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National broadband network (NBN)

NBN: latest news on the national broadband network from the Guardian

May 2024

  • NBN installation worker

    Price, speed and Elon Musk: why some Australians are ditching the NBN

    While politicians argue over who to blame for a decline in Australia’s broadband uptake, customers are seeking more affordable ways to get online

October 2023

  • NBN Co CEO Stephen Rue

    NBN Co chief’s salary jumps to more than $3m despite government call for restraint

    Stephen Rue is now paid five times more than prime minister Anthony Albanese’s salary of $587,000, annual report confirms

May 2023

  • The CEO of NBN Co, Stephen Rue

    NBN chief says ‘all options on the table’ to improve satellite service as Starlink lures customers

  • A hand holds a mobile device connected to Elon Musk's Starlink satellite broadband service (against the backdrop of a shot of planet Earth)

    The rural network, Victoria
    Australia’s ageing NBN satellites leave rural internet users struggling to connect

    Mark Gregory

February 2023

  • An X-box controller

    Liberals complain rural kids can’t game on NBN satellites as users jump ship to Musk’s Starlink

    Hollie Hughes says she is surprised only 10,000 people had abandoned Sky Muster as NBN executives face Senate estimates

December 2022

  • NBN contractor wearing a hi-vis vest works inside a service box on the side of a road in an urban setting

    NBN losses to reach $25bn by 2040, report finds

    Adoption of ‘multi-technology mix’ model and decision to preference regions in rollout cited as major factors in reported losses

November 2022

  • Signage at a Telstra retail branch in Sydney

    Telstra, Optus and TPG fined $33.5m for failing to deliver promised NBN internet speeds to some homes

    Telco customers were not told their connections could not reach advertised speeds or given option to change plans, federal court hears

October 2022

  • Two tradespeople wearing protective equipment install NBN in a suburban street

    Labor promises full-fibre NBN access to 1.5m homes and businesses by 2025

    Tuesday’s budget will include provisions for faster internet to mainly regional areas across Australia at a cost of $2.4bn

July 2022

  • Michelle Rowland

    Executive bonuses will need to be justified in a review of NBN Co, new communications minister says

    In opposition, Michelle Rowland said publicly-owned firm ‘might have an incentive to set and surpass artificially low targets’

May 2022

  • NBN Co's chief executive Stephen Rue

    Proposed NBN price hikes could double some internet bills within a decade, ACCC warns

  • The Guardian Tara Toomey. Uralla in northern NSW, Australia. The Seasons of New England expo was started by Tara and is held in Autumn every year.

    The rural network
    ‘We were kind of terrified’: rural Telstra customers lose service for a week

  • NBN installer

    Revealed: how a crafty Labor move on the NBN is being used to win over voters

  • Woman in front of a computer

    ‘They will do nothing to fix it’: why the NBN still matters to many voters

March 2022

  • A construction worker is seen on a construction site

    ‘Unprecedented’ regional infrastructure budget spend targets battleground seats

    Federal budget promises industrial hubs in key electorates in Northern Territory, the Hunter, WA and central Queensland
  • Contractors work on the NBN network

    NBN upgrade to single business in Barnaby Joyce’s electorate to cost $630,000

    Joyce wrote letter of support for ASX-listed Costa Group for fibre-to-the-premises conversion under Coalition grants program
  • Covid-19 testing centre in Melbourne

    Australia news live
    SA hospitals under ‘extraordinary strain’; Perrottet asks MP to resign after charges – as it happened

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February 2022

  • Contractors working with the rollout of the NBN network are seen in Sydney, Monday, July 10, 2017. The NBN rollout has passed the important halfway milestone, with one in two Australians now able to access the faster internet technology. (AAP Image/Brendan Esposito) NO ARCHIVING

    Coalition awards $520k for NBN upgrade to single business in Barnaby Joyce’s electorate

  • File photo of an NBN satellite

    ‘This is rocket science’: micrometeorite collision blamed for NBN satellite internet outage

December 2021

  • A woman holding her baby and a phone in front of a laptop

    How to ensure your broadband internet will meet the demands of a wet summer

    Checking your speed and ISP plan are among the first things to do to set up for the increased needs of more time indoors

November 2021

  • Federal Communication Minister Malcolm Turnbull (right) and Gold Coast MP Steve Ciobo

    Full Story
    What went wrong with the NBN?

    Laura Murphy-Oates speaks to Guardian Australia reporter Josh Taylor about Coalition and Labor’s competing plans for the NBN
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