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NBN Co released its business plan on 20 December 2010, including forecasts and network design. [41] Changes to the Business plan included an increase in the peak speed to one gigabit per second, [39] in response to Google Fiber [40] and giving 'priority' to regional and rural areas during the rollout following the events after the 2010 election.
Sky Muster I (NBN-Co 1A) was launched on 1 October 2015 [109] from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana, South America, alongside Argentina's ARSAT-2, on an Ariane 5ECA rocket. It became operational in April 2016. [111] Sky Muster II (NBN-Co 1B) was launched on 5 October 2016 to operate in geostationary orbit of 145° East. [112] [113]
On 15 November 2005 Telstra, the owner of the national copper network, announced a plan to upgrade its ageing networks, including a rollout of a fibre to the node (FTTN) network. At the time, the Federal Government was the majority shareholder of Telstra, but the plan did not involve any additional government investment.
Telstra agreed to "disconnect" [22] its Internet customers from the copper and hybrid fibre-coaxial networks in areas where FTTP has been installed, and agreed to lease dark fibre, exchange space and ducts to NBN Co. As part of the agreement, Telstra would not be able to market their mobile network as an alternative to the NBN for a number of ...
NBN Co also sells access for mobile telecommunication backhaul to mobile telecommunications providers. [18] At 30 June 2016, Telstra had 45.5%, TPG group had 24.8% and Optus had 12.4% of all end users connecting to the NBN. [19] There has been a significant failure of the nbn to deliver nominal performance to end users.
Aussie Broadband started providing NBN services as of 2017, ceasing third party reseller agreements. [9] Group Managing Director Phil Britt declared that, to his knowledge, the company was the only internet service provider outside of the “big four” (Telstra, Optus, TPG Telecom, and Vocus Group) to do this. [10]
In April 2006, another iiBroadband1 (using Telstra Wholesale) plan's speed was reduced to 512 kbit/s (though existing plan users were allowed to keep their speed). The second was an increase in line rental for iiPhone. The rate was increased from A$29.95 to A$33.36, and was also blamed on price increases from Telstra Wholesale. Michael Malone ...
Telstra in 2006 proposed replacing its copper network with an optical fibre node network with the drop connection into end user premises being the existing copper cable. They abandoned this as under competition policy they would be required to open their network to competing carriers on a wholesale basis.