Home

Call Us Now

Home
Blog

Loading

All posts

Loading

All posts

Blog

Latest news, updates, and insights from Activ8me.

All posts

NBN restructure to meet changing climate of rollout

As the National Broadband Network (nbn®) hits their rollout plan halfway mark, nbn® CEO Bill Morrow has announced the company will make changes to its corporate structure. Morrow explained that the company is making its transition from “network build mode” to “network operate and optimisation”, as the rollout connects thousands of new premises each month. By 2020, the nbn®… View Article

Read article

10 July 2017

Innovation Generation 2017 focusing on the digital

Young grain growers are mixing their industry knowledge with their knowledge of media and technology, with a new conference giving them an opportunity to showcase their stories. The Innovation Generation conference was recently held in Adelaide, and gave a platform for a new generation of agricultural workers as they learned the ins-and-outs of using social… View Article

Read article

5 July 2017

Agriculture innovators urged to solve existing issues with tech

Agriculture innovators have been warned not to be too distracted by everything new and shiny in the tech world, and instead to focus their attentions on how technology can solve real problems, according to a report by ABC News. Drones have been attracting attention in the past few years, becoming mainstream in industries and recreation,… View Article

Read article

3 July 2017

NBN Fixed Wireless Rollout Reaches 500,000

The National Broadband Network (nbn®) has recently announced that over 500,000 households are able to access to fixed wireless services, as reported by Computerworld. The numbers released by the nbn show that the planned rollout of fixed wireless technology has already reached 80% of its final goal, with over a half a million addresses currently able to connect…. View Article

Read article

27 June 2017

NBN to raise Sky Muster® Fair Use Policy

The nbn® Co have today announced that they will be increasing their Sky Muster® Fair Use Policy as of October 1st, 2017. The nbn®’s restrictions to their retail service providers (such as Activ8me) are set to increase. Peak data limits (used between the hours of 7am – 1am local time), will be raised by the… View Article

Read article

26 June 2017

NBN to educate consumers on broadband speeds

Since the first announcements about the National Broadband Network were unveiled by the government, speed tiers originally planned with the “pure fibre” nbn® rollout became a fixed expectation for many. With changing conditions and the diverse geographic features of the Australian continent, the nbn® has had to adjust its rollout through a mixed technology approach, introducing… View Article

Read article

21 June 2017

Scientists tap into satellite broadband to protect green turtles on Raine Island

A project to help save the world’s largest nesting site for thousands of green sea turtles has been bolstered with nbn® Sky Muster® satellite connectivity by Activ8me, Australia’s largest nbn® satellite broadband provider. Raine Island, on the remote northern tip of the Great Barrier Reef, is the nesting site for around 60,000 green turtles every year. Spanning only… View Article

Read article

21 June 2017

Activ8me heads to Raine Island to see Green turtle nesting

Activ8me have joined a project to help save the world’s largest nesting site for thousands of green sea turtles has been bolstered with nbn® Sky Muster® satellite connectivity by Activ8me, Australia’s largest nbn® satellite broadband provider. Activ8me Chief Technology Officer, Rob Gallesio, visited Raine Island with the project team during one of their research trips in order to… View Article

Read article

21 June 2017

Activ8me presenting at Broadband for the Bush

Activ8me are proud to be a bronze level sponsor for this year’s Broadband for the Bush Alliance forum, a 2 day conference held in Freemantle centered around advancements in technology and addressing gaps between internet access for those in rural and remote areas compared to their metro counterparts. The forum has an overarching theme of… View Article

Read article

16 June 2017

Activ8me at Austmine 2017 Conference

Activ8me Corporate Sales representative Scott Cogley visited Perth last month for the Austmine 2017 conference, a 2 day event bringing together those working in the mining industry and those working to improve the industry and experiences. Scott described the conference as providing him with a greater understanding into the mining industry as a whole, with the… View Article

Read article

14 June 2017

Do you know what a POI is?

Activ8me currently have an offer for customers on certain POI’s to receive $100 credit when they join by June 30* – but do you know what a POI is? POI stands for Point Of Interconnect. For an end-user, your internet experience may be as simple as just connecting your home, but in reality there’s a… View Article

Read article