Industry bodies have welcomed the federal government's move to keep the NBN in public ownership, while the opposition has accused the Prime Minister of running a scare campaign.
NBN Co has reported a jump in revenue to $4.6 billion, after connecting nearly a million more residential and business premises to the network in the past 12 months.
NBN Co says it has connected 670,000 premises in the March quarter, with 11.2 million homes and businesses connected to the broadband network by March 31.
Data demand in Western Australia has surged more than 50 per cent since the state government introduced broad social distancing measures, according to latest figures from NBN Co.
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The federal government has today announced new and renewed appointments to its Takeovers Panel including Perth-based John McGlue, Shirley In't Veld and Denise McComish.
The consumer watchdog says 5G mobile technology could become a substitute for the National Broadband Network, on the same day NBN Co launched its new business-grade product.
NBN Co will have to pay internet providers a $25 rebate for every late connection, fault repair or missed appointment under a new requirement enforced by the consumer watchdog.
More Australian homes and businesses are connecting to higher-speed services on the National Broadband Network, while NBN said today it had more than doubled revenue in the first nine months of the financial year.
The NBN is still not meeting consumer expectations, with complaints continuing to rise as more homes and businesses connect to the network, the industry ombudsman says.
The number of Australia homes and businesses connected to faster national broadband speed plans has more than doubled thanks to NBN Co's temporary discounted pricing, which the company says will be superseded by new bundles from May.
TPG Telecom has lifted its full-year guidance after first-half underlying profit rose, but the internet provider's two subsidiaries, iiNet and Internode, are being forced to compensate 11,000 customers following an investigation by the consumer watchdog.
Congestion on the national broadband network has eased as more customers turn to higher speed plans after rollout company NBN Co slashed its top speed packages last year.
The consumer watchdog will review the standard of service NBN Co delivers to retailers as the largest retailer, Telstra, warns of slim margins due to the wholesale price NBN Co charges.
Telstra's plan to pay down debt and create new shareholder returns by monetising the receipts from the national broadband network has been rejected by the rollout company.
More than 2.5 million Australian families, individuals and businesses are now going online through the National Broadband Network, the competition watchdog says.
Training provider Open Colleges has joined Bethanie, NBN Company and Vocus Communications in signing up this year for space at Workzone Building A, which is now fully leased.
The company in charge of rolling out the national broadband network says it is well on track towards its long-term goals after adding about 338,000 new homes and businesses to the system in the September quarter.
NBN Company has awarded contracts to six companies to deliver the national broadband network to homes and businesses in the Telstra hybrid-fibre coaxial network.
Opposition leader Bill Shorten says a Labor government would review the NBN Company board in the wake of questions about the impartiality of its chairman.
iiNet's mass outage in Perth this week was the fourth time in eight months that Lisa and Jason Spark's business Quality Printers & Cartridges has been cut off.
