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  • Aurora dumps broadband over powerline

    Aurora Energy has decided to withdraw from a three-year-old broadband-over-powerline experiment as a result of cost pressures.

  • Tassie fibre rollout lags state's timeframe

    The launch of a commercial trial of a new optical fibre to the home (FTTH) service in Tasmania is likely to take place in the closing months of this year, some 12 months after an initial date specified by the state's government.

  • Council bureaucracy delays Tassie fibre rollout

    Delays in securing local council approvals have pushed back the planned launch of a trial of a new fibre to the home (FTTH) service in Tasmania by almost four months.

  • Tassie fibre broadband trial to start November

    Around 1250 buildings in Tasmanian cities Hobart and Devonport will get 100Mbps fibre broadband piped to their front door, in a two-year trial due to start late November.

  • Tasmania powers up 12Mbps broadband

    Internet service provider Datafast, in partnership with Aurora Energy and hardware vendor Mitsubishi Electric, today kicked off a 12Mbps broadband over power line service in Hobart, which the company claims is the world's first large-scale commercial trial.

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  • Shocking times for Aussie broadband over powerline

    It seemed like a good idea at the time, but Australian utilities' recent abandonment of broadband over powerline (BPL) technology has all but sealed the fate of a technology that was once hoped to bring high-speed data to every corner of Australia.

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