Tag: National Broadband Network

Surge in NBN bypass numbers

Posted on   |  by James Riley
In a stunning admission by NBN Co CEO Bill Morrow, the number of premises deemed too hard to connect to the National Broadband Network (NBN) has continued to rise...

NBN thin-skinned social censors

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
NBN Co has ramped up efforts to censor critics and has labelled individuals and not-for-profits that provide feedback or are critical of the National Broadband Network (NBN) as trolls,...

NBN Co model gets hammered

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
For the hard-working staff at NBN Co, the nonsense being spruiked by CEO Bill Morrow must be hard to swallow. For the rest of Australia, Mr Morrow’s comments are...

Chaotic plan for regional comms

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
The Turnbull Government has released draft legislation for an industry levy called the Regional Broadband Scheme (RBS) that will partially fund NBN Co’s loss-making fixed-wireless and satellite services. This...

NBN bailout a political mockery

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
After presenting the nation with a massively watered-down plan for the National Broadband Network (NBN) in April 2013, the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has now had to bail out...

NBN’s a can of worms on pricing

Posted on   |  by James Riley
NBN Co CEO Bill Morrow told Senate Estimates last week that NBN Co is consulting on a new volume-based discount model that would be made available to individual Retail...

Cheeriness on NBN is premature

Posted on   |  by Graeme Philipson
Everybody – at least nearly everybody – loves infrastructure. We love trains and bridges and tunnels and stuff. And politicians love infrastructure more than anybody. They love announcing big...

Nauseous politics and the NBN

Posted on   |  by James Riley
If it was ever possible to conduct a reasonable discussion about the National Broadband Network without getting attacked by ideologues, those days are long past. Debate on broadband issues...

Vodafone enters fixed line market

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
Vodafone Hutchison Australia CEO Iñaki Berroeta has used his 2016 Charles Todd Oration last week to announce that Vodafone would offer fixed broadband over the National Broadband Network (NBN)...