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NBN Co has invited Expressions of Interest from federal, state, territory and local government agencies for the co-funding of projects to lift the digital capabilities of communities in regional and rural Australia.

Australia’s competition regulator the ACCC says a new regulatory model for the National Broadband Network is one step closer after a telecommunications industry roundtable last week brought together NBN Co, broadband retailers, industry groups, consumer representatives and government.

More than 500,000 Australians moved to faster NBN plans in the first quarter of 2021, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says in its latest Wholesale Market Indicators Report.

More than 7.4 million consumers are now connected to the National Broadband Network after the activation of 383,257 new services in the three months to the end of June, according to the competition regulator, the ACCC.

The Australian Labor Party has called for an NBN rebate — and free NBN broadband access for a period of at least 12 months — to help connect families and children with no Internet at home, ensuring access to broadband for children it says are potentially missing out on the benefits of connectivity.

Property developer Kanebridge claims that a fibre-based network that delivers super-fast Internet has been so successful at a masterplanned community in Sydney’s north west that it is now scaling the service to two more developments currently under construction.

Australian Internet users are collectively prepared to spend $267 million in total in one year to get a better Internet access, but they want a steadier service free of buffering and dropouts if they are going to fork out their hard earned cash.

The Australian Labor Party claims the rollout of the Coalition Government's multi-technology mix national broadband network has reached "new depths of confusion", with NBN Co chief executive Bill Morrow saying he is thinking of building a 5G wireless network to bypass parts of the copper NBN that are unreliable or corroding.

NBN Co chief executive Bill Morrow has claimed that some of the problems that led to the postponement of connecting customers to the network through HFC only surfaced recently as the volume of customers who were connecting rose in number.

Telstra’s mobile network is well-positioned to offer superior services to those offered by NBN Co, the company building the national broadband network, according to the latest report by a telecoms analyst.

NBN Co, the builder of the national broadband network, has boosted its team servicing regional and remote communities with the appointment of a dedicated unit aimed at improving the customer experience on its access network.

More than one million premises are now ready for connection to the National Broadband Network via the fibre-to-the-node (FttN) network as NBN Co speeds up the rollout across the country.