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NBN pushes for high speed copper

No formal announcement has been made, but it is becoming increasingly obvious that NBN Co is looking at G.fast as the technology it will use to squeeze fibre-like speeds...

Malcolm’s Sesame Street moment

Posted on   |  by James Riley
“One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn’t belong; Can you tell which thing is not like the others, By the time...

No chance the USO will be dumped

Posted on   |  by James Riley
There is “absolutely no chance” that government will end the Universal Service Obligation (USO) at the end of its review of the system, according to Telstra Group Director of...

Time to end the NBN shell game

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
It is time for NBN Co Chairman Dr Ziggy Switkowski to call an end to the shell game that is being played out in an effort to carefully manage...

Stephen Conroy, a man of [f]action

Posted on   |  by David Havyatt
Stephen Conroy really does do things his way. Last Thursday, at 8:53pm at the end of the sitting week, he got up to make a second reading speech on the...

Telcos reject NBN access proposal

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
Telstra, Optus and the Competitive Carriers Coalition (CCC), an industry body representing smaller telecommunication companies including Vodafone, have resoundingly called for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to...

Telstrafication of the NBN grows

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
Malcolm Turnbull and Ziggy Switkowski’s ever-moving, ever-changing NBN Co has released its 2017 Corporate Plan. Once again, the company has bombarded readers with so many numbers that it’s hard...

Steady as she goes for Comms roles

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
One the surface, with all-out, all-change in the innovation portfolio taking the spotlight in the sector, it’s very much steady as she goes in the new Turnbull Ministry’s communications...

NBN moves onto uncertain ground

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Labor in opposition would continue to press for a rethink of the unpopular fibre-to-the-node NBN roll-out, with Shadow communications spokesman Jason Clare claiming the issue played a big part...

Industry politics just got weirder

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Things just got significantly weirder for the new economy. And whatever perceived good that had been extended to the startup end of the innovation sector has now been reigned...