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1. ACCC fines the three largest internet service providers $33.5 million for misrepresenting internet speed connection: (Technology Regulation); ... for breaching the Australian Consumer Law. The three largest telecoms made misleading statements in relation to their 50Mbps or 100Mbps fibre to the node (FTTN) plans. Telstra, Optus, and TPG Telecom ...; Created on 14 November 2022
2. TPG Telecom appoints BofA Securities to grow broadband arm Vision Network: (Business Telecoms); TPG Telecom has recruited Bank of America’s multinational investment banking division BofA Securities to support the growth of its broadband infrastructure arm, Vision Network, by assisting with a “strategic ...; Created on 02 November 2022
3. NBN lists more areas where fibre upgrade is possible: (Telecoms & NBN); ... communities. As of this writing, NBN has claimed it identified the areas where customers living and working in two million premises served by fibre to the node (FTTN) will become eligible to upgrade ...; Created on 19 October 2022
4. TPG Telecom’s FTTB Wholesale renamed as Vision Network to supply internet to 400,000 customers in Australia: (Business Telecoms); ... Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth; and fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) services in Canberra, ACT. Vision Network will offer a range of plans from 25/5Mbs to 100/40Mbps, and as fast as one gigabit per second ...; Created on 27 September 2022
5. Aussie Broadband's nbn Enterprise Ethernet opens Australian businesses to the worl: (Networking); ... your business to communicate, service customers, create and collaborate, gather data and work with that data. While FTTN, FTTC, and HFC technologies have helped connect many businesses, they may also ...; Created on 22 August 2022
6. Total telecom and pay-TV services revenue booms to $30.7 billion by 2026: forecast: (Business Telecoms); ... are especially driving the fibre broadband service adoption in the country. For instance, NBN Co is encouraging more than 50,000 customers who are currently using its fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) infrastructure ...; Created on 16 August 2022
7. The D-Link G415 AX1500 4G smart router opens your home, office, or Winnebago to the world: (Networking); ... I can get on my NBN FTTN fixed-line - and I enjoyed responsive performance and connectivity on all the devices. The family didn’t notice I’d sneakily pushed them over to 4G while the children played games ...; Created on 07 June 2022
8. NBN delivers access to Ultrafast internet to a further 160,000 homes and businesses: (Telecoms & NBN); ... Australians across our fixed-line technologies, including FTTN and HFC." The first 157,000 FTTC premises in parts of the following suburbs and towns are now eligible to upgrade to FTTP: NSW Abbotsford, ...; Created on 04 June 2022
9. BT launches Hybrid Speed Boost to upgrade internet speeds for smaller businesses: (Business Telecoms); ... service to improve throughput, perhaps it should be considered for those on FTTN long-copper. The Hybrid Speed Boost offers an average download speed boost of 20Mbps, which BT claims is more than twice ...; Created on 27 May 2022
10. Aussie Broadband releases 3Q FY22 trading update and completes Over The Wire acquisition: (Company News); ... which is focused on moving customers from copper-based fibre to the node services (FTTN) and fibre to the curb (FTTC) services to fibre to the premises (FTTP). Business broadband Business broadband ...; Created on 03 May 2022
11. NBN Co to provide fast download speeds to eight million premises by 2023: (Telecoms & NBN); ... upgrades. On 22 March, NBN Co announced that the first 50,000 customers currently served by FTTN will be eligible to upgrade to FTTP. This year NBN Co is planning to enable around 60,000 FTTN premises ...; Created on 25 April 2022
12. NBN be warned as T‑Mobile smokes the competition in the US: (5G); ... played a large role in the Australian market. For at least a decade, prior to NBN, we saw Telstra fail to make a move into FTTN due to the regulatory uncertainty and a competitive market enamoured by the ...; Created on 22 April 2022
