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NBN Co failed to provide information to the shareholder minister, as required by financial regulations; and CEO Stephen Rue departs for Optus.

State governments could well flip from NBN to the faster, cheaper alternative of low earth orbit satellites especially for critical services.

Senate estimates told Low Earth Orbiting Satellites (LEOS) are a potential fix for enduring internet lagging and mobile blackspots.

Smart, super-connected cities and communities are still hot, but for all the wrong reasons, say cyber defenders.

A new statement of expectations to the NBN says the government does not expect the organisation to be profitable in all cases.

A more holistic and complementary approach to infrastructure and communications is quickly taking shape under the Albanese government.

An employment summit bringing unions and employer groups together to thrash out how to improve wages and ensure productivity will be held by a Labor government.

At this point, in the lead-up to the next federal election, Labor’s NBN policy is superior to that of the Coalition.

The federal government is promising higher speeds and bigger data limits for NBN customers in regional, rural and remote parts of Australia.

More than 2,000 public schools across NSW will recieve internet upgrades in a $328 deal between the state government telecommunications giant Telstra. Minister for Education Sarah Mitchell today announced an expected tenfold increase in internet speed across NSW’s public schools system, with more than 5,200 kilometres of fibre slated to be laid down. “This upgrade […]

Altogether the upgrade is expected to give about six million households access to internet speeds of up to one gigabit per second. But how will the existing infrastructure be boosted? And who will miss out?

A major upgrade to Australia’s National Broadband Network will see 75% of all fixed-line premises in Australia receive ultra-fast broadband speeds by 2023.

A project the Coalition said would cost less than $30 billion has so far blown out beyond $50 billion, and they’re still counting. And apart from its self-inflicted wounds, NBN Co is facing a serious threat from 5G.