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$30b NBN blunder: More bad news

Malcolm Turnbull’s multi-technology mix National Broadband Network (NBN) was comprehensively undermined last week when BT’s Openreach CEO Clive Selley indicated that 10 million UK premises could have Fibre to...

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...

What next for NBN’s Bill Morrow?

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Bill Morrow, the 56-year-old Californian silver fox who heads Australia’s endlessly controversial National Broadband Network sounds just a little amazed with himself when he admits that the job –...

NYT: What not to do on broadband

Posted on   |  by Michelle Rowland
I don’t receive much feedback about Malcolm Turnbull anymore – not at industry events, discussions with stakeholders in the communications sector, or even at street corner meetings in Blacktown....

Surge in NBN bypass numbers

Posted on   |  by James Riley
In a stunning admission by NBN Co CEO Bill Morrow, the number of premises deemed too hard to connect to the National Broadband Network (NBN) has continued to rise...

Regions are ready for startup love

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Innovation activity is crucial in addressing job losses in regional Australia, but more government support and education is required to capitalise on this, Incubate at 35 Degrees co-founder Dianna...

NBN Co model gets hammered

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
For the hard-working staff at NBN Co, the nonsense being spruiked by CEO Bill Morrow must be hard to swallow. For the rest of Australia, Mr Morrow’s comments are...

Chaotic plan for regional comms

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
The Turnbull Government has released draft legislation for an industry levy called the Regional Broadband Scheme (RBS) that will partially fund NBN Co’s loss-making fixed-wireless and satellite services. This...

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...