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ACCC chair says NBN should be treated as sunk cost in any efforts to recoup spend

ACCC maintains the 25-50Mbps down and 5-20Mbps up Fixed Wireless Plus plan is sufficient for most households.

February 17, 2022 by Campbell Kwan

Kate McKenzie shifts to NBN chair as Switkowski departs at year end

Former Telstra CEO to be replaced by former Telstra COO, and a former Telstra enterprise chief joins the board.

November 21, 2021 by Chris Duckett

Labor commits to making AU$2.4b 'investment' to extend on-demand FttN upgrades

The pledge to extend current FttN upgrades to a further 1.5 million premises would still leave 10% on copper.

November 16, 2021 by Chris Duckett

NBN contracting system described as 'pink batts on overdrive'

Labor references its own contracting disaster as subcontractors detail issues at the coalface of NBN work.

September 14, 2021 by Chris Duckett

NBN clears positive full-year EBITDA hurdle for first time

Revenue has increased 21% and EBITDA has turned around by AU$2 billion for NBN.

August 9, 2021 by Chris Duckett

Usual suspects return as NBN parts with AU$1.1 billion for FttN upgrades

Contracts of various sizes awarded to Downer, Fulton Hogan, Lendlease, and Visionstream.

July 13, 2021 by Chris Duckett

ACMA found Telstra kept 50,000 users on NBN plans their copper could not hit

Over a period of two years, Telstra did not provide customers with the option to degrade when their copper was not up to scratch.

July 6, 2021 by Chris Duckett

Dodo and iPrimus penalised AU$2.5m for misleading NBN evening speed claims

Australian Federal Court has ruled Vocus-owned telcos misled consumers about evening internet speeds by listing an average speed that was calculated using only the fastest speeds observed on their respective networks.

June 1, 2021 by Campbell Kwan

Budget 2021: NBN has repaid AU$5.5 billion of its AU$19.5 billion government loan

NBN Co, in the Budget papers, is revealed to have made a AU$3 billion and AU$2.6 billion payment in past six months.

May 11, 2021 by Chris Duckett

NBN residential ARPU remains stuck at AU$45

Revenue is up 23% to AU$3.5 billion for the nine months to March 31, but the average spend per user is stuck well below NBN's stated aim of AU$51.

May 6, 2021 by Chris Duckett