After resoundingly negative feedback, the government may consider letting National Broadband Network (NBN) customers opt-out of the mandatory battery backup for the network termination unit (NTU), a ...

Although NBN Co is requiring internet service providers (ISPs) to seek the informed consent of its customers before they're allowed to opt out of having battery backup for their National Broadband ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. NBN customers are becoming increasingly angry that a wall-mounted battery – once compulsory – is dying years earlier than expected, ...

THE three million people expected to eventually sign up to the NBN will no longer be forced to store giant back-up batteries in their homes. The Daily Telegraph has learned scrapping of the mandatory ...

NBN Co has quietly introduced a scheme that gives retail internet providers an incentive to supply customers with fibre connections without battery back-up units, despite warnings that consumers could ...

NBN Co CEO, Mike Quigley has foreshadowed that the customer equipment for the network will have battery backup to ensure telephone services operate in the event of power failure. These would need ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. NBN Co is to greatly expand the options for battery backup of its fibre-to-the-home service, in response to demands from the medical and ...

NBN Co CEO Mike Quigley has revealed mandatory back-up batteries as the biggest source of complaints from trial users of the National Broadband Network. The batteries, installed at more than 800 ...

Research firm Venture Insights points out that in south-east Australia's 2019-20 bushfires, about 88% of the telecommunications outages were caused by loss of power outages and only 1% were due to ...

It hasn’t taken long for Stephen Conroy to hit back at the latest speech from Malcolm Turnbull, with the communications minister reportedly taking particular exception to the assertion that the NBN ...

news The Federal Government today released the National Broadband Network Company’s latest corporate plan covering the years from 2012 through 2015, stating that it showed the project was on track ...