Vodafone begins its NBN trial, public schools remain unconnected and iiNet buys Internode for NBN competitiveness. All this and more in this week’s NBN roundup.
• The Daily Telegraph – not exactly the epitome of researched and balanced journalism – has been criticised for its NBN coverage by the Australian Press Council. Of course, that does nothing to change the blatant lies it told in its campaign against the NBN, but I guess it’s something… [The Register]
• Vodafone has begun its NBN trials in Armidale, making it the company’s first play in the fixed line space in Australia. It’s planning on offering mobile and NBN plans, which will also include FetchTV. The telco is hoping to use the trial to create a business model to launch officially, although no timeframe on that has been given. [The Australian]
• Poor Minnamurra public school. Even though the NBN is running right past its door, it can’t get connected because of a five year contract the NSW state government signed with Telstra back in 2009. Bugger. [Illawarra Mercury]
• Be scared. Be very scared. Experts are warning that cyber criminals will use the NBN to be even better cyber criminals. Maybe we should just give the whole thing up and go back to living in caves? [ITWire]
• Why did Internode decide to sell out to iiNet? The NBN. As Internode top dog Simon Hackett explained: “We are heading into the NBN era and it’s all about scale. We would have had the money in the bank but we wouldn’t have had scale. The size of Internode on its own is right at the bottom edge of what we’ve considered to be viable for an NBN retail provider. It would be a dangerous thing for us to go into that era only just being big enough.” [Lifehacker]
Antonia
Friday, December 23, 2011 at 12:26 PMSigh, experts warning that the NBN might be used by people with criminal intent. Why instead don’t they educate people to install appropriate anti malware software, and on what security-related procedures to follow, then the problem would go away.
DarthDVD
Friday, December 23, 2011 at 12:50 PMyou know i thought moving from dial up to adsl would mean virsus and other nastys would get into my computer faster or more easyler but…. its the same as before…. GET A FIREWALL AND DONT CLICK ON “FREE” STUFF. oh and a leathal dose of common sence will help.
Ogre
Friday, December 23, 2011 at 2:09 PMYeah, don’t click on free stuff, like Facebook.
LucasF
Friday, December 23, 2011 at 2:56 PMHehehehe! Gizmodo readers are quite funny! (As in HAHA not LALA)
Leonie Smith
Tuesday, December 27, 2011 at 6:10 PMhmmm was told last week Telstra was going to start digging up our garden for our never installed cable…which will carry the NBN…sadly no bobcat arrived as promised….wonders if it was a pretend Telstra Rep..:(