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News (36)

• Govt shortlists NBN study advisors

  Several management consultancies are believed to have been shortlisted for the $53 million nine-month National Broadband Network (NBN) implementation study.

• Tassie tips $12.7m in Aurora's NBN

  Tasmanian Premier David Bartlett today announced the State Government would make a $12.7 million equity contribution to state-owned utility Aurora Energy for its fibre optic network, which will become part of the $43 billion National Broadband Network.

• 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.

• Budget '09: Smart grids get $100m

  The Federal Government has announced an up to $100 million investment in the 2009 Budget to assist the development of smart grid technology to create a "smarter and more efficient energy network".

• 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 (4)

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  Don't be an IT snake oil salesman

  IT often promises the government much with the big pull being productivity gains and cost savings, but does the government think about IT in the terms of something that will cure its ills or something which could backfire and give it process diarrhea for a decade?

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  BIG is butt ugly

  There's something to be said for the Japanese philosophy of Kaizen an idea of continually improving business via small changes something that unfortunately doesn't seem to glean many votes or impress punters.

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  Where next for telco number three?

  What's next for AAPT? Australia's number three telco refused to join Twisted Wire this week, so we decided to cover them anyway, guerrilla-style.

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  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.

Features and Case Studies (18)

• Budget 2007: IT misses out on windfall

  The biggest loser in this week's budget was broadband -- not one cent was allocated to improve infrastructure works. However, security was the winner with funding confirmed to fight intellectual property crime and cyber-terrorist attacks.

• Rudd awakening: Govt's plans for ICT

  Ahead of the election, with promises for nationwide broadband networks and digital revolutions in schools, the ICT industry could hope the government was on their side. But now the glamour of a sparkling new government has worn off, how ICT-friendly is the Rudd government really?

• Alcatel-Lucent's blatant NBN pitch

  There's a certain ridiculousness to Alcatel-Lucent's National Broadband Network video production that goes to the heart of an obvious worry that it will ultimately be left out when the cheques are signed.

• Ruddnet too good to be true

  With real risks and real competition, Malcolm Turnbull, questions the Prime Minister's promise of an affordable, high-speed broadband at a speed of 100 megabits a second to 90 per cent of Australian households via a $43 billion fibre-to-the-household network.

• Quigley's job is straightforward

  NBN Company executive chairman Mike Quigley and six other board members to be named this week have a series of straightforward "buy or build" decisions to make about Australia's fibre future.

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