Category: Telephone and Internet

Australia’s National Broadband Network December 2013 Report

A 134-page Strategic Review of the National Broadband Network [NBN] project, released by the Australian government, shows the following:

  • The NBN project is two years behind schedule
  • The cost of the NBN has increased from $45bn to $73bn
  • The average cost per premises is now $2,100 ??

Further details at: … Read the rest

Mobile Phones that have Antenna Connector on the back of handset

People outside city areas , often have reception problems.

Many years ago, most mobile phones came with antenna ports on the back of phones, this allowed you to connect an external antenna to the phone .
These days it seams less and less manufacturers are designing their phones with this … Read the rest

Labor says NBN will make you $3,800 per year better off.

Australian households would be about $3,800 a year better off in 2020 with super-fast broadband like Labor’s National Broadband Network (NBN), according to new research commissioned by the Labor Government.

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BUT.. which NBN plans are they referring to?
Telstra NBN plans start at 12Mbps, about HALF the ADSL2+ maximum … Read the rest

KOGAN Mobile customers MUST act within 30 days or risk losing their mobile number.

Telstra: statement from Wholesale director Stuart Lee.

“Telstra Wholesale has been advised that ispONE has appointed Ferrier Hodgson as a voluntary administrator and the administrator has cancelled ispONE’s contracts for the supply of Telstra Wholesale prepaid mobile products.”

ispONE is the provider of mobile phone connections for Kogan and ALDIMobile.… Read the rest

National Broadband Network to be Compulsory ?

Is the National Broadband Network going to be compulsory for Australians ?

The federal government, on 21st Oct 2010 advised that the take-up rate in the first three Tasmanian towns to receive the NBN was less than 11 per cent.
This was used as evidence that the $43 billion program … Read the rest