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News (30)

• NBN Co hires HR director

  The National Broadband Network Company has nabbed Qantas's former executive general manager of human resources, Kevin Brown.

• NBN Co hires outspoken analyst Smeallie

  The National Broadband Network Company has reportedly hired former outspoken telecommunications analyst Tim Smeallie as its head of commercial strategy.

• Doug Campbell to be Tassie NBN chair

  The Federal and Tasmanian governments have appointed former Telstra executive Doug Campbell to chair the Tasmanian leg of the National Broadband Network.

• Govt shortlists NBN study advisors

  Several management consultancies are believed to have been shortlisted for the $53 million nine-month National Broadband Network (NBN) implementation study.

• Bidders unwilling to release NBN docs

  The bidders for the Federal Government's National Broadband Network will not be making the details of their bids public, despite the fact that the process has been terminated.

Blogs (4)

• Robbing Joe the Shearer to pay Paul

  Joe the Shearer can wait. Telstra is clearly going to roll out its NBN in capital cities first, where the most customers live and, despite Telstra's assertions, many residents already have access to decent broadband.

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  NBN needs workers on board

  Without consensus on labour issues, the eventual winner of the NBN may end up as little more than a lame duck and a cashed-up symbol of the conflict between the desire for progress and the lack of mechanisms to deliver it.

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  Can the NBN survive the recession?

  In times of financial crisis, it's inevitable that companies reassess their financial plans.

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  Forget prez - vote Hillary for Optus

  Hillary Clinton's nine lives are not yet depleted and, despite allegations that her stubborn refusal to concede defeat earlier has fragmented her party, she fought her battle to the very end. By placing bets several ways, that battle may just turn into gold for her down the track. Has Optus taken a leaf out of Hillary's book?

Features and Case Studies (6)

• When a vacuum becomes vacuous

  The silence clinging to Stephen Conroy's National Broadband Network deliberations may have fried some brains in Australia's telecommunications industry.

• Telstra lost in the wasteland

  From dead parrots to ACCC lawsuits, the National Broadband Network and Fake Stephen Conroy, it's like Telstra is lost in T.S. Eliot's epic poem The Wasteland.

• Does Conroy have the fibre?

  A remarkable four-car pile-up is about to happen with the National Broadband Network; goodness knows what will emerge from the wreckage. Maybe there'll be no survivors at all.

• Telstra's plan of attack

  Telstra will take every opportunity to both cast doubts on its rivals' capabilities and sow doubts in the minds of the legislators that might help to undermine the prospects of the displacement of its dominance of the fixed line space.

• Telco 2008: A year in review

  2008 was a cracker year for telco in Australia, with so many huge events happening that those at the beginning of the year have been drowned by the importance of those at the end.

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