BigPond cable customers in all mainland capitals and the Gold Coast are set to join Melbourne with speed upgrades to their broadband services, with download speeds of up to 100 megabits per second into their homes and for sharing across multiple users.

A submission to the ACCC from NBN Co seeks to increase prices for high end broadband services by inflation plus 5% over the next 30 years, which will result in massive charges without a competing service in coming years, according to former Optus senior executive turned Liberal MP Paul Fletcher.

Fibre to the premises connections in Asia Pacific are expected to exceed DSL in 2014, a technology industry analyst is predicting.

Cable TV operator Foxtel has announced a friendly take-over bid for subscription TV provider Austar. In its own announcement, Austar has confirmed its intention to accept the acquisition proposal for $1.52 a share, which will provide shareholders with a 10% premium on the current share price.

The already highly politicised National Broadband Network has become an even hotter political potato since it has become apparent that the Government cannot deliver on its promise of 93% coverage for $36 billion. Given that it is politically unacceptable to increase the NBN budget, is there a way that 93% can still get fast broadband without breaking the bank? Perhaps.

Ruslan Kogan, the e-tail entrepreneur building his own brand on the back of value and cunning stunts, could have chosen a man called Con to cut the cable but didn’t, continuing to cut the “cable con” on his own.

If you’re in Melbourne, in an area that can get Telstra’s BigPond Cable Ultimate Plans but were put off by the need to partake of a specific Telstra bundle, the need for speed now comes unbundled for those who wish to connect to a broadband bundle of joy!

If you’ve purchased a TV from JB Hi-Fi anytime in 2011, Ruslan Kogan wants to give you a free HDMI cable to “expose” the cable con which sees HDMI cables that should cost less than $10 selling for up to $199 in traditional retail.

The roll-out of Australia’s National Broadband Network won’t be impacted by the roll-out of Telstra’s highly anticipated 4G LTE network, or the coming future upgrade to LTE-Advanced, because of the current Government’s kamikaze-like superhuman effort to “make it so”, and because 5G, 6G and BeyondG wireless networks will clearly be in place long before the NBN is finished.

UPDATED: Telstra, Australia’s dominant telecommunications company, and admitted serial overcharger, has finally delivered some of the price cuts its CEO, David Thodey, recently promised, and while any price cut is always welcome, has Telstra really done enough?