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Labor commits $3bn to NBN upgrades

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has committed an additional $3 billion to “finish” the NBN and improve internet speeds at remaining fibre-to-the node (FTTN) premises should Labor win this year’s...

We should follow US FCC on broadband benchmarks

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has raised the broadband internet speed benchmark to at least 100 Mbps download and 20 Mbps upload. This decision by...

Fixing regional mobile is the Albanese govt’s NBN moment

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has decided not to grant authorisation for the proposed regional mobile network arrangements between Telstra and TPG Telecom. In doing so the...

Absence of progress as the NBN strikes out again

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
The NBN Company has released a discussion paper on its Special Access Undertaking variation and commenced a new round of talks with the competition regulator, service providers and consumer...

The short timeline to a hefty 5G boost

Posted on   |  by David McClure
5G technology will offer a game changing and sometimes lifesaving boost to everything from healthcare to the fashion industry. In the episode of the Verizon Age of Trust podcast...

On NBN: History is always written by the victors

Posted on   |  by David Havyatt
Today the Communications Minister announced a plan to bring ‘ultrafast broadband’ to millions of families and businesses and he welcomed the release of the NBN Co corporate plan demonstrating...

The $3b NBN fibre upgrade we had to have

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The government will upgrade half of Australia’s fibre-to-the-node NBN network to full fibre as part of a $3 billion plan to make faster internet more widely available, in what...

Business zones to get $700m NBN fibre upgrade

Posted on   |  by James Riley
More than 700,000 businesses across 240 designated ‘Business Fibre Zones’ nationwide will get access to free upgrades to gigabit fibre connections as part of a $700 million post-COVID economic...

Welfare calls for communications subsidies

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The government has been urged to step in to address immediate affordability issues in relation to communications services and equipment to ensure that low income earners, the unemployed and...