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  • Ballmer tells Oz: get with the broadband

    Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer yesterday tip-toed around Australia's broadband debate but said that if the country was to engage in cloud computing business that telcos and the government needed to 'get on with' delivering high speed broadband at a fair price.

  • Fibre and WiMax plans will not be derailed: Coonan

    Communications Minister Helen Coonan fought back today against attacks on the government's WiMax and fibre to the node plans, saying that opponents had sought to cloud the broadband debate.

  • Trujillo welcomes gov't end to fibre jam

    Telstra head Sol Trujillo has told staff he welcomes the government's decision to appoint a panel charged with breaking the fibre-to-the-node deadlock -- but it has no plans to negotiate over a rollout.

  • States picking up Conroy's broadband slack?

    Are the states trying to provide leadership on broadband to make up for an ineffectual national shadow communications Minister?

  • The Looking Glass world of telco deregulation

    Around the globe monopoly or near-monopoly markets are beating competitive ones in the broadband roll out race. Isn't that exactly the opposite of what we were told would happen?

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