Tag Archives: NBN

NBN: Service to Cost $100 a Month?

There was an possibly alarming report late today in the Australian IT section in regards to the potential for an end user service on the NBN likely to cost in the vicinity of $100 per month. Service To Cost $100 A Month This “information” comes from Internode – a notoriously anti-Rudd/anti-Conroy ISP – but does […]

NBN: Nation Building?

Yesterday’s announcement of the scrapping of the Request for Proposal (RFP) process for Australia’s upcoming National Broadband Network (NBN), and therefore the federal government’s plans to go it alone in building the network has raised a lot of questions, and sparked much heated discussion within the industry. NBN Plan Scrapped; Govt Seeks New Partners Without […]

NBN: Not Just The Internet

There’s been a lot of debate and controversy since yesterday’s federal government announcement in regards to the National Broadband Network (NBN). The doomsayers would have you believe that this is a massive white elephant, and that we should not be paying so much for potentially 100Mb connections to the home. The bottom line is, you […]

NBN: Lives Up To It’s Name

In something of a shock to the industry, the federal government announced the winning bidder for it’s National Broadband Network (NBN) project. And the winner is……….nobody! Well, not one of the bidders, anyway. The government decided that none of the bidders actually satisfied their requirements, so they are going to form their own company to […]

Sorry Telstra!

Telstra are already whinging after being excluded from the National Broadband Network (NBN) tender process, after submitting a non-compliant bid. What did they expect? Telstra Loses $6bn in NBN Hit The bottom line is, even if their bid was compliant, their projected cost of $39.95 per user, per month, for 12Mb speeds, with only 200MB […]

Australia to Get FttP Network?

Finally some common sense in regards to Australia’s pending National Broadband Network (NBN), currently in the tender stage. The government proposal is for a Fibre-to-the-Node (FttN) solution, with a target minimum of 12Mb end-user speed, using current xDSL technology for “last mile” reach into customer premises. However, Canadian-based bidder, Axia NetMedia have revealed many of […]