By Paul Hemsley Minister for Communications Senator Stephen Conroy’s frenetic rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN) has been extended to the City of South Perth where the government says construction is reaching its final stages in the area. The City of South Perth announced that the first fibre cable was dug into the town […]
2 April, 2013
Staff writers Prime Minister Julia Gillard has declared that the National Broadband Network (NBN) will be rolled out in the Far North Coast of New South Wales in a three year plan with the regional area of Murwillumbah to be the first of many locations to receive the fibre network. The PM visited the Murwillumbah […]
26 March, 2013
Staff writers NBN Co, the federal government’s executor of the National Broadband Network (NBN) has awarded a contract to Visionstream to roll out fibre optic broadband in Victoria, Queensland and southern New South Wales from the NBN exchange to the box outside the home. Visionstream has been selected in NBN Co’s contract worth $334 million […]
19 March, 2013
By Paul Hemsley Federal Minister for Communications, Stephen Conroy has continued the electoral push for the National Broadband Network (NBN) in Western Sydney amid Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s controversial election campaign operation stationed in the western suburb of Rooty Hill. Senator Conroy drew attention to the fact that NBN fibre construction has been ramping up […]
7 March, 2013
Staff writers The rollout of the National Broadband Network is primed to go into orbit after the company responsible for delivering the massive project signed-off on a $300 million deal with European satellite launch company Arianespace to put two new telecommunications ‘birds’ above Australia. Scheduled to launch in 2015, the new satellites are intended to […]
4 March, 2013
By Julian Bajkowski The already bitter war of words over the progress of the rollout of the National Broadband Network has intensified after federal Communications Minister Stephen Conroy pounced on a dissenting report from a Coalition members of a Parliamentary Committee delving into the project to rekindle accusations that the Opposition is plotting to “demolish” […]
28 February, 2013
Julian Bajkowski Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy and New South Wales Premier Barry O’Farrell have celebrated Valentine’s Day by burying the hatchet and welcoming the expansion of software giant Adobe’s operations in Sydney with a cross-party bro-mance. Stepping out at the opening of Adobe’s new offices in downtown Darling Park, the pair put niceties to […]
15 February, 2013
By Paul Hemsley Federal Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Stephen Conroy has slotted another piece of the National Broadband Network (NBN) puzzle into place, rolling out the new fibre optic infrastructure in Hobart, Tasmania. Hobart’s connection to the NBN closely follows the Tasmanian government inking a deal with internet service provider iiNet […]
11 February, 2013
By Paul Hemsley Federal Minister for Communications, Broadband and the Digital Economy Stephen Conroy has advanced the spread of the National Broadband Network (NBN) in the New South Wales regional Northern Rivers with fixed wireless technology. The federal government has rolled out the NBN infrastructure in the remote region of the Northern Rivers located on […]
7 February, 2013
By Paul Hemsley Federal Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Stephen Conroy’s race to plug-in as many towns as possible to the National Broadband Network (NBN) before the election has continued unabashed, with newbie Canberra satellite city of Gungahlin the latest to see the fibre optic light. Gungahlin is among the earliest suburbs […]
4 February, 2013
By Paul Hemsley Federal Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Stephen Conroy has rolled the National Broadband Network (NBN) into the Queensland regional area of Toowoomba. The Toowoomba region is the latest area of Queensland to connect to the NBN after its first fibre optic cable was installed in October 2012. The rollout […]
1 February, 2013
By Paul Hemsley The Tasmanian Government has selected iiNet as its preferred internet service provider for the state’s Department of Police and Emergency Management to plug into the National Broadband Network (NBN). The deal will link the core network between police stations and the state government. The rollout of the NBN across Tasmania has […]
29 January, 2013
By Paul Hemsley The federal government has started installing National Broadband Network (NBN) fibre optic cable into the Western Sydney suburb of Penrith in an effort boost business and employment in the area. The rollout of the NBN in Penrith is the latest in the federal government’s nationwide project to install fibre optic cables underground […]
21 January, 2013
By Paul Hemsley The National Broadband Network has laid out its plans to work with South Australian regional local governments to fire-up fast wireless broadband connectivity to far flung premises as the regional rollout of the massive project continues. The planned connection to wireless broadband is intended to address a lack of adequate internet communications […]
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