News (160)

  • Minchin may stall NBN legislation

    Shadow Minister for Communications, Nick Minchin, late yesterday threatened to hold up legislation required for the National Broadband Network roll-out unless the Labor party releases the initial NBN expert report.

  • DBCDE official: NBN a $43bn question mark

    A senior Department of Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy staffer today said the government did not have answers to the growing list of questions surrounding the National Broadband Network.

  • Minter Ellison wins Tassie NBN work

    Law firm Minter Ellison has been awarded $330,000 worth of work with the federal broadband department for work, which appears to relate to the Tasmanian portion of the National Broadband Network roll-out.

  • $53m NBN study incomplete: Opposition

    The Federal Opposition has criticised the government's plans to spend $53 million on its National Broadband Network implementation study, claiming the document would be flawed due to the lack of an included rigorous cost/benefit analysis.

  • Conroy denies NBN cost-benefit need

    Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has denied the need for further cost-benefit analysis to be carried out on the $43 billion National Broadband Network project, according to his opposite Nick Minchin.

Blogs (17)

  • Read the blog post - Phil Dobbie

    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.

  • Read the blog post - Phil Dobbie

    Can the Telco Reform Act be win-win?

    In the second of our two programs looking at the Senate Inquiry into the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment Bill, we hear from shareholders, bureaucrats and industry groups.

  • Senate Select finds Tassie is in the dark

    Next month the Senate Select Committee on the NBN will table its final report. It will reflect the views of 100 or so submitted documents and a series of public hearings.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    NBN tender turns into bloodsport

    Fair is not what the National Broadband Network tender is about; it's bloodsport, and a fight for survival, and a challenge of the wills, and all the other sorts of superlatives you might expect from an Olympics announcer.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Could you believe in Steve?

    For no particular reason that I can discern, a 1979 Kenny Rogers song popped into my head as I was considering the ever more complex morass that is the national broadband network tender which Senator Stephen Conroy defended in his CeBIT keynote speech.

Features and Case Studies (27)

  • Conroy on Minchin's 'Luddite' delays

    This afternoon Communications Minister Stephen Conroy described his opposite, Senator Nick Minchin, as a Luddite as he took questions from reporters on the Opposition's attempt to block the government's wide-ranging telecommunications industry reform legislation, which includes provisions to force the break-up of Telstra.

  • From monopolist to little Aussie battler

    Legislation setting up the regulations for the National Broadband Network could be introduced to parliament as early as this week, which means Telstra will soon get some clarity about whether it's in a lot of trouble or just a little bit.

  • Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists

    The US Department of Justice on Wednesday lashed out at Internet telephony, saying the fast-growing technology could foster "drug trafficking, organised crime and terrorism."

  • Netspace's green box: Caption contest

    Netspace regulatory and carrier affairs manager Matthew Phillips has a lovely big green box. But what's inside? Tell us to win a double DVD box set of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre films.

  • Win a copy of Wired Brown Land

    We've got a few copies of former Optus executive Paul Fletcher's new book "Wired Brown Land? Telstra's Battle for Broadband" floating around the office and it's time to pass one on.

Reviews (1)

  • Kazaa finds friends in file-swapping fight

    Computer and telecommunications companies are allying with file-swapping service Kazaa in a bid to overhaul the way record labels are paid for music and other content distributed on the Net.

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