Date: 10/07/2017
NBN reaches halfway mark
COMPUTERWORLD, 10 July, 2017 – Construction of the National Broadband Network has reached the halfway point, with NBN indicating it believes it is on track to meet its 2020 goal of completing the rollout. More than 5.7 million premises are able to connect to the NBN. Around 100,000 premises are being hooked up to the […]
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Date: 28/06/2017
Government looking to digital identification for Australian SMEs
ZDNET, 28 June, 2017 – The federal government wants to change the way small-to-medium enterprise (SMEs) do business with governments at all levels by introducing a digital identifier for every Australian business. Speaking at D61+ Live in Melbourne, Australia’s Assistant Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science Craig Laundy said that in order to achieve a digital […]
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Date: 23/06/2017
Government moves ahead with internet levy to fund regional broadband
NEWS.COM.AU, 23 June, 2017 – The government is moving ahead with its regional broadband scheme — dubbed an NBN tax — to help fund high quality internet for Australians in the bush but has included an exemption for smaller carriers for the first 25,000 premises for the first five years. Under the scheme, broadband providers will […]
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Date: 12/06/2017
Consumer IoT could outpace industrial IoT
NETWORK WORLD, 12 June, 2017 – Both Gartner and Tech Insider agree, the Internet of Things (IoT) will be a major tech category, predicting 20.4 billion units and 23.9 billion devices, respectively, by 2020. They disagree, however, about where those devices will go. Gartner says two-thirds of the devices will land in consumer applications. Tech […]
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Date: 06/06/2017
NBN Co takes HFC up to 984 Mbps in lab trials
ITNEWS, 6 June, 2017 – NBN Co has used a hybrid-fibre coaxial (HFC) test set-up in Melbourne to put DOCSIS 3.1 through its paces, hitting peak layer two downlink speeds of around 984 Mbps. The company used a current DOCSIS 3.1 network termination device (NTD) – which it started deploying in the field back in […]
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Date: 03/05/2017
ACCC releases fifth quarterly NBN wholesale market indicators report
CRN, 3 May, 2017 – The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has released its fifth quarterly NBN Wholesale Market Indicators Report, revealing data on new access services, hybrid fibre co-axial (HFC) services and rollout information. Highlights of the report, which cover data up to 31 March, said NBN Co was now supplying 2.07 million broadband […]
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