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• ACCC asks Australians to sign up for broadband speed tests

  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is calling on Australians to be part of a program that will measure and compare broadband speeds across the country.

• OPEL would be serving bush broadband today: Turnbull

  Federal opposition communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull has used his National Press Club address to argue the decision to scrap the Howard government’s OPEL network for an NBN has denied the bush broadband services over the past three years.

• Regional Australians to receive faster Nextep DSLAM network speeds

  Enhancements to NEC’s wholesale Nextep regional digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM) and multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) networks
  mean subscribers in 62 regional areas across Australia will gain access to speeds of up to 20 megabits per second on its assymetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) service.
  

• Australian Vintage moves to improved distribution service model

  Local wine distributor, Australian Vintage, has moved to an improved distribution service model in an attempt to better connect its mobile workforce.

• Internode ups business ADSL speed and quotas

  Internode has significantly overhauled its ADSL broadband plans for business, upping data quotes and reducing prices. Internode will now offer three tiers of business ADSL services.
  

• NBN Co must not become ‘pork barreling bureaucracy’

  News that the CEO of the Federal Government’s National Broadband Network company, Mike Quigley, will pocket upwards of $2 million per year has raised questions whether the cost of running the company may reduce the deployment of broadband services across Australia.

• Adelaide to get $3m WiMax network

  A joint state and federal government project with ISP Adam Internet will see metropolitan Adelaide get a WiMax wireless broadband network to cover the city’s blackspot areas that cannot get ADSL2+.