NBN Co launched its new blog, Telstra’s copper got declared and small ISPs kept expanding its NBN options. Just another week in NBN land.
• The NBN Co Blog officially launched, explaining why the NBN is like an onion. Yes, an onion. [Gizmodo]
• Part of the NBN Blog’s duties will involve detailing rollout plans; this week those plans extended out to include new areas in New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria [ITWire]
• The arguments surrounding last week’s announcement of Ka-Band satellites for NBN got an interesting spin, with Optus CEO Paul O’Sullivan stating that Optus’ Ku-Band satellites could be used, but they wouldn’t offer the same speeds and were therefore only suitable in the interim. [ZDNet]
• Exetel flipped on its position of the previous week, where high quota plans had vanished; now the company offers a highly competitive $70/month 300GB plan in NBN areas. [Gizmodo]
• Adam Internet also signed an official NBN contract, giving Internode some competition in the Adelaide-based-ISP-with-NBN stakes. [Adam]
• Telstra’s copper will have to groan on for a few more years, as the ACCC declared its service, meaning it’ll more or less fix wholesale prices for the next five years [Gizmodo]
• Still on Telstra, it has announced it won’t offer commercial NBN services in Tasmania until the network terminating devices on the island are identical to those on the mainland. [ZDNet]
• And finally, the process for rolling out fibre on new housing estates has been tweaked to eliminate delays. [iTNews]