Broadband network hangs in the balance

The difference between the major parties is no more apparent than on the issue of the proposed National Broadband Network, with the Opposition deeming it an expensive white elephant, while the Government is extolling it as the means to propel Australia into a digital future. Only the outcome of the upcoming...

National Broadband Map

The National Broadband Map is a visual representation of New Zealands broadband landscape. It has been created to graphically represent broadband supplier network footprints alongside geocoded points, which indicate potential broadband demand locations. The Map takes publicly available government location...

Internode brings broadband to more housing estates

New $99 router deal also stitched up. ISP Internode has struck a deal with greenfields fibre network operator OPENetworks to offer retail internet services into at least one new housing estate. Product manager Jim Kellett told iTnews the deal, inked yesterday, would see Internode offer the same plans it...

Google fibre method “could save NBN $10 billion”

Aussie firm eyes NBN work. A fibre-laying technique being used by Google in an experimental US fibre network project could reduce the cost of the NBN by up to $10 billion, according to a local company that has licensed the technology.Broadband Network Communications (BBNC) had tendered to use...

NBN Co reaches out to first-release residents

Free fibre offer – but no guarantees. Residents in two of the first five mainland test sites for the national broadband network will this week receive letters from NBN Co offering free connections from their homes to the network. NBN Co chief executive Mike Quigley said today that residents of Kiama...

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