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Mayor has a long wish list to share
Cr Chris Raeburn is part of a delegation of mayors from nine regional municipalities that will join Federal Member for Indi Helen Haines at a meeting with the Treasurer.
The meeting was to be held face-to-face, but will now occur online after Victoria was placed in a five-day coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown on Saturday.
Cr Raeburn said a key area of concern for Strathbogie Shire was connectivity – both internet and phone coverage.
“The Ruffy and Strathbogie communities are experiencing significant mobile coverage issues due to a fault at the Mt Wombat tower,” Cr Raeburn said.
The government-owned company responsible for building and operating the National Broadband Network paid its staff and executives $77m in bonuses between July and December last year, new documents reveal. New data released to the Senate in response to questions on notice from a Senate estimates committee reveal NBN Co paid $4.3m in bonuses to executives including the CEO, and paid employees $73.2m in bonuses between July and December 2020. The.
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Lightning-fast internet speeds of more than 10,000 terabits per second will be available to Central Queensland residents once tech-entrepreneur Bevan Slatteryâs proposed $1.5 billion âHyperoneâ network comes online.
The former North Rockhampton State High School student and now Brisbane-based businessman has unveiled plans for his 20,000km plus âfibre backboneâ which promises to employ more than 10,000 Australians during construction.
âHyperOne will be a new generation of hyperscaled network, capable of carrying over 10,000 terabits per second â more traffic than every other national backbone built in Australiaâs history combined,â Mr Slattery said. Bevan Slattery founder, chairman and ceo of Superloop, with his cherished pinball machines in his office for staff to use, in the cbd, Brisbane. Bevan paid for the swimmers to have a dedicated jet plane to fly to the Rio Olympics. Lyndon Mechielsen
NBN Co eyes alternatives to current wholesale bundle discounts
NBN Co eyes alternatives to current wholesale bundle discounts
New consultation round begins Credit: Supplied
NBN Co is exploring possible alternatives to its current bundle discount for National Broadband Network (NBN) Access Virtual Circuit (AVC) and Connectivity Virtual Circuit (CVC) charges as it launches a fresh round of industry consultation on its wholesale pricing.
The AVC and CVC charge, respectively, serve as an access charge based on speed tier and capacity charge for retail services providers (RSPs) that sell NBN services to end customers.
NBN Co periodically consults with industry on its wholesale pricing. This year’s consultation follows the completion of its Wholesale Pricing Review in November 2019, which resulted in the introduction of some wholesale pricing discounts and additional data inclusions, the introduction of national CVC pooling, new higher speed tiers and th
‘HyperOne’ to Offer Undersea Cables Safe Passage Through Troubled Indo-Pacific Waters
An Australian entrepreneur has unveiled an ambitious countrywide, fibre-optic network that could open significant commercial opportunities and make Australia a hub for international undersea networks traversing the troubled Indo-Pacific region.
HyperOne is a AU$1.5 billion hyperscale, national fibre network that will stretch more than 20,000 kilometres across Australia, and achieve speeds of 10,000 terabits per second.
Tech entrepreneur Bevan Slattery unveiled the plan earlier this week saying it was “big, bold, and way overdue.”
“HyperOne will be the first true private national fibre backbone project connecting major data hubs in every capital city in every state and territory across Australia,” he said in a statement.