is coming next year, CEO promises

Networks13 Nov 2018 | 6

The great and powerful Oz (broadband network): Revs rise, but nbn™'s exec bonuses don't

And competition regulator sees 5G clouds on the horizon

Networks01 Nov 2018 | 11

Aussies: Want gigabit symmetrical NBN? We've got good news and bad news

It's coming, but only for enterprise customers

Networks30 Oct 2018 | 2

Australia's national broadband bet shirk: NBN write-down not on the cards – chairman

Switkowski: Write-downs are a financial, not political, decision

Legal24 Oct 2018 | 4

Incoming NBN boss inheriting regulation, service headaches

Is there poison in the chalice that Stephen will Rue?

Legal23 Aug 2018 | 5

Better late than never: nbn™ DOCSIS 3.1 upgrade starts

Where? Not saying, but it'll be nearly everywhere by 2020. Pinky-promise

Networks07 Aug 2018 | 11

Telstra reveals radical restructure plan

Tel-colossus to shed 8,000 jobs, create new infrastructure company

On-Prem20 Jun 2018 | 9

nbn™ CEO didn't mean to offend gamers, just brand them unwelcome bandwidth-hogs

Actually, it's about ethics in network concurrency

Networks06 Jun 2018 | 33

nbn™ ponders a gamers' gate to throttle heavy wireless users

Using your service as advertised? How dare you!

Networks04 Jun 2018 | 21

Waiting for 100 Mbps NBN on wireless? Errr, umm, sorry about that

nbn™'s Norwegian Blue was dead after all

Legal25 May 2018 | 19

ACCC grabs pliers, extracts AU$1.5 million from Optus

Carrier misled customers over NBN, Federal Court finds

Legal23 May 2018 | 3

nbn™ isn’t fixing HFC, it’s ‘optimising’ it

And seemingly just-about rebuilding it, too

Networks16 May 2018 | 23

nbn™ scoreboard: miracle needed to hit FY 18 construction targets

Fastest-ever adoption and connection rate needed, but at least finances look decent

Networks15 May 2018 | 12

NBN dragging Telstra down, carrier wants 5G to haul it up again

CEO blames 'nationalisation' for limp financials, like The Simpsons can't defend ARPU

On-Prem15 May 2018 | 4

FTTP NBN gone from draft Australian Labor Party policy platform

new doc mostly mentions carbon fibre, natural fibre … not so much FTTP

Networks30 Apr 2018 | 17

nbn™ CEO blames copper for performance problems

Bill Morrow says what Australia's been thinking for about a decade

Legal29 Apr 2018 | 11

nbn™ CEO pleads with staff to control costs in ‘seeya later’ letter

Teases research showing the NBN is creating jobs, especially for self-employed women

Networks04 Apr 2018 | 9

nbn™ loses its head: CEO Bill Morrow bails

With the build mostly done, he reckons it’s the right to time to hand over to a new leader

Networks04 Apr 2018 | 7

Dodo, Commander, iPrimus are very sorry about 100/40 NBN plans

Regulator secured refund/exit deals for 16,000 unhappy customers this week

Networks23 Mar 2018 | 3

nbn™ gives ISDN, Frame Relay and Ethernet Lite a stay of execution

Users will be permitted to run them in parallel with NBN connections, but they've been marked for extinction

Networks07 Mar 2018 | 7

nbn™'s HFC fix will see connections tested from March to July 2018

Writes to residents to announce on-site inspection

Networks18 Feb 2018 | 5

nbn™ scoreboard: our new way to look at Australia's national broadband network

The numbers, not the spin, from nbn™'s half-year presentation and corporate plan

Networks13 Feb 2018 | 25

nbn 's CVC discounts worked - ISPs splashed for 38 per cent more bandwidth

Still just 1.53 Mbps per user, so let's not let that distract us from the ongoing build bungles

Networks08 Feb 2018 | 10

To hack Australia and learn its secrets, buy second-hand furniture

Secret cabinet documents found in filing cabinet sold because someone lost the key

Security31 Jan 2018 | 52

Australia won't prescribe its national broadband network a high-fibre diet

Nobody gets 100 Mbps, so nobody buys 100 Mbps, so nobody needs 100 Mbps. QED

Legal17 Jan 2018 | 27

Australia's future technology headlines … for 2019!

