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Article | 30/03/2011 Cost of NBN to small ISPs "insane": Internode's Hackett
Internode boss Simon Hackett has delivered a heavy critique of the costing model proposed for the National Broadband Network (NBN), stating that small...
Article | 30/03/2011 NBN will stifle competition: Turnbull
Shadow communications minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has warned the National Broadband Network (NBN) legislation will lead to complexity for future gover...
Article | 23/03/2011 Austar developing local media "wonder box"
Regional pay television operator, Austar (ASX:AUN), is developing a cross-platform user interface that could aggregate and beam content to multiple de...
Article | 16/03/2011 Telcos must embrace the NBN as a chance to innovate
Telcos must welcome the development of the National Broadband Network (NBN) as a chance to innovate, or face unpopularity, a member of TM Forum said.
Article | 11/03/2011 Public needs more info about NBN: Digital Tasmania
More information must be made available to the Australian public about the National Broadband Network (NBN) through mass-market advertising and local ...
Article | 9/03/2011 Optus calls for NBN volume discounts
Optus will push for NBN Co to be given the power to offer volume discounts to service providers on the National Broadband Network (NBN) under legislat...
Article | 27/01/2011 NBN goes ahead, floods or not, Gillard says
The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has confirmed the National Broadband Network will not be cut or slowed down to help fund rebuilding after the devas...
Article | 24/01/2011 Action, not talk, needed for IPv6
The co-developer of Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) has urged associations and businesses to take action on deploying IPv6, rather than continuing ...
Article | 25/01/2011 Download shortages no argument against NBN
Broadband subscribers are faced with more download capacity than ever but are using a smaller fraction than what they purchased, according to a new re...
Article | 14/01/2011 Abbott: Government must "rethink spending" due to floods
The Opposition leader, Tony Abbott, has used a visit to flood-afflicted Queensland to push for a change in Government spending priorities in what is m...
Article | 6/01/2011 Budget NBN offering unlikely to hit it big
A new entry-level broadband offering planned for introduction by internet service providers over the National Broadband Network is unlikely to boost a...
Article | 21/12/2010 Internode warns: New PoI model could consolidate ISP industry
Simon Hackett on Sunday published a strident critique of the large number of Points of Interconnect (PoIs) model being promulgated by Australia’s larg...
Article | 20/12/2010 Gigabit fibre for $150/month: NBN Co plan revealed
The Federal Government this morning released the long-awaited corporate plan outlining how NBN Co plans to build and operate its planned fibre network...
Article | 7/12/2010 Conroy: Worsening broadband backs up Government case for NBN
Communications Minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, has used Australia's falling OECD broadband penetration ratings as evidence that the National Broadba...
Article | 22/11/2010 Turnbull defends alleged conflict of interest
Federal shadow communications minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has been forced to defend potential conflicts of interest between private investments and hi...