CommsWire - 19 May 2017

New Zealand delivers cheaper high-end broadband than Australia Zealand's competition enforcement and regulatory agency, the Commerce Commission, says the country?s consumers are receiving increased value for money across a range of telecommunications services and broadband plans, with some fibre voice and broadband plans costing significantly less than the equivalent Australian plans.

CommsWire - 18 May 2017

Vodafone smashes Telstra, Optus on consumer complaints rate Vodafone has trumpeted a 22% decline in the rate of consumer complaints between the December and March quarters ? and a complaints ratio for the March quarter more than 50% lower than the industry average.

CommsWire - 12 May 2017

Morrow upbeat as NBN hits $665 million in revenues The National Broadband Network brought in total revenues of $665 million for the nine months to the end of March ? up by 142% compared to the third quarter of 2016 ? with the number of residential and business premises now able to order a service reaching 4.6 million across Australia.

CommsWire - 5 May 2017

ALP: botched NBN rollout threatens emergency services Two federal Labor Shadow Ministers have slammed the National Broadband Network over a ?botched? rollout which they say left emergency services in a remote part of Western Australia without satellite communications services.

CommsWire - 26 April 2017

NBN rockets to new speed high in Gigabit wireless trial NBN Co is cock-a-hoop over a speed trial in which the network hit speeds of 1.1Gbps downstream and 165mbps upstream in a recent fixed wireless demonstration in Ballarat attended by CommsWire.

CommsWire - 20 April 2017

Telco positions escape 457 visa axing Telecommunications jobs have largely been unaffected by the scrapping of the 457 visa skilled migration program announced this week by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

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The Australian telecommunications industry has been slow to call for or to adopt new practices and the National Broadband Network has exacerbated the problem of technology adoption lag. The cost of optical networking has significantly reduced over the past five years so there is no justification for the network congestion that occurs on Australian telecommunication networks.

CommsWire - 11 April 2017

Tucker: Australia locked out of world class broadband Australia?s increasing use of fibre to the node (FTTN) has locked the country out of world-class broadband for years to come. If Australia is ever to obtain first-class broadband services, it will be necessary to replace FTTN with higher speed technologies says Professor Rod Tucker.

CommsWire - 7 April 2017

Telstra, Google join consortium to build Asia Pacific subsea cable system A consortium of major tech players, including Telstra and Google, has joined forces to build a new international subsea cable system under an agreement with Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN).

CommsWire - 6 April 2017

NBN Co hiding poor technology from users, says expert The NBN Co has not undertaken any demonstrations to show Australians what kind of speeds are needed to get good response times when streaming videos, because to do so would show the inadequacy of the technology being used, a network expert says.