ACCC starts breaking out Vodafone NBN customer connections
Vodafone Australia is sitting around the level of Aussie Broadband and MyRepublic in the latest ACCC Wholesale Market Indicators Report.
Vodafone Australia is sitting around the level of Aussie Broadband and MyRepublic in the latest ACCC Wholesale Market Indicators Report.
Of the menagerie of original sins with the NBN, the urge for it to be cashflow positive as quickly as possible keeps returning to hurt everyone involved.
NBN CEO Bill Morrow has defended claims that there is 'minimal' demand for 1Gbps broadband, saying the upgrade paths on most of its network technologies will enable gigabit speeds by the time demand does arise.
Over 420,000 more customers will receive fixed-wireless and fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) broadband services after an NBN Co review recommended an additional 1300 wireless towers be built – at an additional cost of $1.7 billion – to prevent latent demand from swamping satellite services to be launched in 2016.
Ed Husic and Kate Lundy had the strongest profiles on ICT issues, but their omission from Bill Shorten's front bench leaves great uncertainty around who will be appointed to hold Turnbull's NBN to account. But will it even matter who is chosen?
Critics of the NBN have pointed to wireless as the future of connectivity, but the numbers do not back up the claims made thus far.
NBN Co significantly increased the revenue it picked up in the second half of 2012, but the Australian government-owned company still reported a loss of over AU$400 million.
In this feature, ZDNet explores how fibre deployments across the UK, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States are being achieved, at what cost, whether they have been successful, and how they compare to Australia's NBN.
If you're going to design a network and call it consumer-grade, it actually has to be able to cope with the massive data demands of your average consumer.
Does Willunga disprove the myth that the NBN will only be popular with those who can afford it?