In a televised debate last week, Labor communications spokesperson Stephen Conroy accused Communications Minister Helen Coonan of not only lying but also "rewriting the laws of physics" because of claims she made regarding WiMax.
The national competition regulator today released a position paper detailing what it described as a "robust framework" for reviewing existing and guiding future telecommunications regulation of fixed network services.
Australia's telecommunications industry is about to see a major structural shift as it did upon the opening of competition in 1997.
Facts are facts, right? Not when Telstra, Optus and the communications regulator are involved. With temperatures rising across the board over the contentious issue of broadband, mud-slinging and half-truths have become the order of the day.
Federal Communications Minister Helen Coonan will continue her Telstra tour of rural and regional Australia today, amid National party fears a full sale of the telco would leave regional services wanting.
Australian telecoms is increasingly resembling the US during Prohibition, with Telstra as Al Capone and the ACCC as Eliot Ness.
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.
Much has been made of Telstra's decision to finally stop holding Australia to ransom, and to actually turn on the ADSL2+ equipment it has installed in what is apparently over 900 of its exchanges around the country.
The Australian Labor Party's ICT shadow minister wants a national fibre broadband network and enough skilled people to exploit it.
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