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On opaque NBN Co reporting

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...

Telstra separation is the UK lesson

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
The communications regulator in the UK, Ofcom, has notified BT that it is to legally separate from OpenReach after BT failed to offer voluntary proposals that address Ofcom’s competition...

NBN bailout a political mockery

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
After presenting the nation with a massively watered-down plan for the National Broadband Network (NBN) in April 2013, the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has now had to bail out...

NBN’s a can of worms on pricing

Posted on   |  by James Riley
NBN Co CEO Bill Morrow told Senate Estimates last week that NBN Co is consulting on a new volume-based discount model that would be made available to individual Retail...

Cheeriness on NBN is premature

Posted on   |  by Graeme Philipson
Everybody – at least nearly everybody – loves infrastructure. We love trains and bridges and tunnels and stuff. And politicians love infrastructure more than anybody. They love announcing big...

Regions lose in telco policy fight

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
It is a national disgrace that must be born by every government since Bob Hawke’s that the Australian telecommunications market is still so effectively dominated by Telstra, which rakes...

Vodafone enters fixed line market

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
Vodafone Hutchison Australia CEO Iñaki Berroeta has used his 2016 Charles Todd Oration last week to announce that Vodafone would offer fixed broadband over the National Broadband Network (NBN)...

NBN pushes for high speed copper

Posted on   |  by Graeme Philipson
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...