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News (61)

• NBN legislation concerns Greens

  The Australian Greens yesterday said they would not hand the Federal Government a blank cheque to get the National Broadband Network legislation through the Senate.

• Conroy calls for NBN Co law feedback

  Communications Minister Stephen Conroy is seeking views on the legislative framework that will govern the National Broadband Network Company as the Communications Senate Committee dissects his first piece of NBN legislation.

• Xenophon backs Telstra split

  Independent senator Nick Xenophon over the weekend said he backed a structural separation of communication giant Telstra as long as regional Australia got a fair deal.

• NBN bill worries infrastructure players

  Representatives of Australian critical infrastructure providers have expressed concern that delivering information to the government under its amended National Broadband Network legislation could be costly and conflict with anti-terrorism rules.

• 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.

Blogs (6)

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  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.

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  And the NBN winner is...

  Next week the government will announce the winning bidder for the build of the National Broadband Network. The announcement is expected when Kevin Rudd returns from the G20 in London.

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  Will the NBN kill digital TV as we know it?

  As the NBN bypasses the airwaves and offers a new pipe into 90 per cent of Australia's homes, could long-languishing IPTV services spell the beginning of the end for TV as we know it?

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  The longest last mile

  How much should Telstra be charging for unconditioned local loop?

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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 (14)

• 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.

• 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.

• Competition reality a sly fiction

  Like Rudd, the ingrained cynicism and frustration at things not going to plan in Australia's telecommunications industry blinds ACCC chair Graeme Samuel to the possibility that he is part of the problem.

• 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.

• Paul Fletcher's Wired Brown Land: Review

  Former Optus executive Paul Fletcher's book "Wired Brown Land? Telstra's Battle for Broadband" details the history of broadband communication in our nation and highlights why it is impossible that Telstra will give up in its fight for dominance, despite the wounds it has recently taken.

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