13. Labor responds to Coalition spending in regional areas: (Telecoms & NBN); ... already out of date. I expect that NBN will be slow to remove FTTN, HFC and FTTC assets as this will create a financial problem with many of these assets not fully depreciated. Is the industry more ...; Created on 08 April 2022
14. Fibre upgrades for around 40,000 eligible homes and businesses in Victoria: (Telecoms & NBN); ... around 40,000 additional eligible homes and businesses that access the NBN network via Fibre to the Node (FTTN) in 50 suburbs and towns across Victoria to upgrade to Fibre to the Premises (FTTP).  It ...; Created on 29 March 2022
15. Aussie Broadband to take-up NBN’s new fibre upgrade scheme: (Telecoms & NBN); 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 ...; Created on 28 March 2022
16. NBN Co's financial worries far from over, says telco expert Budd: (Telecoms & NBN); ... providers who can then make offers to their customers. The offers in question are: Upgrade from 12Mbps to 25Mbps and receive an $8 rebate; Upgrade from 12Mbps to 50Mbps, or the 25-50 tier for FttN/FttB ...; Created on 11 February 2022
17. NBN Co H1 FY22 financial and operational results: (Telecoms & NBN); ... and regional areas throughout Australia. To date, the company has announced the suburbs and towns where 1.6 million premises currently served by Fibre to the Node (FTTN) technology will be offered upgrades ...; Created on 11 February 2022
18. Morrison Government says Western Sydney set to benefit from investment in 5G: (5G); ... forward replacement of FTTN. I expected more, their policies leading into the last federal election were much more extensive. This first appeared in the subscription newsletter CommsWire on 10 December ...; Created on 14 December 2021
19. Nokia and Türk Telekom successfully test 25G PON technology in Turkey: (Telecoms & NBN); Nokia and Türk Telekom have completed the first successful 25G PON trial in Turkey making it the fastest fibre network in the country. The laboratory trial took place in Türk Telekom Ankara Innovation ...; Created on 08 December 2021
20. NBN download speeds steady but upload speeds not hitting maximum: (Telecoms & NBN); ... to the node (FTTN) connections that rarely record speeds above 75% of their plan speed showed no improvement in September 2021, remaining at 12% of the ACCC’s sample. “There are a significant number ...; Created on 08 December 2021
21. Ziggy Switkowski steps down with Kate McKenzie to take over as new Chair of NBN Co: (Telecoms & NBN); ... the then Minister Turnbull's Multi-technology Mix (MTM) network solution, including the now semi-redundant FTTN access technology. Switkowski had NBN Co set and maintain more realistic timeframes for deployment, ...; Created on 26 November 2021
22. Analyst puts Labor NBN plan in same basket as govt efforts: (Telecoms & NBN); ... after it backflipped and started to upgrade FttN connections to full fibre". "The $2.4 billion that they are putting on the table for it, is in line with the sort of ongoing extra investments the government ...; Created on 17 November 2021
23. Rowland says Morrison-Joyce Government has questions to answer about its regional internet tax: (Technology Regulation); ... Our need for speed and capacity is far greater than what the Coalition's analysts said at the time, hence the need to now over build FTTN with FTTP. As i've stated before politicians should leave technology ...; Created on 12 November 2021
24. NBN likely to end up with $90 billion bill, top telco analyst says: (Telecoms & NBN); ... FttN (between $600 and $650) and hybrid fibre coaxial (between $800 and $850 per premise), which have been kept hidden until now. Before the 2013 election, Turnbull, who had been given the communications ...; Created on 12 November 2021
25. 200,000 more homes and businesses to become eligible for NBN fibre upgrades: (Telecoms & NBN); ... customers living and working in these premises that are currently served by Fibre to the Node (FTTN) to become eligible for Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) upgrades, on demand, when the customer orders a ...; Created on 11 November 2021
