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NBNco Says Most People Don’t Want 100Mbps
History is littered with grandiose statements that seemed reasonable(ish) at the time but were proven to be completely ludicrous. There’s the statement made by Bill Gates that 640K of memory ought be enough for everyone and Thomas John Watson, the Chairman of IBM saying there was a market in the world for just five computers.…
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NBN Rollout: What Happens Next?
The National Broadband Network (NBN) should be built and fully operational by 2022, having cost about $50 billion. The question will then be whether the government should retain the NBN or sell it off?
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NBN Co Finally Blames Copper For All Its Woes
When the NBN was first touted over a decade ago, we expected a high-speed network using the latest technology. But after a change in government we saw the original vision crushed and we landed with the multi-technology mix pushed by the Coalition government. That’s left us with a mix of technology that has made NBN…
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The Best NBN Plans With Unlimited Data
One of the key arguments underpinning the existence of the NBN is the idea that the internet is now an essential utility. Like water and electricity, most of us use the internet everyday, and like these other services, we expect the internet to be always on.