nbn CEO Bill Morrow has announced the appointment of Peter Ryan as the new Chief Network Engineering Officer effective immediately.

COMMENT: At Senate Estimates earlier this week, nbn company CEO Bill Morrow revealed that the broadband wholesaler has ordered 1800 km of copper cable for the FttN rollout. That’s just for the next five months of what will be a five year project. In the same breath, he praised the state of Telstra’s existing copper and said nbn had not needed to replace any yet. Is there a disconnect here?

The nbn company revealed last night in a Senate Estimates hearing that it has ordered $14 million of copper amounting to 1800 kilometres of twisted pair cables for the FttN component of the Coalition Government’s Multi-Technology-Mix (MTM) National Broadband Network.

A 3-year plan released today by the nbn company has forecast for the first time, the likely technology to be used and when the rollout will reach each area.

nbn boss Bill Morrow has come out firing on all cylinders against critics, claiming Australia’s mixed broadband network technology approach is typical of most countries. Morrow said claims that advanced countries are going all fibre are false.

National Broadband Network chief Bill Morrow has defended the potential of the NBN to deliver very fast broadband services, hitting back at criticism that fibre-to-the-node technology would consign Australia to becoming an “internet backwater.”

After previously promising 8 million homes by 2020, NBN Co now says at least a million more homes will be connected two years sooner - do we believe it?

To nobody’s surprise, the NBN has met its targets, which had previously been revised downwards. Last year it doubled the number of serviceable premises and end users.

NBN says the current construction workforce will double to 9000, announcing $40 million for a ‘training and awareness campaign’ to attract more installers.

Got Optus cable? It will end up being your NBN connection.

The NBN might be delivering a sub-optimal wired service now the Government has directed it to use copper rather than fibre, but it says its wireless service will be first rate.

Who’d a thought it? Malcolm Turnbull has announced how pleased he is that the NBN has exceeded its targets. Easy, if you know how.

The company rolling out Australia’s National Broadband Network had released its quarterly results, which show steady ‘linear’ growth.

NBN Co’s results show a doubling of premises connected, higher ARPU, 3x revenue, higher capex costs, but larger EBIT and EBITDA losses.

Telstra loves to launch the fastest first, so I wonder if Telstra’s new CEO, Andrew Penn, is interested in 35x LTE spectral efficiency from Artemis Networks?

Better late than never. Or is it? The transition to the Turnbull NBN is now complete.

Malcolm Turnbull said it would happen by June. He was six months out. In the shadow of Christmas, on a Sunday afternoon, the new NBN deal with Telstra has been announced.

With the NBN Co having revised its figures from 2.7 million homes by June 2016 before the 2013 election to just 1.9 million homes now the Coalition is in power, has the NBN become as big a shemozzle under the LNP as it was under Labor?

NBN Co has published a new rollout plan showing the next 400 locations to be connected. But the lack of HFC agreements with Optus and Telstra mean most metro areas miss out.

OPINION. It is almost impossible to believe. Telstra, the former government monopoly that has squeezed billions out of the NBN, with many more billions to come, is now complaining that it will have to raise prices – because of competition from the NBN.