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NBN in pictures

NBN Tasmania launch

Last Thursday morning, the National Broadband Network was officially launched in Tasmania by Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and Tasmanian Premier David Bartlett.

In pictures: Ericsson opens next-gen IPTV centre (updated)

Ericsson Australia has established a regional TV centre in Melbourne to advance the development and adoption of next-generation TV in the emerging era of high-speed broadband communications.

The NBN: a timeline

The rocky road to the Rudd government's NBN announcement

Telstra has devoted over three years and some 900 engineers to designing a national fibre network, and Acaltel has chipped-in 1000 of its own engineers who have devoted an estimated 1.5 million hours on the project. Telstra offered a glimpse of some of the technology behind its $10B bid for the National Broadband Network (NBN)

News about NBN

Telstra reveals NBN payment plan amid market headwinds

Telstra has revealed its latest plans to tackle the combined headwinds created by the NBN and an increasingly competitive market.

News Oct 17
Australian broadband speed ranking drops again despite NBN rollout

Australia continues to lose ground in the global broadband connection speed race.

News Mar 09
Rowland says govt supressing unflattering NBN information

Labor’s broadband spokesperson, Michelle Rowland, has accused the government of suppressing unflattering information about the NBN, citing its refusal to release redacted portions of the 2013 strategic review into the National Broadband Network.

News Dec 07
nbn grows customer base, but suffers EBITDA loss

Australian broadband network, nbn, has reported an EBITDA loss of $1.6 billion for the year ending June 30, compared to $1.1 billion the same time last year.

News Aug 16
[Updated] Labor has ruled out a Royal Commission into the NBN

Many people continue to call for Labor to order a Royal Commission into the NBN should they return to power. It’s not surprising why… the $36bn FttH national rollout has turned into a $60bn failed upgrade to the existing copper network with many que...

News Jun 16

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Features about NBN

Cisco’s internet traffic forecast describes a sobering explosion of traffic growth and exposes government nbn plans as woefully inadequate

Cisco has delivered its annual Visual Networking Index internet traffic forecast which predicts traffic growth going out to 2020. Previous forecasts have been within 10% accuracy but it was noted that the 2010 prediction figures for 2015 were within ...

Features Jun 19
NBN: The case for upload

Until now, the controversy over the relative merits of various approaches to implementing a broadband network has been conducted in terms of FTTP (Fibre To The Premises) against FTTN (Fibre to the Node), mainly on the grounds that fibre to the node ...

Features Jun 15
The schoolboy maths error that underpins Turnbull’s ‘nbn’

Malcolm Turnbull has said in recent times that he does not want any spin and is that he demands straight talking from NBN co regarding its broadband rollout. However, his speech at the recent Commsday NBN Rebooted conference appears to fly in the fac...

Features May 24
Enormous nbn power-connection delays were known about from the beginning

A prominent leak from within the nbn company has described how a dominant form of delay and cost blowout (with its favoured Fibre-to-the-Node rollout) is connecting power to tens of thousands of node cabinets. However, this ‘nightmare’ problem was kn...

Features May 20
Communications Minister contradicts nbn CEO on rollout remit

On ABC’s LateLine last night, nbn CEO Bill Morrow was asked why the new “skinny fibre” (a new form of fibre-based broadband technology) wasn’t being used instead of Fibre-to-the-Node (copper based broadband) despite only being slightly-more expensive...

Features Mar 17