Tag: NBN

Competition wished into existence?

Posted on   |  by David Havyatt
Anyone who attends the ACCC and Australian Energy Regulator (AER) annual regulatory conference is struck by the existential dilemma that afflicts competition regulators. Their economic world view is that...

NBN performance problems rise

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Two announcements this week have painted a grim picture of the National Broadband Network (NBN) in the lead-up to the federal election, and for many Australian consumers there is...

NBN future is a numbers game

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
The Shadow Minister for Communications Michelle Rowland has released Labor’s election policy for the National Broadband Network (NBN). The plan focuses on the future and tackles key issues including...

Labor outlines NBN future plans

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Federal Labor has earmarked $125 million toward an NBN quick-fix for up to 750,000 customers with poor in-home cabling, and a further $60 million to conduct fibre-upgrade trials that...

NBN result paints a grim picture

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
NBN Co has released lacklustre first-half results for financial year 2018/19 and the spectre of the roll-out continuing into 2022 is now very real. NBN Co continues to struggle...

NBN write-down a band-aid solution

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
Calls for the value of the National Broadband Network (NBN) to be written down won’t resolve the systemic problems with the telecommunications market, providing nothing more than a band-aid...

ACCC blames FTTN for NBN woes

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Fibre-to-the-node connections are to blame for most of the slow NBN speeds but “further work” could help them reach “similar speed” to the other technologies, according to an ACCC...

Ziggy’s NBN value thought bubble

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
In a response to a question at the Senate Estimates Committee, NBN Co has failed to provide justification for chairman Ziggy Switkowski’s assertion that the National Broadband Network could...

Tackling Rudd’s NBN revisionism

Posted on   |  by David Havyatt
Kevin Rudd’s The PM Years is an interesting exercise in revisionism that has fuelled great interest in his assertion that Murdoch attacked the NBN for commercial reasons. Before we...