NBN news stories - Page 3

Polycom
Bridging the rural-urban divide with technology, collaboration and bold ideas
What needs to be brought into focus now is that issues of inequality and lack of access are not limited to emerging or developing economies.

Customer experience
How telcos can win the CX race
Maintaining a high standard of CX is now the key differentiating factor between industry leaders and laggards.

Network Infrastructure
Aussie soldiers get new broadband network in NBN - Defence Force partnership
The partnership will see almost 400 Air Force, Navy and Army sites nationwide gain access to NCN’s broadband network.

Network Infrastructure
NBN promises faster copper speeds with G.fast
The company says the G.fast technology infrastructure will enable faster speeds for FTTC or FTTB setups.

Machine learning
NBN institute new Tech Lab to improve user experience
NBN says the tech lab will explore and implement emerging technologies such as graph technology and machine learning.

NBN
New fixed wireless broadband sites for regional Australians
"This technology helps spur local businesses who employ local people.”

Westpac
LinkedIn reveals Australia’s most powerful CEO profiles
“These Power Profiles have developed their brand on LinkedIn by sharing their diverse experiences and voicing their opinion on topics that matter.”

Cloud
Optus makes the next step in nbn offerings for wholesale partners
Optus Wholesale is continuing its expansion of nbn network offerings for wholesale customers with a raft of new innovations.

Fibre
nbn announces huge revenue growth, well on track for 2020 goal
“In the past six months, nbn recorded revenue close to the total achieved in the entire fiscal 2016 year.”

Digital Transformation
The biggest stories to hit the Australian IT sector in 2016
We look back at the big stories of 2016 and what they meant for Australia’s IT decision makers, enterprises and workforce.

IDC
Decline in router spend thanks to Australia’s 4G rollout
"Enterprise sales were stagnant, with growth through the first half of 2016 tempered by the Federal elections as projects were put on hold."

Internet
Make 'em pay or take copper away? NZ & AU's different tactics to the fibre rollout
The difference between Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) & New Zealand's Ultrafast Broadband Network (UFB) rollouts is tellingly different.

Chorus
Kordia speaks out against Chorus and NZ Telco infrastructure
"New Zealand’s UFB network started off with such promise. Do we really want Chorus becoming the NBN of New Zealand?"

Telstra
ACCC examines competition implications of Telstra NBN involvement
The ACCC is looking at proposals from NBN and Telstra to address concerns around the competition implications of Telstra’s involvement in the rollout.

Vocus Communications
Vocus offers up new M2 NBN offering for resellers
Vocus Communications has launched a new product from the M2 product suite, enabling resellers to capitalise on the fast expanding NBN footprint.

Australia
Australia’s NBN rollout on track, but it is still early days
The rollout of the Australian-government funded NBN network is accelerating, with growth speeding up in the later stages of 2015.

Telecommunications
Aussie organisations: start planning for the NBN now
As the national broadband network ramps up its business-grade service provision, it’s important businesses start factoring it into their telco plans.

NBN
M2 serves up NBN wholesale offerings
M2 has entered into NBN wholesale aggregation and backhaul with the launch of NBN Connect.

Cloud
NBN releases new rollout plan
The NBN has released a new three-year construction plan with construction to 7.5 million premises due to start in the next three years.

Fibre
NBN launches FTTN, promises 'very high speeds' still achieveable
The NBN has launched its commercial fibre to the node product, saying ‘most’ end-users on the trial got wholesale speeds of 100Mbps download.

Fibre
Turbulent times for Australia's National Broadband Network
NBN Co is now facing the threat of being exposed to competition by a government ideologically committed to the free market and minimal regulation.

Australia
The mess that is Australia's NBN project
NBN Co has finally revealed details, of sorts, on what technologies it will use, and where, to provide Australian homes with fast broadband speeds.

Cloud
Optus cuts 290 Aussie jobs
Australian telco Optus is cutting 290 jobs from its marketing, IT, networks and sales departments as it tries to fight a downward spiral within the company.

Fibre
Australia's NBN Fibre network facing uncertain future
The future of Australia's nationwide fibre to the home network is looking increasingly uncertain