It won’t affect most urban Australians, but iiNet has become the first National Broadband Network (NBN) provider to offer satellite plans. We’ve added the relevant details to our current Planhacker NBN guide. [Gizmodo]
Telstra launching its plans means that there are now five companies vying for your custom if you’re in an area where the NBN is available. Planhacker covers off all the plans on offer.
Well, that didn’t take long. Fresh off announcing it had signed up as an NBN retailer, Telstra’s announced its NBN pricing bundles for customers in NBN-ready areas.
There’s lots of arguing about the National Broadband Network (NBN), but there’s very little actual discussion. Positions on both sides are now so rusted on that the chance to discuss it meaningfully seems to have entirely evaporated, and the need to actually justify a position or contemplate market reality seems to have disappeared as well.
Having trimmed back its range of NBN plans recently, Exetel has now added one high-speed, high-download deal to the equation. As Alex at Gizmodo points out, $70 a month for 300GB (not including uploads) on a 100/40 connection is pretty good. We’ve updated our Planhacker table of every NBN plan to include this option.
NOTE: This guide has been superseded. Click here for the most recent version. It might be a while before the NBN is arriving in your area, but the pricing options and plans continue to evolve. Planhacker brings you an up-to-date guide to what you’ll pay for the NBN.
Free public Wi-Fi is still a relative rarity in Australia’s major cities, so how is it possible to make it viable in a town with less than 400 people? Newstead offers some interesting lessons about Wi-Fi, the National Broadband Network (NBN), open source and how to manage community projects.
The NBN is still highly politically provocative project, no matter which side of the fence you sit on. Politics aside, there’s a lot of confusion regarding the NBN. NBN Co’s launched a video series designed to clarify a few key points.
Just how long will you have to wait until the National Broadband Network (NBN) becomes available in your area? Find out with this up-to-the-minute list of expected launch dates.
Here at Lifehacker HQ, we’re not usually concerned with the intricacies of NBN construction contracts. However, we figure this one is worth noting since the Northern Territory is one of two states and territories which don’t yet have even pilot NBN services in place.
