Tag: National Broadband Network

Everyone now hates their telco

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Complaints about internet services skyrocketed in the past year, with anger at the National Broadband Network climbing by more than 150 per cent, a Telecommunication Industry Ombudsman report has...

Taking out the trash: NBN rollout

Posted on   |  by James Riley
A Parliamentary Joint Standing Committee report calling for a comprehensive overhaul of the NBN rollout and slamming current processes was quietly released to the public on a Friday afternoon...

Multi-tech mess fleeces the nation

Posted on   |  by James Riley
A decade ago when John Howard was swept from office, he left Australia a broadband backwater. A broken regulatory structure and clear market failure demanded government intervention. So Labor’s...

GigCity network lights up Adelaide

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The South Australian government has flicked the switch on “ultra-fast” internet in Adelaide, making it “one of the most connected cities in the world”. The $7.6 million GigCity Adelaide...

$30b NBN blunder: More bad news

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
Malcolm Turnbull’s multi-technology mix National Broadband Network (NBN) was comprehensively undermined last week when BT’s Openreach CEO Clive Selley indicated that 10 million UK premises could have Fibre to...

High long-term cost of NBN

Posted on   |  by James Riley
NBN Co was tasked by the government with building the National Broadband Network (NBN) with the primary consideration being roll-out cost and time-to-market, irrespective of the ongoing operational and...

The not so rosy micro-node rollout

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Labor is making political bacon from an admission by NBN Co that almost all of the 1423 micro-nodes planted on the NBN so far to help boost network speeds...

NBN versus the natural gas rollout

Posted on   |  by James Riley
In a blog posted on 5 July, NBN Chief Networking Officer Peter Ryan makes a series of misleading statements about why NBN Co is building a national network dominated by copper-based...

What next for NBN’s Bill Morrow?

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Bill Morrow, the 56-year-old Californian silver fox who heads Australia’s endlessly controversial National Broadband Network sounds just a little amazed with himself when he admits that the job –...