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• Telstra ‘seeking to position’ itself for NBN purchase, unions claim

  The unions at the centre of Telstra bargaining talks have fuelled speculation that the telco is priming itself to buy the National Broadband Network (NBN).

• Huawei: “The NBN project has failed”

  ​The National Broadband Network (NBN) is a “catastrophe” that has “failed to deliver on its promise” according to Huawei Australia’s chief technology officer.

• Telco analyst rails against NBN financial model

  Telco analyst Paul Budde continues to hit out at one of the most talked about infrastructure projects in recent times, criticising the current financial model of the national broadband network and skeptical whether we will get NBN 3.0 right this time.

• NBN Co appoints new CFO, Philip Knox

  ​NBN Co has appointed a new chief financial officer, Philip Knox, formerly CFO of outdoor advertising company APN Outdoor.

• NBN Co doubles transit network capacity

  ​The company building the national broadband network NBN Co has flicked the switch on a major upgrade to double bandwidth capacity along its 60,000km fibre optic backbone.

• Stephen Rue new NBN chief

  NBN Co has promoted its CFO Stephen Rue to chief executive, replacing Bill Morrow who announced in April that he was leaving the top job.

• Hundreds lose their phone numbers when migrating to NBN

  Hundreds of consumers and businesses moving to the NBN lost their phone numbers in the process, according to a report by the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO).

• One-third of NBN users want their old service back

  More than one-third of NBN users responding to a survey say they would revert back to their previous broadband service if they had the option.

• ITPA ‘appalled’ by Bill Morrow’s comments on gamers

  Information Technology Professionals Association (ITPA) said on Thursday that it is “appalled” at attempts by NBN’s outgoing CEO Bill Morrow to lay the blame for congestion and service degradation on its fixed wireless network at the feet of gamers.

• Optus hit with $1.5M fine for misleading NBN customers

  The Federal Court has ordered Optus to pay $1.5 million for making misleading representations to customers about their transition from the telco’s HFC network to the NBN.

• Optus clocks earnings surge despite NBN suspension woes

  Optus has revealed a $42 million quarter-on-quarter fall in net profit for the three months ending March, citing lower revenues from NBN service migrations.

• NBN revenue hits $1.4B

  NBN Co on Thursday reported a doubling of year-on-year revenue to $1.4 billion on the back of ‘solid progress’ on construction and activations during its third quarter ending 31 March.

• NBN Co teams up with UoM and UTS on R&D

  ​NBN Co has announced two research and development collaborations with the University of Melbourne (UoM) and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).

• NBN Co chief casts shadow over Govt’s mixed tech rollout

  Bill Morrow has outlined some of the ways in which the Government's much-touted mixed technology rollout approach is hampering NBN performance.

• NBN Co restarts HFC rollout

  NBN Co will begin a staged restart of wholesale HFC services sales to retailers from 27 April 2018.