NBN Speeds
Newsletter
Telstra wins umlaut's Australian Mobile benchmark Telstra has won Best in Test with an overall score of 891 out of 1000, made up of three categories voice, data and crowdsourcing quality. Vocus New Zealand harnesses SoftIron’s HyperDrive range to power its DataHub storage infrastructure Telecommunications services Vocus New Zealand taps data centre solutions SoftIron to set up and power its new DataHub storage infrastructure.
6th December 2021
Newsletter
Telco sector further extends measures to assist customers affected by COVID-19 and ACCAN response The Communication Alliance (CommsAlliance) announced that Australia’s telecommunications providers have agreed to extend the operating principles put in place by the industry to help keep people connected throughout COVID-19 and assist with financial hardship resulting from the pandemic.
30th June 2021
Newsletter
Apologies for no CommsWire yesterday, our mail server had a hiccup, but we're back online today! Very high speed NBN plans gaining ground: ACCC A record number of Australian households have moved to very high speed NBN plans, according to the ACCC, with the number of connections in the 500Mbps to 1000Mbps space growing from 9924 to 83,000 by the end of March.
21st May 2021
Newsletter
Australia finishes 62nd in world broadband speed rankings, NZ stands 23rd Australia has fared poorly among nations that managed to qualify for the 2020 Worldwide Broadband Speed League which looked at the speeds in 221 countries, being ranked 62nd with an average download speed of 25.65Mbps, and trailing New Zealand which finished 23rd with an average of 66.66Mbps.
4th September 2020
Newsletter
Global smartphone sales plummet 20% in second quarter Global sales of smartphones fell by a fifth (20.4%) in the second quarter of the year, the technology research firm Gartner says, adding that this meant only 295 million units were sold during the period.
26th August 2020
Newsletter
NBN speeds, performance decline, then recover after COVID 19 demands NBN speeds and performance declined as Australians followed social distancing instructions to stay home due to COVID-19, but picked up following measures by NBN Co and streaming providers, according to the competition regulator, the ACCC.
21st May 2020
Newsletter
Knowing their NBN speed brings satisfaction to consumers Consumers who know what their NBN plan’s ‘typical evening speed’ should be are more satisfied with their provider (78%) than those who do not know (68.1%) according to a new research report.
30th August 2019
Newsletter
‘Underperforming’ broadband services still a problem: ACCC Underperforming broadband services are still a problem for some consumers, with a newly publish report revealing that 12.4% of consumers continue to experience underperforming services that “rarely come close to reaching their maximum plan speed”.
7th August 2019
Newsletter
ACMA NBN modem testing shows 5GHz band better for Wi-Fi A test of 43 modems used on fibre-to-the-node and fibre-to-the-building NBN connections indicates that use of the 5GHz band is much better than 2.4GHz when it comes to Wi-Fi throughput.
6th July 2019
Newsletter
New rules give stronger protections to consumers: ACMA The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), says telco consumers will now be better protected under new consumer protection rules it has just introduced.
2nd July 2019