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  • New NBN a 'policy failure': Minchin

    Shadow Communications Minister Nick Minchin has slammed the government's decision this morning to form a company in partnership with the private sector to roll out its own fibre-to-the-home broadband network.

  • Terria spruiking hits fever pitch

    Broadband consortium Terria has begun a national campaign to raise public awareness about itself and the planned national broadband network, simultaneously lodging a submission to the opposition-led Senate committee enquiry about the network.

  • Telstra out of the running, Terria claims

    Telstra's apparent non-compliant bid has ruled the telco out of the running for the $4.7 billion National Broadband Network, Terria chairman Michael Egan claimed this afternoon.

  • TransACT quits Terria too

    TransACT has decided to pull out of Terria, the consortium bidding against Telstra for the government's $4.7 billion national broadband network, shortly after the departure of two other members AAPT and Soul.

  • AAPT doesn't affect bid: Terria

    National broadband network consortium Terria said today that AAPT's withdrawal from the group would not affect its ability to hand in a bid on 26 November.

Blogs (2)

  • 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.

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