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• NBN starts FTTC deployment

  NBN, the organisation rolling out the national broadband network, has begun rolling out fibre-to-the-curb (FTTC) technology, which it claims will benefit more than 1 million homes and businesses by 2020.

• nbn defends rollout plans amid FTTC furore

  nbn has moved to quell calls for it to abandon its FTTN rollout amid plans to step up the footprint of its alternative FTTC technology.

• NBN scraps Optus HFC in favour of FTTdp

  NBN Co has decided to scrap its plans to use the majority of its Optus’ hybrid-fibre coaxial (HFC) network, opting instead to use fibre-to-the-distribution point (FTTdp) technology for around 700,000 homes and businesses across the country.

• NBN Co doubles revenue and end users

  NBN Co has more than doubled its revenue and number of end users in the last year, the company announced today.

• ​The speed you need: Pyne and Albanese clash on NBN

  Christopher Pyne said the NBN will deliver the internet speeds Australian consumers “want and need” and will be finished by 2020.

• ​Internet Australia calls for ‘fibre-to-the-driveway’

  A peak body representing internet users has proposed that the federal government abandon fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) technology for the national broadband network in favour of ‘fibre-to-the-driveway.’
  

• NBN launches FTTN

  ​NBN has officially launched its commercial fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) technology as the next step in its overall multi-technology model (MTM).

• NBN exceeds targets for FY2015

  NBN today announced it had exceeded its targets for FY2015 by doubling the number of serviceable premises, the number of active end users, and telecommunications revenue in the 12 months to 30 June 2015.

• NBN Co launches fibre-to-the-building services

  NBN Co on Tuesday announced the rollout of fibre-to-the-building (FTTB) technology to 6,000 homes and businesses in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra.
  

• NBN Co chief expects Telstra, Optus talks to end in 2014

  National Broadband Network negotiations with Telstra are on the “home stretch” and could be submitted for government approval by the end of the year, NBN Co CEO Bill Morrow has said.

• FTTN makes sense for NBN, AAPT says

  It makes more sense to roll out fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) for the National Broadband Network (NBN) than the government's current fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) approach, according to the CEO of internet service provider AAPT.

• Former ACCC chairman an NBN "cheerleader", Turnbull says

  Malcolm Turnbull has hit back at claims by Graeme Samuel, former ACCC chairman, that fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) uses obsolete technology and equipment.