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  • Broadband Connect gets another AU$20m

    The federal government has allocated an additional AU$20 million to cover a shortfall in funding for the Broadband Connect rural broadband subsidy.

  • Internode stops regional broadband rollout

    Internet service provider Internode has halted its regional broadband rollout due to an "unexpected and premature end" of the federal government's Broadband Connect Program.

  • Telstra Wholesale bows out of Broadband Connect

    Telstra will not participate as a wholesale provider in the federal government's new AU$878 million subsidised rural broadband scheme, leaving a number of smaller ISPs unable to provide new government-subsidised broadband to the bush without building their own infrastructure.

  • Internode rejoins Broadband Connect

    Internet service provider Internode will re-commence selling subsidised broadband services to rural areas where Telstra has ADSL infrastructure, under the federal government's AU$878 million Broadband Connect (BC) scheme.

  • Westnet unfazed by Telstra's Broadband Connect withdrawal

    Internet service provider Westnet plans to continue selling subsidised broadband services to rural areas under the federal government's Broadband Connect (BC) program, despite the decision of its wholesale provider, Telstra, not to participate in the scheme.

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    Apple has killed the video store; will ISPs be next?

    The Olympics are nearly over, and the Australian team deserves kudos for an excellent performance all around. Yet even as the Olympic sun sets on the Bird's Nest for the last time this weekend, millions of spectators around the world will be scanning their dials in the hope of finding something else to fill their viewing hours.

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