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Increased competition to boost Internet interconnection market: ACCC Australia’s competition watchdog, the ACCC, says recent developments in the wholesale market for internet interconnection services will boost competition in the supply of internet connectivity and hosted services to corporate and government customers.

24th October 2018

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Here we go again: encryption bill will make us all unsafe COMMENT: Monday is the last day on which Australians can submit their statements of support or opposition to the proposed Assistance and Access bill which seeks to force people or organisations to allow access to encrypted communications.

10th September 2018

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ACCC reports third of NBN users now on 'higher speed plans' Residential broadband customers "continue to shift to higher speed NBN plans, with more than one third of all NBN services now on 50Mbps plans, according to the ACCC’s tenth quarterly Wholesale Market Indicators Report released today".

13th August 2018

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Aussie Broadband beats the rest in ACCC's second speed report Large broadband providers hang your heads in shame. Small broadband provider Aussie Broadband has come out on top in the second report from the ACCC's broadband speed monitoring program, achieving 88.3% of download speed and 89.1% of upload speeds for a plan during the busy period.

31st July 2018

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Telstra, Optus get low ranking on consumer customer service scorecard Australia’s two biggest telcos — Telstra and Optus — fared poorly in a survey of Australian telecommunications consumers who say they are unimpressed by the amount of time they spend getting a resolution to a telco issue.

23rd July 2018

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NBN Co says one million have upgraded to faster NBN speeds in last four months NBN Co has reported the number of Australian homes and business connected to higher speed NBN plans "has more than doubled with new figures revealing more than one million people have upgraded their Internet speeds in the last four months."

16th April 2018

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NBN Co says one million have upgraded to faster NBN speeds in last four months NBN Co has reported the number of Australian homes and business connected to higher speed NBN plans "has more than doubled with new figures revealing more than one million people have upgraded their Internet speeds in the last four months."

16th April 2018

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Four big ISPs achieving good NBN speeds, says ACCC The first report from the ACCC's broadband monitoring programme shows that NBN services from iiNet, Optus, Telstra and TPG are achieving between 80% and a little over 90% of the maximum plan speeds during the busy evening period.

3rd April 2018

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Telstra speeding up connections for NBN broadband users Telstra is boosting Internet speeds for almost a million of its home and small business customers with a National Broadband Network speed upgrade to the standard plus NBN 50 speed tier.

2nd March 2018

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Turnbull hooks up to NBN at 100Mbps Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has 100Mbps connections to the NBN at his home in Point Piper and at Kirribilli House.

1st March 2018