NBN upgrades available on Coast
Eligible residential homes and businesses in parts of the Central Coast can now place an order to upgrade their NBN connection to Fibre to the Premises (FTTP). This includes parts…
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Indigenous Lisarow business takes out award for innovation
Indigenous business Bawamarra Cultural Services based in Lisarow has won a 2023 Innovate with nbn Grant Program award announced in Sydney recently. The business, owned by Jason May, opened in…
Hundreds of homes and businesses impacted by NBN outage
Around 1,400 people in the Empire Bay area remained without NBN coverage on Wednesday, September 20, after services went down at around 9am on Tuesday, September 19. The situation was…
NBN upgrades for Erina and Terrigal
Premises at Erina and Terrigal are among the first in Australia to become eligible for an upgrade of their NBN Connection at no upfront cost. They will now have access…
NBN to upgrade six Central Coast suburbs to full fibre
The NBN Co has announced that six Central Coast suburbs will be upgraded from fibre to the node (FTTN) connections to full fibre to the premises (FTTP) connections. The six…
Customers not happy to wait for NBN upgrade
Residents at the lower end of Stratford Park Estate in Terrigal are fed up with ongoing problems with internet connection and are calling on NBN to take responsibility for the…
The Ballad of the NBN (sung to the tune of the Beverley Hillbillies)
Forum – We have been trying for nearly a month to get NBN to attend. The problem is obvious and it has been like this since the March storms. Telstra…
Internet connection scams
Gosford Erina Business Chamber has issued a warning regarding a renewed scam relating to internet and landline connections which is targeting businesses and residences on the Central Coast. The call,…
O’Neill and Wicks clash over Mountain connectivity
As connectivity problems in Mangrove Mountain continue, Senator Deborah O’Neill told the Senate that the Mountain community had been abandoned by the Federal Government, by the NBN rollout and by…
Enter the Fibre Zone
Businesses across the Central Coast are now able to request high-speed fibre broadband with NBN Co rolling out a new Business Fibre Initiative, as part of a $700M package to…
Lake Haven-Wyong Business Fibre zone launched
Businesses across Lake Haven and Wyong will benefit from a new roll out of ultra-fast broadband, with the launch of 85 new Business Fibre Zones nationwide. NBN Co’s launch of…
NBN survey suggests flexible work is here to stay
Working from home could become the new norm, even after the coronavirus threat is behind us, according to the NBN Australian Covid-19 Behavioural Change Survey. More than 80% of respondents…
Additional satellite broadband data boost
Homes and businesses will have access to more data through Sky Muster satellite services, following a decision by NBN Co to provide additional broadband data from April 1. This data…
Community warned about telephone scams
Tuggerah Lakes Police District has issued a warning to community members regarding a phone scam involving the National Broadband Network (NBN). A spokesperson for the District said the scam involved…
Another damning report on the NBN rollover process
Central Coast businesses continue to be hampered by delays and connection difficulties when switching to the NBN, a new survey conducted by NSW Business Chamber has found. Chamber Central Coast…
Australia’s top telco company is based at Erina
Regional telecom provider, Central Telecoms, based at Erina, has been named Top Telco in Australia at the recent CRN Fast50, held in Sydney on November 21. With a growth of…
Mixed response to nearing NBN completion
The National Broadband Network (NBN) is speeding towards completion, with 98 per cent of homes and businesses on the Central Coast now ready to connect, according to the Member for…
A mobile phone is now a must
[Forum] Our house has a lift originally installed for disabled use, and in the old days of landlines and ADSL, the lift telephone continued to work in a power blackout as…
Emma McBride says NBN and NDIS biggest issues
Ms Emma McBride, the Member for Dobell, has spent most of the past two years as a federal parliamentarian helping her constituents to navigate the national broadband network, NDIS and…
Internet speeds are not what was promised
NBN has admitted to a Parliamentary Committee that only one in four customers with fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) will have access to the top speeds that were touted by this government, with…