26. Malcolm Turnbull needs to explain dodgy cut-down NBN rollout figures: (Open Sauce); ... Greg Jericho (@GrogsGamut) November 10, 2021 But the Guardian report said upgrade issues had resulted in a three-fold cost blowout, with FttN connections now costing $2330 and HFC at $2572 in the latest ...; Created on 10 November 2021
27. Telstra unveils $85 1TB 5G home and business Internet service: (5G); ... ordinary residential services, such as NBN’s fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) which still uses copper for the last leg to your premises. Conversely, it’s also subject to fluctuations from weather, mobile tower ...; Created on 03 November 2021
28. Nokia and Telekom Slovenije bring 10 gigabit per second broadband to Slovenia: (Telecoms & NBN); ... are proud to work with Telekom Slovenije to bring high-speed broadband to customers on the largest FTTH network in Slovenia.” Nokia is NBN's vendor for FTTP, FTTN, and core aggregation routers, it is ...; Created on 29 September 2021
29. Nokia and Telekom Slovenije bring 10 gigabit per second broadband to Slovenia: (Telecoms & NBN); ... are proud to work with Telekom Slovenije to bring high-speed broadband to customers on the largest FTTH network in Slovenia.” Nokia is NBN's vendor for FTTP, FTTN, and core aggregation routers, it is ...; Created on 29 September 2021
30. NBN meeting its social responsibility to Australians during COVID: (Telecoms & NBN); ... election to be held on or before 22 May 2022. NBN needs to spend much more capital to gradually replace FTTN. This technology was sold to us by the Coalition in 2013, based on a forecast that the median ...; Created on 28 September 2021
31. Australia ranks 55 and New Zealand 20 out of 224 in 2021 Worldwide Broadband Speed League: (Telecoms & NBN); Analysis of over 1.1 billion broadband speed tests worldwide has revealed where almost every country, territory and region sits in terms of its internet speeds. The research was designed and compiled ...; Created on 20 September 2021
32. NBN continuing to be the political football: (Telecoms & NBN); ... the poorest access technology positioned in the Strategic Review, FTTN. So the then Government commissioned this bull, to justify its supposedly cheaper NBN, that in the end wasn't. I do feel for the ...; Created on 30 August 2021
33. Research and Markets report examines the rise of 5G fixed-wireless access and the retail strategy of operators: (5G); ... and Zain (Kuwait). 5G fixed wireless access is topical at the moment in Australia, as many view this technology as a viable alternative to NBN FTTN/B/C. Australian company, Netcomm Wireless, acquired ...; Created on 18 August 2021
34. NBN Co delivers revenue and EBITDA growth: (Telecoms & NBN); ... will be eligible to upgrade from Fibre to the Node (FTTN) to Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) to gain access to higher speed tiers, on demand, by the end of 2023. To date, the company has commenced the detailed ...; Created on 11 August 2021
35. The ACCC - Telstra, Optus and TPG allegedly misled consumers over NBN maximum speeds: (Telecoms & NBN); ... and 100Mbps NBN plans, in breach of the Australian Consumer Law. The ACCC alleges that the companies made representations to some consumers on Fibre to the Node (FTTN) connections that they would test ...; Created on 11 August 2021
36. NBN Co awards contracts for FTTN to FTTP upgrades: (Telecoms & NBN); NBN Co has awarded around $1.1 million worth of construction contracts as part of the $2.9 billion plan to upgrade large parts of the fibre to the node (FTTN) network to fibre to the premises (FTTP). Four ...; Created on 15 July 2021
37. Telstra apologises and clarifies its "responsibility and commitment to clarifying your NBN speeds: (Telecoms & NBN); ... is not able to support those speeds." Nayak continues: "This mainly affects Fibre to the Node (FTTN), Fibre to the Building (FTTB) and Fibre to the Curb (FTTC) households. We’ve added some more information ...; Created on 25 June 2021
38. NBN Special Access Undertaking Variation Discussion Paper: (Telecoms & NBN); ... (CVC) component. It also adds all the current Governments Multi-Technology Mix access technologies, such as Fibre-to-the-Building, Node, Curb (FTTB, FTTN, FTTC) and Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC). NBN Co released ...; Created on 08 June 2021
