Internode aligns new-estate FTTH prices with NBN

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.
 

Fibre to trump DSL in 2014: analyst

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

Huawei, ZTE to rule the FTTx world

Chinese vendors will continue to dominate the FTTx market, according to a leading analyst firm.
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TransACT nets its 1000th FTTP customer

It's not exactly an NBN-scale milestone, but TransACT has connected its 1000th FTTP (fibre to the premises) customer.
 

Tyco Electronics to pay $US1.25 billion for ADC

Tyco Electronics is to acquire ADC, a move that will create a powerful new player in the market for supplying FTTH equipment to NBN Co, and a host of other telecoms market segments.
 

Broadband fibre via sewer mooted for Brisbane

A successful trial of a system for running fibre optic cables through sewers has been completed in Brisbane, and a large-scale rollout may follow.
 

Telstra: 300 FTTH connections at Point Cook

Telstra has connected more than 300 residents of Point Cook, west of Melbourne, to its fibre to the premises network.
 

Expanded focus as LG-Nortel becomes LG-Ericsson

The acquisition of Nortel's half of LG-Nortel by Ericsson could see the company in Australia expanding from small to medium enterprise telephony markets into large enterprise, carriers and possibly vying for NBN Co's PON contracts.
 

Internode, Primus connect customers to NBN

ISPs Internode and iPrimus have announced that they have connected their first customers to the National Broadband Network.
 

10 percent of OECD broadband services now on fibre

The OECD has released new statistics on broadband penetration in OECD countries, as of December 2009 saying that fibre services now make up 11 percent of the total.