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  NBN hooks up 6 million homes and businesses

  Some 6 million households and businesses are able to connect to the National Broadband Network, NBN announced this morning.

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  Telstra says some of its NBN customers paid for unachievable speeds

  An analysis by Telstra has revealed that a small number of its customers with NBN services were on broadband plans with maximum speeds that were not achievable.

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  Australian broadband speed ranking drops again despite NBN rollout

  Australia continues to lose ground in the global broadband connection speed race.

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  Google Fiber puts expansion plans on hold to review strategy

  In a dramatic change in strategy, Google Fiber has paused plans to roll out fiber optic cables across a number of U.S. cities, as the company reevaluates its strategy to presumably use mainly wireless to provide high-speed Internet service.

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  White House releases money for small-satellite broadband, smart cities

  The U.S. government will invest tens of millions of dollars in smart-city technologies and in small-satellite broadband as part of a US$300 million package focused on innovation.

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  NBN: Labor to offer ‘greater proportion of fibre’, still not sold on FTTN

  Labor leader Bill Shorten has offered new hints at the shape of the NBN policy that his party will take to the election.

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  NBN: Question marks over copper costs persist

  It’s still too early to determine how much effort will be required to whip into shape the elements of Telstra’s copper network that will be used for the National Broadband Network, according to an analysis prepared on behalf of NBN.

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  Alcatel Lucent unveils 9,700km NZ to Hawaii submarine cable

  “The continued need for broadband access is driving new projects..."

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  FCC's Wheeler defends net neutrality rules, discounts investment fears

  Predictions from net neutrality opponents that regulations would choke off broadband investment haven't come true, with several service providers announcing expansions in the four months since the U.S. Federal Communications Commission passed new rul...

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  New modems to fuel superfast broadband over copper

  Alcatel-Lucent and chipmaker Sckipio Technologies are debuting modem technology that will help make speeds of hundreds of megabit per second over copper cables a reality.