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Australia's broadband network wholesaler NBN Co has conducted a live field trial over its Hybrid Fibre Coaxial (HFC) network, in which it demonstrated multi-gigabit download speeds.

The government has introduced a new bill to maintain wholesale broadband operator National Broadband Network (NBN) in public ownership.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) announced it included Elon Musk's telco Starlink as a reporting entity under the Internet Activity Record Keeping and Reporting Rules.

Mobile provider amaysim introduces NBN internet plans to challenge the dominance of bigger telco players in the market.

GUEST EVENT: TelSoc (the Telecommunications Association) is pleased to welcome a particularly distinguished speaker for this year's Charles Todd Oration, coinciding with the 150th anniversary of the association, since its initial formation as the Telegraph Electrical Society in 1874.

Wholesale broadband operator NBN Co has appointed Vocus CEO Ellie Sweeney as its new CEO.

More than 500,000 premises across Western Australia (WA) are eligible for fibre upgrades on the NBN network, wholesale broadband operator NBN Co claimed.

The market share of major Australian telcos slightly declined while smaller telcos saw a slight increase, according to the NBN Wholesale Market Indicators Report, prepared quarterly for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) by wholesale broadband operator NBN Co.

Wholesale broadband operator NBN Co claimed it reduced power consumption across its fixed wireless network by 5%, estimated to deliver a reduction of 850 metric tonnes of CO2 emissions.

Regional, rural and remote communication solutions provider Pivotel, the Connectivity Innovation Network (CIN) and Roobuck have been jointly awarded a grant of $1.5 million under the Telecommunications Disaster Resilience Innovation (TDRI) program, to support the next phase of the pilot Large Area WiFi project.

Around 13,000 new homes in Sydney’s south-west can “look forward to nbn’s fastest residential speeds” with a major fibre rollout following a multi-million-dollar partnership between Walker Corporation and NBN Co.

In November, Singtel Optus will get a new chief executive when the current chief executive of the NBN Co, Stephen Rue, switches seats and takes over the reins of Australia's second biggest telco.

Stephen Rue, chief executive of the National Broadband Company, has announced he is stepping down from the post after almost a decade working for the firm.

Wholesale broadband provider NBN Co completed what it calls the first live network demonstration of multiple next-generation PON technologies, leveraging Nokia’s fibre Lightspan access platform.

Broadband speed performance in the peak-demand period of 7-11pm (busy hours) has improved significantly for users of NBN ‘Home Ultrafast’ 1000 Mbps services, following the removal of capacity-based charging under NBN Co’s new wholesale pricing structure, according to the competition regulator, the ACCC.

NBN Co has successfully raised EUR 1.3 billion (A$2.16 billion equivalent) from its second Euro Green Bonds issuance in the European debt capital markets.

Smaller broadband providers, Aussie Broadband, Vocus and Superloop, gained over 62,000 NBN wholesale services in the December 2023 quarter as the total number of residential broadband services on the NBN remained steady, according to the competition watchdog the ACCC’s latest market indicators report.

Superloop Limited has appointed Dean Tognella as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), a role he has acted in since 23 October 2023.

NBN Co, the company rolling out Australia's national broadband network, has recorded a half-year loss of $696 million for the first six months of fiscal 2024, more than a third over the corresponding six months of fiscal 2023.

Australian telco TPG claims a "sizeable number" of Internet users are suffering from connectivity problems and feel "a real need for speed".