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News (20)

• Nextgen to roll-out new backhaul pricing

  Over the coming weeks Nextgen boss Phil Sykes will be touting a new pricing regime for regional backhaul, which the telecoms industry hopes will undercut Telstra's pricing.

• Backhaul tender cautiously welcomed

  Internet service providers (ISP), mobile telcos, and bidders for the $250 million regional backhaul build have welcomed the launch of the initiative, but questions remain over whether the plan will deliver competition.

• Netspace cuts Tassie broadband plans

  Internet service provider Netspace has stopped offering top-end broadband plans in Tasmania, claiming Telstra's price hike for Internet traffic haulage to the mainland was too costly.

• Rudd's big backhaul day in Darwin

  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is shortly expected to announce during a trip to Darwin what areas of regional Australia will be targeted by the backhaul aspect of the government's National Broadband Network plans.

• Sept start for NBN regional backhaul?

  Part of the government's National Broadband Network plan, the $250 million injection to create new backhaul links in regional areas, could start construction by September this year.

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  Tasmanian Premier Bartlett talks NBN

  In today's Twisted Wire, Tasmanian Premier David Bartlett explains his vision for a broadband enabled Tasmania, that will "leapfrog every other nation on earth".

Features and Case Studies (5)

• Pipe Networks sell-out an absolute travesty

  The proposed buyout of Pipe Networks by SP Telemedia is an absolute travesty for Australia's telecommunications industry and will be overwhelmingly negative for customers, Pipe Networks staff, shareholders and the industry as a whole.

• Broadband: Crisis in the bush

  iiNet and Telstra seem to be at loggerheads but the real culprit, according to the telco giant, is the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

• Is Telstra a backhaul monopolist?

  Yes, says iiNet, and the telco giant's price chains are keeping smaller players from venturing down the rural broadband route.

• Telstra stalwarts to lead NBN Co

  Mike Quigley and Doug Campbell's long-standing relationships with Telstra and few of its rivals will lead Australia's telecommunications industry to question privately whether Telstra will receive a phenomenal level of access to the NBN decision-making processes.

• 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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