Tag: Mark Gregory

ACCC brings a stick to the NBN

Posted on   |  by Stuart Kennedy
The competition watchdog’s draft report into the country’s communications sector has lobbed into the middle of an NBN battlefield as the network engages in landmark price negotiations, and fights...

Telco security is the new frontier

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
The Telecommunications Sector Security Reforms (TSSR) have now passed the Senate after a bipartisan show of support for the legislation that formalises the telecommunications industry’s responsibility to protect their...

High long-term cost of NBN

Posted on   |  by James Riley
NBN Co was tasked by the government with building the National Broadband Network (NBN) with the primary consideration being roll-out cost and time-to-market, irrespective of the ongoing operational and...

NBN versus the natural gas rollout

Posted on   |  by James Riley
In a blog posted on 5 July, NBN Chief Networking Officer Peter Ryan makes a series of misleading statements about why NBN Co is building a national network dominated by copper-based...

Vodafone aims to fix ACCC blunder

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) is to seek judicial review of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) draft decision to not declare a wholesale domestic mobile roaming service. The...

The Fed’s big fat security push

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Federal Government has passed a privacy amendment bill through Parliament that gives Australian business a reason to prioritise digital security and protect consumer information. By passing the Privacy...

NBN thin-skinned social censors

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
NBN Co has ramped up efforts to censor critics and has labelled individuals and not-for-profits that provide feedback or are critical of the National Broadband Network (NBN) as trolls,...

On opaque NBN Co reporting

Posted on   |  by James Riley
NBN Co is a text book example of why Government Business Enterprises (GBE) attract criticism. In 2017, the company’s government-appointed senior management team is set to bumble along with...

Telco reform an attack on the ACCC

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
The Turnbull Government’s threatening stance towards the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has been ramped up with the announcement that plans to repeal the telecommunications-specific anti-competitive conduct laws...