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• ISPs to pay $300 per connection in Tassie NBN stage one

  iPrimus, iiNet and Internode will pay $300 per premises connected to NBN Co as part of the Tasmanian stage one rollout of the national broadband network (NBN).

• Asymmetric speeds plague first NBN plans

  Residential customers of the stage 1 trial sites for the national broadband network (NBN) in Tasmania will receive committed upstream speeds of two to eight megabits per second (Mbps) on the iPrimus network, the service provider's chief executive officer, Ravi Bhatia, has revealed.

• Primus: NBN services to start at $39.95

  Primus Telecom will offer the first fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) services starting at $39.95 per month, as part of the [[Artnid: 311411|stage 1 Tasmania's National Broadband Network (NBN) trial sites in Tasmania]].
  

• iPrimus CEO to Pacific Fibre: "Good luck and God speed"

  Pacific Fibre's proposed international fibre link between Australia, New Zealand and the US is necessary for both consumers and the ISP industry due to rapidly growing demand for network capacity, iPrimus CEO Ravia Bhatia has argued.

• Net filter causes IT industry vote swing

  The mandatory Internet filtering scheme could sway votes against the Rudd Government when the IT industry hits the polling booths at the Federal election.

• Internode may be alone for some time in IPv6 trial

  Internode is going it alone in offering a trial of IPv6 services in native mode on its national ADSL network as other large ISPs report they won't be following suit in the near future. Internode recently announced an IPv6 trial across the company's national network and provides concurrent IPv6 and IPv4 PPP access for any router or computer that supports it.

• Govt's $250M won't fix bush broadband

  The bush will only get marginally better broadband despite the government's $250 million splurge to lay more fibre cable.

• ISPs begin to offer unmetered access to ABC’s iView service

  iPrimus is the second ISP to announce this week it is offering unmetered access to the ABC’s iView TV service, which is now available to all its broadband customers.
  

• iPrimus launches price-capped mobile broadband

  Telco iPrimus has launched what it claims is Australia's first capped-price mobile broadband service that slows the connection speed when the 6GB of monthly data allowance is reached.