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AusBBS was founded in 2012 by Internet entrepreneur Rob Appel, who previously founded Chaos.com, the first Australian retailer to sell music over the Internet.AusBBS has been cited as the first purely cloud-based ISP [1] and the first to offer unlimited NBN plans. [2]
In April 2019, the ACCC released a report stating that consumers were paying more for basic internet access under the NBN than they were for ADSL plans under the same speeds. Mark Gregory of RMIT University estimated that to return the NBN to all-fibre similar to the initial plan would cost between $16 billion and $20 billion over five to ten ...
[3] [failed verification] Dodo expanded services which include mobile broadband, VoIP, home and car insurance, gas and electricity. [3] [failed verification] In 2013, the company was acquired by M2 Group. [4] [5] Prior to being bought out, the company had over 400,000 customers and 660,000 active services.
NBN Co released its business plan on 20 December 2010, including forecasts and network design. [41] Changes to the Business plan included an increase in the peak speed to one gigabit per second, [39] in response to Google Fiber [40] and giving 'priority' to regional and rural areas during the rollout following the events after the 2010 election.
The ACCC accused TPG of misleading its customers by advertising that its "unlimited" broadband package only cost $29.99 per month when the actual minimum monthly cost for the plan is $59.99. The ACCC also claimed in the lawsuit that TPG did not adequately disclose other costs associated with the setting up of the connection. [ 55 ]
Most Australian ISP plans traffic shape residential customers after a monthly download quota has been exceeded. Shaped connection speeds are typically claimed to be 64-256 kbit/s (kilo-bits) per second, depending on the plan, although 64 kbit/s is barely-usable and an industry standard slow-usable minimum would be reasonable.
NBN Co Limited, known simply as nbn, is a state-owned corporation of the Australian Government, tasked to design, build and operate Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) as the nation's wholesale broadband provider. NBN Co reports to two individuals: the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Communications. [3]
Aussie Broadband started providing NBN services as of 2017, ceasing third party reseller agreements. [9] Group Managing Director Phil Britt declared that, to his knowledge, the company was the only internet service provider outside of the “big four” (Telstra, Optus, TPG Telecom, and Vocus Group) to do this. [10]