News

• NBN Co and Primus to test telephone migration software

  By Spandas Lui | 07 May, 2012 14:27

  Software would ease the copper to fibre fixed-line phone service migration process for NBN customers.

• Telco industry group attacks Telstra fibre network exemptions

  By Spandas Lui | 24 January, 2012 16:33

  Communications Minister granted Telstra's application to exempt some of its fibre networks from NBN laws does not sit well with the telco industry group.

• Primus overhaul at 60 per cent completion: CEO

  By Spandas Lui | 27 October, 2011 17:22

  Telco’s new CEO, Tom Mazerski, says his grand vision for the company is almost fulfilled.

• NBN gears up for wide release in Willunga, SA

  By Spandas Lui | 16 September, 2011 14:35

  Residents of Willunga in South Australia will have the chance to jump on-board the National Broadband Network (NBN) once trials finish up in October.

• No Internet filter until 2013

  By Renai LeMay | 17 November, 2010 12:28

  Legislation supporting Labor’s mandatory Internet filtering project may not hit parliament until mid-2013, according to advice provided to the Communications Minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, by his department — a timeframe which may make it an issue at the next election

• Optus still thinking about NBN Tasmania offering

  By Renai LeMay | 22 September, 2010 15:46

  The nation’s second-largest telco, Optus, has again stated it is still considering whether to provide retail fibre to the home services over the Tasmanian leg of the fledgling National Broadband Network, despite its biggest rival Telstra joining the party.

• Oh dear: For once, Conroy was right

  By Renai LeMay | 19 July, 2010 21:12

  Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, doesn’t always get things right — sometimes he misspeaks. Whether it’s the “spams and scams coming through the portal” or talking about how the Queensland Police have “cracked peer to peer”, Conroy sometimes messes things up.

• ISPs: Opposition axing the NBN is “laughable”

  By Spandas Lui | 20 May, 2010 12:12

  The Federal Opposition’s plan to dump the $43 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) if elected has raised the ire of Australian ISPs, who have labelled the decision “laughable”.

• Primus reveals NBN services and pricing

  By ARN Staff | 19 May, 2010 11:26

  Primus has announced the launch of select retail National Broadband Network (NBN) services in Tasmania.

• Why the NBN is like the iPhone

  By Georgina Swan | 11 December, 2009 15:54

  The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, has likened the National Broadband Network (NBN) to the Apple iPhone, saying it’s impossible to know all the applications that will use the high-speed connectivity engine before it is built.

• ISPs refuse to join TERRiA

  By Spandas Lui | 17 September, 2009 12:44

  The revived TERRiA telco consortium’s recruitment plans may be stifled as several Internet service providers (ISPs) have refused to join the group.

• ISPs show support for Internet filter trial

  By Spandas Lui | 24 March, 2009 10:24

  The remaining ISPs participating in the Federal Government’s Internet filtering trial have declared their continuing support for the controversial scheme.

• Primus Telecom benefits from parent company's bankruptcy filing

  By Kathryn Edwards | 17 March, 2009 15:38

  A bankruptcy protection filling in the US will lift the debt burden imposed on Primus Telecom Australia from its parent company.