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GUEST INTERVIEW: Putting the industry under immense competitive pressure, Aussie Broadband's Carbon has emerged as a true diamond, letting business customers have incredible control over Internet and mobile connectivity with true self-service, while also having full support as needed, with Aaron O'Keeffe on-hand to explain it all.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Putting the industry under immense competitive pressure, Aussie Broadband's Carbon has emerged as a true diamond, letting business customers have incredible control over Internet and mobile connectivity with true self-service, while also having full support as needed, with Aaron O'Keeffe on-hand to explain it all.

NBN Co is inviting customers living and working in around 160,000 premises currently served by Fibre to the Curb (FTTC) in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia to upgrade to Fibre to the Premises (FTTP).

The Australian Labor Party's pledge during the election campaign to offer 90% of broadband users in the country higher speeds will not have the intended effect unless the price of the technology is lowered, the independent telecommunications analyst Paul Budde says.

Aussie Broadband has been recognised as Australia’s best broadband provider at a telco industry awards event.

GUEST OPINION: The pandemic has altered the business landscape forever, and telecommunications has been a focal point in that evolution. With businesses permanently moving workforces to remote and hybrid models, and more individuals relying on secure and stable connectivity, the need for fast mobile and internet connection has never been higher.

T-Mobile announced that the company welcomed its 1 millionth Home Internet customer, remarkable growth just one year after launching the service commercially. This indicates that an aggressive deployment of fixed wireless infrastructure in our Australian suburbs might be more viable.

Melbourne based RSP Activ8me has introduced new NBN satellite plans with daily rather than monthly caps. The idea is to stop customers running out of data before the end of the month.

Australian telco Singtel Optus has reported that some of its mobile customers are unable to make voice calls since shortly after 8am on Tuesday.

GUEST OPINION: Degraded connectivity and application outages are the bane of every digitally transformed business, but cost-effective workarounds exist.

In the latest shock news for Telstra's retiring CEO, Andy Penn will announce just after midday today his intention to take the reins as the new executive chair of the NBN from September 2022.

Telstra's announcement on Wednesday that chief financial officer Vicki Brady would replace chief executive Andrew Penn indicates that there will be no changes to the company's direction in the near future, independent telecommunications consultant Paul Budde says.

The NBN holds a unique position in the Federal Budget – no matter who is voted to power in the forthcoming Federal Election, the short-term changes proposed will remain, independent telecommunications analyst Paul Budde says.

NBN Co and the Victorian Government announced the second stage of a co-investment agreement, which will see fibre built deeper into more parts of metropolitan and regional Victoria.  

Macquarie Telecom has signed a deal with Domino’s Pizza to roll out nbn, VoIP, and SD-WAN services to more than 720 Domino stores in Australia.

Aussie Broadband has announced that it will participate in NBN’s new Fibre Connect program, which offers upgrades from fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) or fibre-to-the-curb (FTTC) technologies to full fibre for eligible customers.

The Australian Government and NBN announced funding of $750 million to improve NBN's fixed wireless network. The Government funding $480 million and NBN supporting this with an additional $270 million.

The Federal Government's announcement of an additional $480 million investment in regional broadband cannot be taken to indicate that the services will automatically improve as the money could just be an election handout, independent telecommunications consultant Paul Budde says.

NBN fixed wireless download speeds have improved significantly over the past year, the ACCC’s latest Measuring Broadband Australia (MBA) quarterly report shows. Speeds in December 2021 were 93.4% of plan speed during all hours and 79.8% of plan speed during the busy hours of 7-11pm.

NBN Co announced its commitment to setting science-based targets as part of its efforts to reduce emissions and support the nation’s transition to a low carbon economy.