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• NBN overhauls CVC pricing model

  NBN has announced a new discount model for its controversial connectivity virtual circuit (CVC) charge, heeding calls from ISPs that original pricing was unsustainable.

• ​Labor MP slams Turnbull’s NBN as Aussie broadband speeds fall behind

  Shadow Communications Minister, Jason Clare, has slammed the Liberal Party’s takeover of the National Broadband Network following new research showing a substantial drop in world rankings for average peak connection speed.​

• Australia falling behind in global Internet ranks

  ​A new report has revealed Australia’s comparatively slow progress in Internet speed and broadband adoption compared to other nations.

• ​NBN upgrades wireless services

  NBN, the company rolling out the national broadband network, has upgraded its fixed wireless service, offering 50/20Mbps to homes and business in regional and rural Australia.
  

• ACCC proposes 'superfast' broadband regulation

  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has released a draft proposal to declare a Superfast Broadband Access Service (SBAS) in a bid to prevent any localised monopoly on provisioning.

• 57% of world’s population can't access the Internet

  Around 4.2 billion people or 57 per cent of the world's population do not have adequate access to the Internet, with the majority living in developing countries, a new report revealed.

• Customers being duped on broadband speeds

  Broadband customers purchasing a 100Mbps service through a particular retail service provider (RSP) may not have been receiving the service they paid for, according to an ACCC report.​​

• ​3 million workers needed by 2030

  The Australian labour market will increase by another 3 million workers in the next 15 years to 2030, according to a new report.
  

• New chipsets lay groundwork for gigabit speeds to more homes

  Chipset vendors such as Broadcom and STMicroelectronics have launched products that'll make it possible to offer gigabit speeds over fiber as well as over copper and cable networks.

• FCC rejects proposal favoring small carriers in spectrum auction

  Small mobile carriers lost a battle Thursday when the U.S. Federal Communications Commission declined to make it easier for them to get access to a reserved slice of spectrum during a 2016 auction of television spectrum.

• Qualcomm bets on superfast broadband over copper with latest acquisition

  Qualcomm has entered into an agreement to acquire Ikanos Communications in order to speed up its efforts to build home gateways with integrated support for G.fast, which promises to offer hundreds of megabit per second over copper.

• There's more to municipal broadband than public funding, says report

  U.S. communities looking for faster broadband service than incumbent ISPs provide have alternatives to the increasingly controversial choice of seeking to publicly fund a network, according to a new handbook for city officials.

• Australians flock to on-demand streaming

  Around 2 million Australians were using paid movie and TV streaming services like Netflix and Stan at the end of June, according to research.
  

• Fibre broadband adds 3 per cent a US home's value

  The availability of really fast broadband in your neighborhood could increase your home's value by more than 3 percent.

• Telstra to take wholesale price hit

  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is eyeing a 9.6 per cent drop in prices that operators pay to use Telstra’s copper network to provide telecommunications services.