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The first (in red) and second (in green) release sites of the NBN rollout. Five areas comprising around 14,000 premises were chosen as the 'first mainland sites', each representing rollout challenges the NBN was expecting to face during an Australia-wide rollout, with the first services going live on 19 April 2011.
NBN Co entered into an agreement worth up to $380 million with Silcar on 1 June. The agreement covered the construction of the NBN in Queensland, New South Wales and the ACT by Silcar, a company joint-owned by Siemens and Thiess. The agreement includes the option of a two-year extension with an additional value of $740 million.
Nine-owned NBN produces an hour-long news service, NBN News, containing local, national and international news, sport and weather for its entire coverage area, airing nightly at 6:00pm. NBN News is considered as the only mainland regional station to produce a one-hour news bulletin 365 days a year.
Optus has Australia's most available 4G network, thanks to its LTE rollout. OpenSignal reports its users were able to find an Optus LTE signal 90.5% of the time. Vodafone had the best 4G and overall download speeds in Melbourne and had the lowest 4G latency.
[1] [2] [3] Pegasus Networks was Australia's first public Internet provider in June 1989. [4] The first commercial dial-up Internet Service Provider (ISP) appeared in capital cities soon after, [ 5 ] and by the mid-1990s, almost the entire country had a range of choices of dial-up ISPs. [ 5 ]
In February 2017, Telstra announced that revenue had dropped 3.5%, Net Profit After Tax had dropped by over 14% [129] due to the impact of the rollout of the NBN by the Australian Government. As a result, Telstra's share price dropped by 4.5% on the same day. [ 130 ]
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NBN Co Limited, known simply as nbn, is a state-owned corporation of the Australian Government, tasked to design, build and operate Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) as the nation's wholesale broadband provider. NBN Co reports to two individuals: the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Communications. [3]