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Article | 14/01/2009 Experts split over idle fibre

Analysts have locked horns over the need for Telstra's dark fibre to be integrated into the government's $10 billion National Broadband Network (NBN)....

Article | 12/01/2009 Industry peers slam govt file sharing filter

A federal government move to stamp-out illegal file sharing via the national Internet content filtering scheme will be impossible, experts say, withou...

Article | 15/12/2008 Conroy scolds Telstra for failing NBN

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has admonished Telstra for failing to bid for the National Broadband Network (NBN), and said its executives wil...

Article | 15/12/2008 Telstra banned from NBN

Telstra’s broadband hopes have been shot to pieces following a government decision to exclude it from the National Broadband Network (NBN) tender.

Article | 12/12/2008 Industry baffled over clean-feed internet pilot

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) participating in live trials of the national Internet content filtering scheme say the tests will be undermined by a...

Article | 15/12/2008 Protests make clean-feed Internet a mess for govt

Protests erupted across Australian capital cities on Saturday in opposition to the government's $70 million national clean feed Internet scheme, which...

Article | 13/12/2008 In Pictures: Aussies rally against sanitised Internet

Protesters held rallies across Australian capital cities today to oppose the government's national clean feed Internet scheme, which will impose blank...

Article | 10/12/2008 Rudd and Turnbull supporters undecided on which Twit to follow

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has more loyal followers than rival opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull, if Twitter is a guide worth following.

Article | 9/12/2008 Inside Telstra's NBN

Telstra has devoted over three years and some 900 engineers to designing a national fibre network, and Acaltel has chipped-in 1000 of its own engineer...

Article | 8/12/2008 Coalition, local government lock horns over broadband

The Coalition has attacked a scathing report by local governments on the state of broadband in Australia which labelled telecommunications under the H...

Article | 4/12/2008 Telstra execs unveil prodigious plans for broadband network

Upgrades to the $10 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) will be impossible if sub-loop unbundling, part of a call for structural separation, is m...

Article | 3/12/2008 Anti Internet filtering rebels hit the streets

Opponents to the government's Internet content filtering scheme will take to the streets in a series of protests planned in Australia's capital cities...

Article | 3/12/2008 Greens say NBN will flop in private hands

Greens senator Scott Ludlam has warned the government it will botch the $4.7 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) if it awards the contract to a p...

Article | 1/12/2008 New group to fight for consumer telco rights

The Australian Communications Consumers Action Network (ACCAN) will be the new voice for consumers in the embattled telecommunications industry follow...

Article | 1/12/2008 Experts douse Sinowal Trojan hype

Security experts have poured cold water on media reports that claim some 20,000 Australian bank accounts have been compromised by the Sinowal Trojan.