Tag: NBN

NBN Co model gets hammered

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
For the hard-working staff at NBN Co, the nonsense being spruiked by CEO Bill Morrow must be hard to swallow. For the rest of Australia, Mr Morrow’s comments are...

Chaotic plan for regional comms

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
The Turnbull Government has released draft legislation for an industry levy called the Regional Broadband Scheme (RBS) that will partially fund NBN Co’s loss-making fixed-wireless and satellite services. This...

NBN’s a can of worms on pricing

Posted on   |  by James Riley
NBN Co CEO Bill Morrow told Senate Estimates last week that NBN Co is consulting on a new volume-based discount model that would be made available to individual Retail...

Cheeriness on NBN is premature

Posted on   |  by Graeme Philipson
Everybody – at least nearly everybody – loves infrastructure. We love trains and bridges and tunnels and stuff. And politicians love infrastructure more than anybody. They love announcing big...

Nauseous politics and the NBN

Posted on   |  by James Riley
If it was ever possible to conduct a reasonable discussion about the National Broadband Network without getting attacked by ideologues, those days are long past. Debate on broadband issues...

Vodafone enters fixed line market

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
Vodafone Hutchison Australia CEO Iñaki Berroeta has used his 2016 Charles Todd Oration last week to announce that Vodafone would offer fixed broadband over the National Broadband Network (NBN)...

NBN pushes for high speed copper

Posted on   |  by Graeme Philipson
No formal announcement has been made, but it is becoming increasingly obvious that NBN Co is looking at G.fast as the technology it will use to squeeze fibre-like speeds...

Malcolm’s Sesame Street moment

Posted on   |  by James Riley
“One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn’t belong; Can you tell which thing is not like the others, By the time...

No chance the USO will be dumped

Posted on   |  by James Riley
There is “absolutely no chance” that government will end the Universal Service Obligation (USO) at the end of its review of the system, according to Telstra Group Director of...