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Wholesale broadband operator NBN Co has appointed Vocus CEO Ellie Sweeney as its new CEO.

More than 500,000 premises across Western Australia (WA) are eligible for fibre upgrades on the NBN network, wholesale broadband operator NBN Co claimed.

The market share of major Australian telcos slightly declined while smaller telcos saw a slight increase, according to the NBN Wholesale Market Indicators Report, prepared quarterly for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) by wholesale broadband operator NBN Co.

Wholesale broadband operator NBN Co claimed it reduced power consumption across its fixed wireless network by 5%, estimated to deliver a reduction of 850 metric tonnes of CO2 emissions.

Regional, rural and remote communication solutions provider Pivotel, the Connectivity Innovation Network (CIN) and Roobuck have been jointly awarded a grant of $1.5 million under the Telecommunications Disaster Resilience Innovation (TDRI) program, to support the next phase of the pilot Large Area WiFi project.

Around 13,000 new homes in Sydney’s south-west can “look forward to nbn’s fastest residential speeds” with a major fibre rollout following a multi-million-dollar partnership between Walker Corporation and NBN Co.

In November, Singtel Optus will get a new chief executive when the current chief executive of the NBN Co, Stephen Rue, switches seats and takes over the reins of Australia's second biggest telco.

Stephen Rue, chief executive of the National Broadband Company, has announced he is stepping down from the post after almost a decade working for the firm.

Wholesale broadband provider NBN Co completed what it calls the first live network demonstration of multiple next-generation PON technologies, leveraging Nokia’s fibre Lightspan access platform.

Broadband speed performance in the peak-demand period of 7-11pm (busy hours) has improved significantly for users of NBN ‘Home Ultrafast’ 1000 Mbps services, following the removal of capacity-based charging under NBN Co’s new wholesale pricing structure, according to the competition regulator, the ACCC.

NBN Co has successfully raised EUR 1.3 billion (A$2.16 billion equivalent) from its second Euro Green Bonds issuance in the European debt capital markets.

Smaller broadband providers, Aussie Broadband, Vocus and Superloop, gained over 62,000 NBN wholesale services in the December 2023 quarter as the total number of residential broadband services on the NBN remained steady, according to the competition watchdog the ACCC’s latest market indicators report.

Superloop Limited has appointed Dean Tognella as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), a role he has acted in since 23 October 2023.

NBN Co, the company rolling out Australia's national broadband network, has recorded a half-year loss of $696 million for the first six months of fiscal 2024, more than a third over the corresponding six months of fiscal 2023.

Australian telco TPG claims a "sizeable number" of Internet users are suffering from connectivity problems and feel "a real need for speed".

Australian internet provider Launtel has emerged as the best performing telco with customers receiving 103.8% of their NBN plan’s maximum speeds during peak hours between 7pm and 11pm, the ACCC’s 23rd Measuring Broadband Australia report found.

Australia’s national broadband network provider NBN Co has deployed a fleet of hybrid vehicles with elevated work platforms to install, maintain, and repair aerial sections of the NBN network.

Telco provider Superloop announced the launch of Hosted Backhaul, a new infrastructure on demand solution optimised for NBN’s new Wholesale Broadband Agreement (WBA5).

Broadband operator NBN Co has launched a new Wholesale Broadband Agreement (WBA5) with Retail Service Providers (RSPs).

Broadband operator NBN Co has signed a third renewable power purchase agreement (PPA) that will underwrite the construction of a new 120MW solar farm in southeast Queensland.