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NBN Co reaches agreement with Syntheo over NBN
It has been announced by the Broadband Minister Stephen Conroy that NBN Co has reached an agreement with a Lend Lease and Service Stream joint venture, Syntheo, over the next stage of the NBN rollout in SA and the Northern Territory. Stephen Conroy, the Australian Broadband Minister, recently announced that NBN ...
UWA gets grant for broadband research
Whilst we all take broadband services for granted, without the hard work of researchers and technology giants this is a valuable facility that we might never have had in our lives. Research into broadband services is vital to advancements and now the UWA has received a grant to carry out ...
Axing NBN would help federal budget
Opposition leader Tony Abbott has once again been highlighting the benefits of getting rid of the government’s National Broadband Network, stating that it could help to avoid further federal deficits. Most people are well aware that the Opposition leader, Tony Abbott, is not the biggest fan of the government’s pride ...
Businesses will enjoy significant benefits by using NBN enabled teleworking
The high-speed National Broadband Network that is currently being deployed throughout Australia could be of huge benefit to businesses by helping their employees to work from home according to a recent report. A new report that has been welcomed by Senator Stephen Conroy, the minister for Broadband, communication and the digital ...
Thousands in South Australia to get NBN access over the next year
NBN Co has recently said that over the course of the next year around seventy five thousand homes and businesses in South Australia will be able to get access to the National Broadband Network. Officials from NBN Co, which is the company in charge of rolling out the National Broadband Network ...
NBN Co cuts contracts with RSPs to one year
NBN Co, which is heading up the National Broadband Network rollout in the United States, has decided to cut its contracts with Retail Service Providers to one year instead of five. Following criticism from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the company that is heading up the National Broadband Network ...
NBN to breathe new life into regional Australia
Many believe that the NBN rollout will help to breathe new life into regional Australia, potentially increasing the number of people moving to these areas and the number of businesses being set up. The ongoing rollout of the National Broadband Network in Australia has been met with mixed reviews, with ...
ACCC advise that it may be more expensive to roll out an FTTN NBN
With the distinct possibility that the National Broadband Network will be upgraded to a fibre to the premises network the competition watchdog, the ACCC has advised that rolling out a cable broadband network to the node would be an expensive waste of money. The deployment of a fibre-to-the-node network would be ...
Victorian government believes NBN rollout is unfair
The Victorian government in Australia has recently described the rollout of the National Broadband Network as being unfair, stating that Victorians are not being given enough priority. Whilst the NBN is going full steam ahead with the rollout in Australia, not everyone is happy with the way in which the rollout ...
Wollongong businesses will benefit from NBN
An IT firm from Wollongong has recently highlighted how the NBN will help businesses in the area to compete more effectively with companies that are based on larger cities and areas. As most people know, access to high speed broadband is something that businesses all around the world have come ...
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