Latest Broadband Articles
- 27 September 2013
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News: Vue sets up fibre optic network to meet cinema fan demand
Vue has rolled out a new fibre optic broadband network to connect its chain of UK cinemas, allowing staff to monitor screens from a centralised locations and react more quickly to customer demand for popular films.
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News: Ziggy Switkowski to face challenges leading the NBN: academic
Former Telstra CEO Ziggy Switkowski is tipped to become NBN Co's newest chief executive, but one academic has predicted he may struggle in the role.
- 26 September 2013
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Roku 3 comes to the UK
Roku has refreshed its range of internet media streamers and brought the Roku 3 to the UK.
- 25 September 2013
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News: New Verizon broadband router supports data and voice
Verizon Wireless today announced a new broadband router that works over its LTE network and allows voice and data connectivity for the home or small business.
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News: TalkTalk offers unlimited broadband for £2.50
TalkTalk has launched two new entertainment packages including broadband for just £2.50 per month and YouView for £7.50.
- 24 September 2013
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News: Government to temporarily continue NBN rollout
More than 600,000 homes, businesses and schools across the country still have a chance of being connected to fibre-to-the-premises broadband despite the coalition's vow to abandon the former government's plan.
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News: Mobile broadband fastest growing technology in history
Mobile broadband uptake is growing at 30 per cent per year, according to the 2013 State of the Broadband report, and will be the fastest growing technology in history.
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News: eBay offers 'click and collect' via Argos
eBay has announced a deal which will allow customers to collect items from Argos.
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News: Telecom wins Inmarsat contract to develop satellite access station
Mobile satellite communications services provider, Inmarsat, has awarded Telecom NZ the contract to build and manage one of its Pacific Ocean Region (POR) satellite access stations (SAS) for Global Xpress (GX).
- 23 September 2013
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News: Telecom argues for certainty through lower copper input price
In its ‘pro-certainty' submission to the ‘Review of the Telecommunications Act 2001: Discussion Document', Telecom NZ, argues the input price for wholesale access to copper broadband should be at the bottom end of the Government's proposed ranged.
- 21 September 2013
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News: Optus taps Visionstream for 4G LTE build
Visionstream has won a $240 million contract with Optus to build and upgrade mobile sites for the number-two telco's LTE network in Australia.
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News: Open access networks and the NBN – the winners and losers
A Coalition NBN could allow more private companies to develop networks that compete with the National Broadband Network (NBN), with TPG announcing this week that it was launching fibre-to-the-basement (FTTB) plans.
- 11 September 2013
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News: 91k issue plea to Abbott on NBN
Nearly 92,000 people have issued a plea to prime minister elect Tony Abbott to continue the National Broadband Network (NBN) with a fibre-to-the-home plan, instead of the Coalition's proposed fibre-to-the-node plan.
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News: Telstra moves ahead with throttling trial
Telstra has kicked off a controversial network management trial in Victoria, eight months after the telco announced it would trial peer-to-peer throttling.
- 10 September 2013
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News: Netflix comes to TiVo
Vrigin Media has announced a deal with Netflix which will see the streaming service available to TiVo customers.
- 09 September 2013
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News: Lawyer: Verizon should be able to block websites
Verizon Communications should be able to block its broadband customers from going to websites that refuse to pay the provider to deliver their traffic, a lawyer for Verizon told an appeals court Monday.
- 06 September 2013
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News: Chorus welcomes Transfield's payment assurance
Broadband infrastructure company, Chorus, has labelled Transfield's failure to pay New Zealand-based sub-contractors as "unacceptable," but welcomes the Australian company's assurance it is urgently looking to amend the issue.
- 05 September 2013
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News: Net neutrality at the US FCC: A brief history
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality regulations, also known as open Internet rules, face a hearing on Monday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Verizon Communications has challenged the FCC's authority to pass the rules.
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News: NBN could add $3800 in benefits: Deloitte
A new Deloitte Access Economics report prepared for the federal government estimates households will be worth $3800 more in 2020 through improved productivity from the National Broadband Network (NBN).
- 03 September 2013
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News: Bedfordshire councils sign £12 million fibre broadband deal with BT
Bedfordshire councils have signed a £12 million rural fibre broadband deal with BT.
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