Latest Broadband News

22 May 2013
News: What's life really like on the NBN? (Part II)

Kiama is perhaps best known for its ocean views and a blowhole that spouts water up to 25m in the air.
21 May 2013
News: NBN v UFB: Migration is the key

Should there by a change of government after the Australian elections in September, there will be a major review of National Broadband Network (NBN) operations and progress to date. The opposition has signalled personnel changes in the management and the board of NBN Co.
News: Spotify's 1st birthday in Oz: top artists, top albums, and all the stats

It's Spotify's first birthday -- the incredibly popular music streaming service, which boasts millions of tracks and thousands of albums from mainstream and independent artists, has been around in Australia for a year as of today.
20 May 2013
News: M2 aids e-governance program for senior citizens

Telco service provider and part of the M2 Telecommunications Group (ASX: MTU), iPrimus, has aided in the delivery of the Digital Local Government Program alongside the City of Whittlesea
15 May 2013
News: Broadcasters say 700MHz auction showed lack of demand

Broadcasters and the mobile industry had different takeaways about the level of demand for spectrum in Australia after the government failed to sell all of the 700MHz spectrum in the Digital Dividend auction.
13 May 2013
News: Samsung to launch 5G by 2020

Samsung has announced developments in 5G which it claims will mean the technology could launch by 2020.
News: Samsung tests first 5G broadband

Super-fast 5G broadband transmits data in the millimetre-wave band at a frequency of 28GHz at a speed of up to 1.056Gbps to a distance of up to 2 kilometres.
06 May 2013
News: Conroy and Turnbull lock horns over NBN

Minister for broadband and communications, Stephen Conroy, and coalition communications spokesman, Malcolm Turnbull, have spelled out their differences over the NBN issues in an online forum, Communications Debate.
News: 1.35 million premises added to NBN construction timetable

NBN Co has unveiled the names of the communities that are next in line to receive high-speed fibre optic broadband.
30 April 2013
News: Qualcomm calls for shared in-home cells to handle mobile demand

Consumers will have to share small, inexpensive cells in their homes with nearby mobile users to affordably meet the growing demand for mobile data in the next decade, a Qualcomm executive said Tuesday.
News: Telehealth vendors not fazed by NBN debate

The NBN will be a boon to Australian healthcare regardless of which political party has its way on the final technology approach for delivery, officials from health IT vendors said at a lunch in Sydney.
News: O2 signs deal with BT for 4G LTE network support

O2 has struck a 10 year with BT to support 4G LTE mobile broadband for its customers.
News: Skype launches for Outlook.com email service

A preview of Skype for Outlook.com has launched in the UK today.
25 April 2013
News: Amazon to rival Apple TV with its own set-top box

Amazon is reportedly building its own set-top box to rival Apple's TV.
21 April 2013
News: NBN delay would harm competition: CCC

Any delay to the National Broadband Network (NBN) rollout as a result of political tinkering would harm competition, according to the Competitive Carriers Coalition (CCC).
19 April 2013
News: VSDL2 on steroids takes off as broadband over copper declines for first time

Broadband based on VDSL2 helped by a technology called vectoring is taking off, while older members of the DSL family are getting less popular as users around the works crave more bandwidth.
News: Senators shred coalition $90b broadband claims

Minister for finance and deregulation, Senator Penny Wong, and minister for broadband, communications and the digital economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, have slammed the assumptions underpinning the Coalition’s costing of Labor’s NBN.
18 April 2013
News: John Lewis Broadband free with tech purchases

John Lewis has announced that it will give away free broadband with in-store technology purchases such as tablets.
17 April 2013
News: Broadband to aid in app delivery: CSIRO

The next generation of broadband-enabled applications will be more about connecting households to new sensors and Cloud services than checking emails and social media invites, according to Australian national science agency, CSIRO.
News: Coalition NBN plan provides certainty: Macquarie Telecom

Macquarie Telecom has said the Coalition’s NBN announcement is “great news” for businesses because it brings certainty that there will be an NBN if there is a change of government.