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10 July 2013 | Alex Angove-Plumb

Vodafone 4G now available for new customers

New Vodafone customers finally have access to the telco’s fledgling 4G LTE network, putting the struggling company back in a position to gain some new subscribers.

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09 July 2013 | Joseph Hanlon

Support for NBN slipping, but holding on

Half of Australia still support Labor's Nation Broadband Network, but this figure is lower than a year ago.

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25 June 2013 | Joseph Hanlon

Optus milestone: moving to minutes and true capped plans

Optus has announced new plan constructs, moving away from confusing dollar values to clearer minutes and megabytes plan descriptions.

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05 June 2013 | Tara Donnelly

Vodafone Shutting Down 3 For Good

The end is nigh for Australian mobile provider 3, as Vodafone has finally announced its shut down date for the network. The 3 brand in Australia will officially be farewelled on the 30th of August, meaning any existing 3 customers will need to abandon ship before the network is switched off.

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20 May 2013 | Alex Angove-Plumb

Optus Network Event, May 2013

Optus held a network event today in which it announced its recent 3GPlus accomplishments and outlined plans for 4G expansion in the near future. The overall focus of the last few months’ worth of data was to do with 3GPlus coverage and consolidation across most of Australia, with particular attention paid towards increasing indoor coverage.

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23 April 2013 | Alex Angove-Plumb

NBN to Set World-Leading Speeds

The NBN is set to achieve world-leading download speeds of 1Gbps by the end of 2013, equalling Google Fiber’s achievements in Kansas, US. 1Gbps is around the upper limit of the current fibre to the premises/home (FTTP/FTTH) architecture of the NBN. While the speeds are frankly astonishing, most users really won’t see the benefit for years to come. The current max speeds of 100Mbps that the NBN is offering is more than enough for even the most bandwidth hungry personal user with today’s online services available in Australia.

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