National Broadband Network

Federal Police toss nbn™ under a bus over leaks to Senator

'Who leaked the leak? Not us', claim feds, 'talk to them'

Legal28 Mar 2017 | 8

nbn™ builder prioritises easy premises, because it must work like that

Don't criticise CEO Morrow for keeping the build moving

Networks28 Mar 2017 | 7

Sure, we could replace FTNN, says nbn™, if you let the unwired wait even longer for broadband

You could also have uncertain costs and lose handy powered, fibred FTTN cabinets

Legal07 Mar 2017 | 23

nbn™ is installing new hybrid-fibre coax cables

The plan is to infill HFC-rich areas to create homogenous service zones

Legal01 Mar 2017 | 22

nbn™ puts the acid on Australia's ISPs to speed up its NBN

We only do the last few kms, CEO Bill Morrow tells Senate Estimates

Legal28 Feb 2017 | 9

Competition and wholesale costs, not lack of fibre, crimp broadband in Australia

Falls on Akamai's league table can't be automatically pinned on the multi-technology mix

Legal19 Feb 2017 | 50

nbn™ to cut the charges ISPs pay for traffic

In theory this should mean ISPs offer faster plans for fewer dollars

Networks17 Feb 2017 | 9

nbn™ tops AU$400 million half-year revenue

But signup for higher speed tiers is flat-lining

Networks09 Feb 2017 | 9

Turnbull transforms tech right off his agenda

But he's keen on a technology-agnostic NBN energy policy with lots of coal in it

Legal02 Feb 2017 | 11

Oz regulator trims broadband prices

'Just a little off the top, barber'

Legal10 Jan 2017 | 2

If nbn™ can't say when it will arrive in your street, you're getting a Telstra HFC connection

Network-builder updates 'when will I get NBN' service to explain when services will be available

Legal20 Dec 2016 | 22

Nice NBN rival you built there. What a shame if someone taxed it

Government wants $7/month levy on broadband to fund loss-making services in the bush

Legal12 Dec 2016 | 22

'NBN leak' documents sent to Jason Claire are privileged, says House of Reps committee

Senate still deciding about Police raids on plods' raids on Stephen Conroy

Legal28 Nov 2016 |

NetComm kicked to the curb by nbn™ for fibre-not-quite-to-the-home

Venerable vendor will provide ready-to-bury VDSL boxen

Networks22 Nov 2016 | 3

Australian government never asked nbn™ to apply for private loans

AU$19.5bn loan made on cost grounds, not due to concerns about the business model

Legal22 Nov 2016 | 6

NBN costs creating budget time bomb: Deloitte

'Fifty billion? Tell 'em they're dreaming, son'

On-Prem21 Nov 2016 | 12

Australian government lends nbn™ AU$19.5bn to finish the job

Bank of Mum & Dad steps in where others fear to tread

Legal18 Nov 2016 | 9

Telecoms Ombudsman praises nbn™ for growing connections faster than complaints

But nbn™ is now the most complained-about-telco, as a percentage of connections

Legal17 Nov 2016 | 10

nbn™ aces the easiest construction target it will have for two years

More than half of the NBN will be built in the next 21 months

Legal08 Nov 2016 | 22

New Zealand carrier says Cu later, copper: we're giving customers a glassing instead

Grit your teeth, Aussie fibre fans, Kiwis are beating us again

Networks03 Nov 2016 | 16

nbn™ says nobody needs gigabit internet, trumpets XG-Fast at 8Gbps anyway

Placating fibre fetishists has nbn™ in a twist and distracts us from bigger issues

Networks17 Oct 2016 | 42

ACCC keeps ADSL services in its grip

Suffer in your jocks, Telstra: Regulation to stay ahead of complete NBN rollout

Legal16 Oct 2016 |

Australian broadband sat launch also tested next Ariane rocket

Video European Space agency's re-usable rocket plan takes a small step forward

Networks06 Oct 2016 | 1

NBN is essential, says Essential poll, but not Turnbull's NBN

Finally, something that crosses the political divide

Networks05 Oct 2016 | 22

nbn™'s Sky Muster II satellite launch grounded by wind

If at first you don't succeed … you know the rest

Networks04 Oct 2016 | 1

Optus' HFC problems were never a secret, so why did nbn™ need the network?

