NBN Co targets businesses with new services
NBN Co is targeting medium-sized businesses with the launch of its new symmetric network packages.
NBN Co is targeting medium-sized businesses with the launch of its new symmetric network packages.
Malcolm Turnbull has been spruiking 12Mbps minimum broadband for years. Suddenly, it’s "just not satisfactory" — and it's OK for him to continue to dodge any substantive questions around the Coalition’s plan. Maybe that’s because nobody's asking them.
The National Broadband Network — a massive undertaking which needs a stellar team behind it. We delve into the team, telling you where they came from and what makes them tick.
NBN Co is becoming a parody of itself as new CEO Bill Morrow strongarms would-be competitors and a multi billion dollar organisation justifies a 180-degree policy turnaround on the back of a single, non-representative speed test.
The NBN was for years such a hot-button topic that the country couldn't say enough about it. Yet as the Coalition government lets the current rollout coast, one conference organiser found there was nothing worth saying about it.
Six months on, and there's so little excitement around the NBN that an industry conference was cancelled because there was nothing to discuss. Welcome to the Coalition's NBN: lowering expectations and rewriting history until the project is so unambitious and boring that we'd rather just watch the footy.
Attendees at this week's CommsDay Summit, who represented most of the telecoms industry, were disappointed when Malcolm Turnbull had to pull out at the last minute after being called to Canberra. But as the industry show-and-tell rolled on, it was interesting to see the overall spirit of acceptance and pro-activity that is, in the absence of politics, driving the industry to look towards the future.
Respondents to an NBN survey have said that access to telehealth would be convenient, save money and time, and provide more options for those living in regional areas.
The appointment of Internode founder Simon Hackett has broadly been met with approval by all sides of the NBN debate, but will his role be to better advise NBN Co, or to stop being a vocal, and well-informed critic of the NBN?