Tag: NBN

Telco’s brace for ACCC draft report

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The ACCC will release a draft report on competition issues in the telecommunications sector within days, just as the industry labours under a barrage of bad publicity following the...

Everyone now hates their telco

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Complaints about internet services skyrocketed in the past year, with anger at the National Broadband Network climbing by more than 150 per cent, a Telecommunication Industry Ombudsman report has...

Multi-tech mess fleeces the nation

Posted on   |  by James Riley
A decade ago when John Howard was swept from office, he left Australia a broadband backwater. A broken regulatory structure and clear market failure demanded government intervention. So Labor’s...

GigCity network lights up Adelaide

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The South Australian government has flicked the switch on “ultra-fast” internet in Adelaide, making it “one of the most connected cities in the world”. The $7.6 million GigCity Adelaide...

$30b NBN blunder: More bad news

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
Malcolm Turnbull’s multi-technology mix National Broadband Network (NBN) was comprehensively undermined last week when BT’s Openreach CEO Clive Selley indicated that 10 million UK premises could have Fibre to...

NBN versus the natural gas rollout

Posted on   |  by James Riley
In a blog posted on 5 July, NBN Chief Networking Officer Peter Ryan makes a series of misleading statements about why NBN Co is building a national network dominated by copper-based...

What next for NBN’s Bill Morrow?

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Bill Morrow, the 56-year-old Californian silver fox who heads Australia’s endlessly controversial National Broadband Network sounds just a little amazed with himself when he admits that the job –...

NYT: What not to do on broadband

Posted on   |  by Michelle Rowland
I don’t receive much feedback about Malcolm Turnbull anymore – not at industry events, discussions with stakeholders in the communications sector, or even at street corner meetings in Blacktown....

Surge in NBN bypass numbers

Posted on   |  by James Riley
In a stunning admission by NBN Co CEO Bill Morrow, the number of premises deemed too hard to connect to the National Broadband Network (NBN) has continued to rise...