Malcolm Turnbull, you will never be a network engineer

Networks29 Sep 2016 | 10

Source: nbn™'s fibre-to-the-kerb will be VDSL at 100/40Mbps

But Optus still gets its $800m payday, even though its network was too expensive to upgrade

Networks29 Sep 2016 | 21

nbn™ dumps Optus HFC, will use fibre to the kerb for ≈700k sites

So what exactly did AU$800m buy? An option for bits of Optus network, says nbn™

Networks28 Sep 2016 | 14

Former comms minster Stephen Conroy to leave Parliament

'The NBN is my greatest contribution' says senator in speech detailing trolling

Legal16 Sep 2016 | 13

Union: Telstra seeking 120 redundancies in network ops team

NBN contract miss puts pressure on field staff

On-Prem07 Sep 2016 |

Australian telecoms regulator watching over Telstra HFC/NBN deal

ACCC tells Telstra's right hand to pay no attention to left hand

Legal04 Sep 2016 | 1

Good job, Oz feds: Conroy wants you investigated for privilege and contempt

Inspector Cluseau called: he wants his bumbling schtick back

Legal31 Aug 2016 | 11

NBN HFC scaled down to stave off financial disaster

Net-builder hopes to raise AU$19 BEEELLION in debt by 2020; AFP leashed again

Legal28 Aug 2016 | 11

Australian Federal Police resume NBN raids, this time in parliament

Former comms minister Conroy calls on cops to back off, current minister says they're just following orders

Legal23 Aug 2016 | 4

Australia's Telstra and Optus outed as two of the world's six most expensive ISPs

Cloudflare says they just won't peer so it has to pay 17 times European data prices in Oz

Networks18 Aug 2016 | 14

NBN delivers boring, solid result for 2015/2016

Where's the money coming from after the gummint's last billions? Don't know yet

Networks16 Aug 2016 | 7

Labor's new comms spokesperson Michelle Rowland gets off to a bad start

Netflix speeds are not a good indicator of the NBN's progress

Networks14 Aug 2016 | 10

nbn™ switches on first Telstra HFC-powered broadband services

100/40Mbps services available to 2,300 Perth homes

Legal28 Jul 2016 | 10

Oz regulator eyes broadband marketing

ISPs fudging performance claims in ads? Say it isn't so!

Networks26 Jul 2016 | 6

nbn™ talks up HFC upgrades to gigabit speed

Research points out that HFC is widely-used and fast, but we knew that already and fibre fanatics don't care

Legal22 Jul 2016 | 14

Australia gets one-quarter of a minister for national infosec

Greg Hunt moves from environment to Minister For Agreeing With StartupLand

Legal18 Jul 2016 | 8

nbnTM names six shops to re-build Telstra's HFC network

And TITSUP Telstra gets to manage them all

Legal13 Jul 2016 | 6

Oz competition regulator seeks input on ending wholesale ADSL declaration

NBN is likely to make the service obsolete. If the clown-show gets it built

Legal05 Jul 2016 | 2

Telstra restarting long-stalled ADSL investment

Wait, what?

Networks29 Jun 2016 | 5

Aust Federal Police keep lid on docs that triggered NBN raids

Letter is national security

Networks26 Jun 2016 | 5

Quigley: FTTP wasn't a failed project

But unscrambling this egg will be painful

Networks23 Jun 2016 | 6

Telstra's 'future of medical diagnosis' needs just 5Mbps

If the future happens at 5Mbps, we need fibre to the what exactly why?

Networks19 Jun 2016 | 8

Nokia to Oz: 5G will need fibre, and lots of it

Latency, capacity, reliability and new network architectures won't be easy to deliver

Networks15 Jun 2016 | 7

NBN chairman's rant breached caretaker conventions says public service boss

Ziggy Switkowski was warned against penning op-ed

Legal15 Jun 2016 | 1

NBN 'copper guru' ads pulled from Monster.ie

'Not us' says network builder

Legal13 Jun 2016 | 2

Labor's broadband policy decides 39% fibre is healthy NBN diet

Decides not to throw bad money after good dismantling hybrid-fibre coax

Legal13 Jun 2016 | 12

Switkowski wades into NBN leak debate, ALP is furious

'Political rumourtrage' crack raises ire

Legal29 May 2016 | 8

NBN raid fallout continues, with Conroy formalising privilege claim

Feds' warrant names the guilty printer

Legal24 May 2016 | 9

NBN leak pits minister against AFP commissioner

Colvin's Keystone Cops okayed outsider's photos during raid

Legal22 May 2016 | 6

Australian Federal Police say government ignorant of NBN raids

Confirms target was Labor members, rejects claims the timing of the raids was political

Legal20 May 2016 | 12

Australian Federal Police raid former comms minister's office

National Broadband Network documents apparently sought as Feds probe leaks

Networks19 May 2016 | 1