Stories about fibre

Now there’s an App Store for your TV...
US telco Verizon opens up the ‘Widget Bazaar’ app store for its fibre-optic TV service, adding dollops of Web goodness to the biggest screen in the house.
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NBN rollout getting started: Conroy
When the going gets politically tough, the NBN gets going, apparently. Senator Conroy says the government is moving quickly to get started on the fibre network in regional areas.
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Why Malcolm Turnbull wants you to drive on potholes
Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull today slammed the Rudd Government's $43 billion national road network.
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Internode "gobsmacked", iiNet welcomes FTTH network
Two high profile ISPs have welcomed the government's decision to scrap its fibre-to-the-node plans and build a fibre-to-the-home network instead.
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BREAKING NEWS: govt to build $43bn fibre-to-the-home network
The Government has scrapped the fraught NBN process and will instead build its own 100Mbit/s fibre to the home network to 90% of Australians, within 5-8 years.
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Internode launches 100Mbit fibre to the home
Internode has unexpectedly announced a fibre-to-the-home broadband service for $49 a month. But there is a catch...
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BREAKING: Telstra dumped from government NBN process
Telstra is out of the running to build the national broadband network, after the Government's expert panel rejected the company's non-compliant bid.
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Conroy mocks Telstra broadband "bid"
"They describe it as a proposal... they believe it can be considered."
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APC Mag submits bid for National Bluescreen Network
Bluescreen returns, and this time, it's all about money. Oh, and the fastest bluescreens this country has ever seen. But mostly money.
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Aussie photonics breakthrough promises massive jump in internet speed
A team of Australian research scientists has made a radical breakthrough that could radically increase the speed of the backbone optical networks at the core of the internet.
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"Only Telstra can win fibre network tender"
“Unless someone has a flux capacitor handy, we’re in deep shit,” says Bevan Slattery, CEO of Pipe Networks, about the tender for Australia’s fibre network.
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Roll up, roll up: broadband cockfight
The Telstra chairman, the ACCC chairman, Senator Conroy and an ISP CEO were put in a room together and let loose on each others' throats. We had front row seats. Peck on!
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