39. NBN Co’s latest list of suburbs and towns where 900,000 more homes are eligible for a fibre upgrade by ordering selected plans: (Telecoms & NBN); ... are currently served by Fibre to the Node (FTTN) where certain premises will progressively become eligible for Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) upgrades. Following earlier announcements to roll fibre deeper ...; Created on 05 May 2021
40. NBN Co pricing review will lead to $2 per customer price rise: Budde: (Telecoms & NBN); ... that another 100,000 FttN premises would be upgraded to FttP. "The repayment basically switches the money to its own debt that now stands at $22,6 billion," he pointed out. "Obviously the extreme low interest ...; Created on 17 February 2021
41. Another 100,000 premises to get fibre as NBN Co rollout progresses: (Telecoms & NBN); ... and follows an earlier announcement in October 2020 when NBNCo started work on the initial program to design and construct new fibre into communities currently served by Fibre to the Node (FTTN) technology. ...; Created on 10 February 2021
42. NBN Co's HFC product is a dog's breakfast, claims Tasmanian R: (Telecoms & NBN); ... "FttN now has an upgrade to FttP plan in the works. There is no equivalent for HFC, so we are likely to be stuck with it for a while. The basic problem is that most people (including politicians and regulators) ...; Created on 08 February 2021
43. Optus lays claim to 'fastest 5G' in Sydney and Melbourn: (Fuzzy Logic); ... can differ across the country. A comparison with an NBN 100 FTTN connection over Wi-Fi that I've just connected to at the same location is giving me 80Mbps download and 37.6Mbps upload speeds. For other ...; Created on 05 February 2021
44. Battery backup 'remains essential for telecommunications resilience: (Telecoms & NBN); ... premises affect NBN services. FTTP services can be protected with the optional backup battery, but HFC, FTTN and FTTC connections rely on the power supply to the premises. Furthermore, most connected equipment ...; Created on 13 January 2021
45. Broadband speeds continue to improve during pandemic, ACCC finds: (Telecoms & NBN); ... at any give time. “Although most consumers have already benefitted from increased download speeds, those on FttN connections are continuing to experience lower than expected speeds," Sims said. "We ...; Created on 04 December 2020
46. NBN Co boosts first quarter revenue, earnings: (Telecoms & NBN); ... eligible premises to place an order for a higher speed services, which is likely to trigger the construction of a fibre lead-in, thereby completing their conversion from fibre to the node (FttN) to fibre ...; Created on 09 November 2020
47. NBN Co begins work on upgrading copper areas with fibre: (Telecoms & NBN); ... would pass about 100,000 homes in FttN areas. By the end of 2023, about two million homes in all would be passed. Progress is also being made on upgrading the HFC network, with forecasts that the end ...; Created on 27 October 2020
48. ACCC says fixed-line NBN connections held up well in May and June: (Telecoms & NBN); ... the speeds for which they had paid. “We encourage NBN Co and RSPs to continue to build upon this result especially given the additional investment in FttN service improvements announced last week by ...; Created on 29 September 2020
49. Telstra's 'targeted launch' of 5G Home Internet plus NBN speed boosts on non-FTTN plans, t: (Telecoms & NBN); ... a 500GB data cap for $85 per month - and there are 215Mbps Superfast and 250Mbps Ultrafast options for FTTP and HFC but not FTTN customers, and faster typical evening speeds, too. At a post that is ...; Created on 29 September 2020
50. Fibre flip 'will not fix all the problems caused by switch to FttN: (Telecoms & NBN); ... from Flinders University claims. Dr Paul Gardner-Stephens, a senior lecturer at the College of Science and Engineering, said in a post sent to iTWire that one issue was that FttN required that the ...; Created on 25 September 2020

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