Predictions are like armpits, everybody has at least two and they often stink

Bootnotes21 Dec 2017 | 15

TPG joins the NBN speed-fail refund club

100 Mbps? Tell 'em they're dreaming, son

Legal21 Dec 2017 | 10

nbn™tries to ease peak hour crunch with cheaper bundles

50 Mbps / 100 Mbps now bundle CVC capacity

Networks14 Dec 2017 | 9

Optus to refund NBN customers for slow connections

'Technical limitations' hobbled copper-based services

On-Prem11 Dec 2017 | 8

nbn™ chair Ziggy Switkowski says HFC remediation mess is business as usual

'Every time we launch a new platform we got through processes learning how to do it well'

Networks05 Dec 2017 | 13

nbn™ pauses hybrid fibre-coax build and will fix current connections

+Comment Billions spent on networks not fit for purpose, cabling may be to blame

Networks27 Nov 2017 | 19

nbn™ to ISPs: share your speeds or we'll share 'em for you

NBN Week nbn™ financials, the speed scandal, and 'what millennials like part 1,096'

Networks19 Nov 2017 | 13

Telstra drops nbn™ in it as it wears compo for broadband speed ads

Carrier says 'it is not possible to accurately determine what speed the NBN can deliver to a customer prior to connection'

Legal08 Nov 2017 | 31

Who's to blame for the NBN? Hardly anyone remembers, or cares

NBN WEEK Vulture South wraps the week's news of Australia's National Broadband Network

Legal05 Nov 2017 | 10

Birds are pecking apart Australia's national broadband network

Everything in Australia wants to kill you and if they can't find flesh, telco cabling will do

Bootnotes03 Nov 2017 | 88

Woeful NBN services attract ACCC's attention

Mulls rewrite to wholesale service standards to give punters some leverage

Legal02 Nov 2017 | 13

Vodafone's NBN plans may include voice-over-WiFi, virtual landlines

Carrier already this overseas, seeks Oz punters' opinions on 'NBN extras' plan, name

Networks27 Oct 2017 | 3

nbn™ to use G.fast in late 2018, firstly in commercial premises

Off-roadmap announcement precedes debut of business kit and is weird about FTTN

Legal24 Oct 2017 | 9

nbn™'s problems were known – in 2008, a year before its birth

PM says the network's a waste of money? It's also yet another wasted chance at real reform

Legal23 Oct 2017 | 18

Joint Committee on the NBN splits, as National Party member sides with opposition

Liberal MPs say FTTN is fine, the rest call for FTTP or FTTC from now on

Legal29 Sep 2017 | 38

nbn™ sweetens the deal for business and its own bottom line

Updated Mirrors price relief offered to consumer market

Networks27 Sep 2017 | 2

Internet Australia chair, directors, won't seek re-election

+COMMENT 'Time for significant board renewal' and perhaps less sound and fury too

Legal06 Sep 2017 | 2

nbn™ adds premises to FTTC, HFC, slims down FTTN build

Build will end in 2020, stay in the financial envelope.
We promise, really, truly

Networks01 Sep 2017 | 49

Australian telcos promise to be better NBN helpers

Just like they always promise to stop having rubbish customer service

Legal22 Aug 2017 | 8

Groundhog Day! ACCC again calls for truth in broadband advertising

100 Mbps? Call it the 60 Mbps customers might actually experience at peak hour

Legal21 Aug 2017 | 10

nbn™ blames cheap-ass telcos for grumpy users, absolves CVC pricing

All this will pass says CEO Morrow, once ISPs consolidate and stop discounting

Legal31 Jul 2017 | 31

Retailers would love an NBN backhaul tariff restructure

But it might be hard to persuade the government

Legal25 Jul 2017 | 50

Deutsche Telekom G.fast demo pushes G.Fast faster, further

Interview: Sckipio explains what carriers will like about cDTA

Networks20 Jul 2017 | 5

nbn™ hits the half-way mark – but has more than half of the job left

Signups remain at <50%, revenue isn't right and don't forget Turnbull promised we'd all be connected in 2016

Legal10 Jul 2017 | 25

Wanted: broadband crash-test dummies for ACCC's speed tests

Competition regulator wants you to help tag slack ISPs

Legal18 Jun 2017 | 3

If you live in a network lab, you'll get gigabit NBN over HFC soon

Cable networks' upgrade to DOCSIS 3.1 inches a step closer

Networks05 Jun 2017 | 14

nbn™ needs copper to build FTTN: another 15,000 km of it

Some greenfields won't get fibre, company tells Senate

Legal18 May 2017 | 36

nbn™ delivers another financial yawn-fest

Solid Q3 with no surprises

On-Prem11 May 2017 |

Up Wolf Creek without a signal: outback cable cut disconnects top end TPG, Optus customers

Truck hauls up Nextgen fibre, the fix is in once repair crews can find the break

Networks02 May 2017 | 4

nbn™ demos gigabit-speed fixed wireless services

nbn™ still thinks hardly anyone needs gigabit broadband but wants to show it's ready anyway

Networks25 Apr 2017 | 3