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Missing: 200,000 dwellings from NBN Co ready-to-connect category About 200,000 homes and businesses which were classed as "ready to connect" in November 2017 by the NBN Co have gone missing from this category of dwellings according to the company's own figures.

20th March 2018

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30% to abandon NBN for wireless: ALP report claim A new ACCC co-funded survey has been cited by the Australian Labor Party as showing that 30% of households could abandon the NBN and switch to wireless broadband. The number stands in in stark contrast to NBN Co projections.

8th February 2018

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Rowland makes NBN an issue ahead of by-election A watershed test of the effect that the still growing national broadband network fiasco has had on the fortunes of the sitting Government may be displayed at the ballot box next weekend.

14th December 2017

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Confusion over broadband speeds rife among consumers Australian consumers believe they are getting a raw deal from their Internet service providers over the speed of their broadband services, with most of them believing they aren?t getting what they signed up to, and paid for.

13th February 2017

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Telstra seals multi-million dollar global deal for Women?s Tennis Telstra has sealed a six year multi-million dollar deal to deliver a global media network solution for the Women?s Tennis Association (WTA) series of tournaments.

23rd January 2017

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Privacy czar 'concerned' about telco data leaks. Quelle surprise! It is gratifying in the extreme to know that the Australian information and privacy commissioner Timothy Pilgrim is "concerned" about "allegations" that the personal information of customers of Australian telcos is being offered for sale.

18th November 2016

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Spark NZ to move customers from ?fault prone? copper to fibre, wireless networks New Zealand?s largest telco Spark has set out on a major programme to upgrade its broadband networks across the country to move as "many as possible" of its customers off old copper networks and onto newer technologies ? fibre and wireless broadband.

3rd November 2016

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NBN drops Optus HFC in favour of FTTdp for rollout to 700,000 premises NBN Co has abandoned plans to rollout the national broadband network on the Optus HFC network for which it paid $800 million ? with the exception of one area in Queensland and will now use  fibre-to-the-distribution point (FTTdp), to deploy the network for up to 700,000 premises.

29th September 2016

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Apple & SAP team to bring HANA to iPhone; ACMA makes changes to mobile roaming standards; Malware borrows adware tricks to bypass Android security; Pact says cloud is best for growth; Verizon DBIR a real eye opener; Ericsson & partners support nbn Sky Muster broadband services delivery; NEC will recognise you.

6th May 2016

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ACMA sanctions Macquarie Telecom over public database breaches Macquarie Telecom has been sanctioned by the Australian Communications and Media Authority for contravening the Telecommunications Act and failing to upload customer data for some of its landline and mobile services to the Integrated Public Number Database (IPND). NZ Commerce Commission reviewing ?non-price? terms for Chorus? UBA

8th April 2016