iiNet quick to offer NBN connection upgrades to existing customers and discounts for new...
We're seeing a bit of a pricing battle emerge among the NBN retail providers at the moment. Aussie Broadband were first to jump with others, including iiNet quickly following.
The promotion brings the price of a new NBN 100/20...
HFC is shaping up as a nightmare for NBN and for customers alike
Launtel boss Damian Ivereigh has savaged NBN's hybrid-fibre coax access technology (more commonly just called HFC), calling it the network's single most unreliable product.
That savagery is not without cause. While most people know that NBN's Fibre to the Node...
NBN Co no longer charging for technology upgrade quotes
Who doesn't want faster Internet? Unfortunately many of us are limited to the type of technology used for the NBN in our area. NBN Co have always offered the ability to pay for an upgrade to the...
Speetest data shows that Australia’s mobile broadband speeds are world leading, fixed broadband not...
In the past, we've taken a look at our fixed and mobile broadband services, their capacity and how NBN stacks up globally. While it's still nowhere near world-leading, the average speeds delivered by NBN has improved in global...
Telstra’s NBN offerings are set to get better with no extra cost to consumers
Telstra is one of several big players in the NBN field, but they also have their eyes set on being the player to beat. Earlier we saw the targeted approach to 5G home broadband offerings, but there's more...
NBN Co predicts only 400,000 will order gigabit fibre by 2024, no upgrades before...
While it will invest in rolling fibre out in Fibre to the Node areas covering some two million households over the next few years, NBN Co is predicting a much smaller uptake of faster, fibre broadband services.
In fact, NBN...
More NBN good news starts to emerge – will offer instant online quotes for...
While yesterday's NBN news was mostly good news for all users of Australia's National Broadband Network, there were a number of changes to be found in the finer print after the Minister Paul Fletcher gave his speech to the...
NBN changes coming to bring the National Broadband Network up to 1Gbps for most...
It's almost trite to talk about how the original plans for Australia's National Broadband Network didn't quite work out the way it was intended, and there's also not all that much argument that the NBN we've wound up with...
NBN to continue with boosted bandwidth to providers until November 2020
Earlier in the year, NBN Co announced that they would expand Connectivity Virtual Circuit (CVC) capacity by 40% during the COVID-19 pandemic. This was -- in the short term -- a response to the increased pressure on infrastructure...
Feeling the need for NBN speed? Just craving fibre? Technology Choice can get you...
A lot of water has gone under the bridge since Australia's National Broadband Network was conceived, changed, and ultimately implemented. What started as a grand vision (perhaps unrealistic) for near universal fibre to every premise in Australia wound up...
NBN Co’s COVID data support offer expires soon. What’s next higher bills or slower...
In a little over three weeks the NBN Co's extended offer of increased data capacity to network providers is coming to an end. In the face of a second peak and the likelihood of rolling stay-at-home orders the likelihood...
Latest figures from Ookla Speedtest shows some service improvement in the last week
Since the lockdown began we've seen a lot of data around how our broadband services are holding up. Initially -- and frankly, as expected -- the latency on both fixed and mobile connections increased while speeds dropped. ...
NBN Co creates $150 million assistance package for struggling users
Many companies are coming up with ways to help their customers through these difficult times and the NBN Co has announced it will establish a $150 million package to support residential and small and medium business customers.
Now...
Ookla’s data shows that Australian broadband services are currently holding strong
There's so much going on in the world on a daily basis, but one constant and consistent issue is the COVID-19 pandemic. Hundreds of thousands of people directly impacted and millions more indirectly. One of those impacts...
Another week in, data shows broadband services are feeling the pressure
A week ago, we saw data that Australia's fixed broadband was holding up under changing conditions. Mobile services weren't doing quite as well, but were still relatively functional. The update to that data from Ookla shows that...