National Telecoms Group (NTG) has revealed plans for a partial management buy-out that will see the company's core headcount reduced by 60 to 70 percent.
Have five years of full competition in Australia’s telecoms arena been a farce? The national incumbent, its challengers, corporate users and regulators air their views on the outcomes of deregulation.
It's not at all quiet on the fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) network front, as telcos lodge their submissions on regulatory issues for the AU$4.7 billion national broadband network (NBN) and the Liberal party throws a spanner in the works by starting an inquiry into the government's handling of the network tender.
update: A group of Telstra's rivals known as the G9 has formally lodged their proposal for a nationwide fibre broadband network with the competition regulator.
Telstra has stepped up its campaign against the consumer watchdog, taking out full-page advertisements in major daily newspapers in every capital city.
Post-election adrenaline surging through his veins, one of the first acts performed by new Communications Minister Stephen Conroy was to disband the expert panel that his predecessor Helen Coonan had appointed last June to evaluate tenders for fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) construction.
Communications minister Daryl Williams and his political foe Kate Lundy debate on a wide range of issues, including three most pressing problems facing Australia's ICT industry.
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