Internode is offering Internet service to residents of more than 20 greenfields sites around the country. The plans match the company's NBN-based offerings.

The Competitive Carriers' Coalition says the exemption granted by the Federal Government to Telstra will mean thousands of Australians will not gain the full benefits of competition.

Australia’s new government created national broadband company, NBN Co, has signed its 4000th customer, and while the company’s own internal projections had user numbers around ten times larger, the fact a government program hasn’t as yet lived up to its own projected milestones is a fact of life these days.

Internode has launched trial of the fetchTV IPTV service to its customers connected to the NBN's FTTH network and those on FTTH networks provided by Opticomm in new housing developments.

  New Zealand's Ultrafast Fibre will use Huawei equipment to deliver fibre to the home connections in certain parts of the country.  

Ericsson has been awarded a contract to supply optical fibre cable for the New Zealand Government's Ultra Fast Broadband network - the equivalent of Australia's NBN.

Research firm Telsyte estimates that NBN FTTH connections will exceed ADSL in 2015 with about three million connections and reach 4.2m homes by 2017.

There are few more politically emotive issues in Australia (aside from asylum seekers) than the NBN. One of the issues is the cost of services for users. Make no mistake, under the proposed mandated regime the NBN will cost more than what consumers and businesses currently pay for broadband and the reasons should be clear to anyone with a modicum of objectivity.

NBN Co has signed an agreement valued at $133m for the large-scale deployment of the NBN in Victoria with Transfield Services.

NBN Co has awarded a contract worth up to $174m for its FTTH rollout in WA to Service Stream's (ASX: SSM) Syntheo joint venture with Lend Lease.