Last week, thousands of SamKnows routers were blocked after a government program ran its course.
In 2020, as part of a program run by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), the Australian government’s main competition regulator, thousands of volunteers were provided with routers to help test and report on the typical speed and performance of broadband plans in Australia. (More specifically, the Measurement Broadband Australia (MBA) program focused on fixed-line broadband services delivered over the NBN, Australia’s government-owned open access wholesale broadband network, as well as services delivered over other access networks.)
According to the final report distributed by the ACCC, the routers are white boxes that were “supplied by SamKnows” and that “perform tests to measure Internet performance using test servers maintained by SamKnows and hosted in Australia.”
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