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News (17)

• Budget '09: NBN study to cost $53.2 million

  The government has committed to spending $53.2 million on its implementation study for the National Broadband Network.

• Survey debunks broadband productivity gains

  A NZ government-funded survey has raised questions about the productivity gains to be made from providing fast internet access.

• Govt details NBN advisor needs

  The Federal Government yesterday kicked off its search for a lead adviser to deliver the nine-month implementation study that will map out the future of its $43 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) project.

• Minchin wins NBN report victory

  The Federal Senate has passed a motion which forces the Rudd Government to release the National Broadband Network reports from the ACCC and the expert panel: but only after the winning bidder has been selected.

• NBN plan 'tantamount to Telstra separation'

  Analysts have responded to the Federal Government's new NBN strategy with optimism, noting that while risky, the plan makes an important break from years of stagnation and promises an important new foundation for Australia's broadband future.

Blogs (4)

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  Do we need the legislative blackmail?

  Virtually everyone in the telecommunications industry has their say in the Senate Standing Committee's public hearing into the pending legislation to split up Telstra, in this week's Twisted Wire podcast.

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  Will the NBN kill digital TV as we know it?

  As the NBN bypasses the airwaves and offers a new pipe into 90 per cent of Australia's homes, could long-languishing IPTV services spell the beginning of the end for TV as we know it?

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  NBN a lose-lose deal for Telstra

  Labor's policy of socialised broadband has certainly proved much harder than the party believed it would be back when it was in Opposition, but it is Telstra that stands to lose the most from the NBN - and that applies whether it loses the NBN contract or wins it.

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  Telstra's BT coat doesn't fit

  The vision of the future BT portrayed this week at an Australian conference was so far removed from how Telstra's David Quilty has described the British telco that I wonder if they were talking about the same UK.

Features and Case Studies (10)

• The smart choice for Telstra

  A simple way forward for the National Broadband Network and for Telstra has now emerged.

• Competition reality a sly fiction

  Like Rudd, the ingrained cynicism and frustration at things not going to plan in Australia's telecommunications industry blinds ACCC chair Graeme Samuel to the possibility that he is part of the problem.

• Minchin is gaining on Conroy

  Communications Minister Stephen Conroy needs to stop handing his opposite Nick Minchin free kicks and put some transparency back into the National Broadband Network process before he finds himself losing favour with Chairman Rudd.

• NBN plan 'tantamount to Telstra separation'

  Analysts have responded to the Federal Government's new NBN strategy with optimism, noting that while risky, the plan makes an important break from years of stagnation and promises an important new foundation for Australia's broadband future.

• The Trujillo legacy

  Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo will leave Telstra in a better position than when he arrived in 2005, but his successor will have to manage plenty of difficult legacy issues.

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