Broadband News
Tue, 21st Nov 2023
Aussie Broadband offers big Black Friday savings on its fastest internet plans
Aussie Broadband is offering year-long discounts on its fastest NBN plans, plus 50% off its mobile plans for six months.
Source: WhistleOut
Optus’ year from hell raises questions for parent company Singtel
There are calls for Singtel to consider selling Optus and make it an Australian owned and operated company, after two major crises in just over a year.
Source: SMH
Mon, 20th Nov 2023
Optus CEO resigns in wake of nationwide outage
Optus chief executive officer Kelly Bayer Rosmarin resigns in the wake of November 8's nationwide outage.
Source: ABC News
Sat, 18th Nov 2023
Get a free year of Paramount Plus with an Origin internet plan
For a limited time only, Origin has revived its bonus annual Paramount Plus subscription offering with all its internet plans.
Source: WhistleOut
Fri, 17th Nov 2023
Best WiFi dongle and pocket WiFi plans in Australia
From WiFi dongles to pocket WiFi hubs, discover the best portable WiFi plans and devices across Optus, Vodafone and more.
Source: WhistleOut
Optus had not contemplated an outage as big as November 8
Optus will consider running larger-scale simulations of network outage events in the future, after being surprised by the size and scale of its outage event on November 8.
Source: iTnews Australia
Optus: 'We didn’t have a plan in place for that specific scale of outage'
Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin and head of networks Lambo Kanagaratnam faced a senate hearing on 17 November into its nation-wide outage on 8 November.
Source: ARN
Telstra to invest $24M into Pilbara’s digital infrastructure
Telstra is set to invest $24 million into the digital infrastructure in Western Australia’s Pilbara region in the next financial year.
Source: ARN
How Optus customers are securing sizeable discounts following outage
The telco is in damage-control mode after its 16-hour meltdown last week, despite boss Kelly Bayer Rosmarin ruling out discounts in recent comments.
Source: SMH
Optus outage blamed on edge router default settings
Optus has given its fullest account of what it thinks caused the November 8 outage: default settings in its Cisco provider edge (PE) routers that led to around 90 shutting down nationwide.
Source: iTnews Australia
Tue, 14th Nov 2023
Identity of ‘third party’ that brought down Optus network revealed
An executive from the company that contributed to the Optus outage left a Canadian telco less than two weeks after it suffered an almost identical outage last year.
Source: SMH
Telstra expands Intercity Fibre project by 5000km
Telstra has decided to expand its year-old Intercity Fibre project, adding another 5000km of fibre between now and 2027.
Source: iTnews Australia
Telstra predicts no major market shifts after Optus outage
Telstra is anticipating no major market shifts in customer base to occur after last week’s full-day Optus outage, countering a narrative in parts of the industry that the incident could trigger a significant churn event.
Source: iTnews Australia
Telstra adds more routes in $1.6B 'nation building' fibre project
Telstra has announced it plans to add five more connectivity routes to its $1.6 billion intercity fibre network across Australia.
Source: ARN
Optus outage caused by ‘software upgrade’
Optus has revealed a routine software change to its network sparked the outage that wreaked havoc for 10.2 million individuals and 400,000 businesses.
Source: ARN
Mon, 13th Nov 2023
NBN Co eyes AI ‘self-healing network’ to improve services
Broadband operator NBN Co plans to create an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered "intelligent, self-healing network", expand its workforce, and deliver more network upgrades across Australia, according to its first annual service improvement plan (ASIP).
Source: iTWire
Optus says 'changes to routing information' after software upgrade to blame for outage
Optus says "changes to routing information" after a "routine software upgrade" was behind last week's nationwide outage, affecting 10.2 million Australians and impacting 400,000 businesses.
Source: ABC News
Telcos to be added to SoCI regime
Cyber security minister Clare O’Neil is ready to introduce legislation bringing telecommunications companies under security of critical infrastructure legislation.
Source: iTnews Australia
Vocus' play for TPG fibre assets lapses
A $6.3 billion play by Vocus Group for TPG Telecom’s fibre asset will not proceed, with the two sides unable to navigate the “complexity” of the deal or agree to commercial terms.
Source: iTnews Australia
Vocus’ $6.3B bid for TPG assets collapses
Vocus Group’s $6.3 billion offer to buy certain TPG assets has fallen through.
Source: ARN
Thu, 09th Nov 2023
NBN Co sets no new fibre take-up target
NBN Co has not put a public target on the number of fibre-to-the-node and fibre-to-the-curb premises it wants to see move to full fibre in FY24, despite it being a "fundamental" metric and goal of the upgrade program.
Source: iTnews Australia
NBN Co to upgrade 53,000 underperforming FTTN users to fibre
NBN Co plans to upgrade some 53,000 premises with underperforming fibre-to-the-node connections to full fibre by mid next year.
Source: iTnews Australia
‘Particularly concerning’: Minister announces review of nationwide Optus outage
Federal Communications Minister Michelle Rowland says the government will undertake a “post-incident telecommunications review” into the network outage, which affected millions of Australians on Wednesday.
Source: SMH
Government steps in to run an Optus post-incident 'review'
Optus will be subjected to a government-run post-incident “review” after its near full-day telecommunications outage yesterday.
Source: iTnews Australia
What caused the Optus outage?
The network went dark at 4am this morning, cutting off millions and throwing hospitals and rail networks into chaos. Here’s what we know.
Source: SMH
Wed, 08th Nov 2023
Will Optus compensate 10.2 million customers who were affected with the outage?
Millions of Australians have been hit hard by Optus' outage, which may be the longest and largest shutdown in recent history, but will the telecommunications company's subscribers be compensated by the inconvenience it caused?
Source: iTWire
Optus steadily restores services following nationwide outage
Optus has gradually restored a number of fixed line and mobile services following a nine-hour outage across Australia.
Source: ARN
Optus outage hits banks, hospitals, enterprise users
A massive Optus outage that hit mobile and fixed services on Wednesday has impacted many major services, including banking and the health care sector.
Source: iTnews Australia
Optus outage hits banks, hospitals, enterprise users
A massive Optus outage that hit mobile and fixed services on Wednesday has impacted many major services, including banking and the health care sector.
Source: iTnews Australia
What caused the Optus outage, and how long was it down for? Here's what we know
Services are being restored after millions of Optus customers were left without phone and internet services. Here's what we know about the outage.
Source: ABC News