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  • Minchin expected NBN delays

    Shadow Communications Minister Nick Minchin today said that he was not surprised with the lack of progress shown thus far in the roll-out of the first leg of the National Broadband Network in Tasmania.

  • Cable bought for Tassie NBN roll-out

    The Tasmanian arm of the National Broadband Network Company, NBN Tasmania, has selected the company that will provide the fibre-optic cable for the new backhaul network in the island state.

  • Doug Campbell to be Tassie NBN chair

    The Federal and Tasmanian governments have appointed former Telstra executive Doug Campbell to chair the Tasmanian leg of the National Broadband Network.

  • Tassie NBN digging to start October

    Minister for Communications Stephen Conroy today said trench digging to lay fibre cables for the National Broadband Network in Tasmania would begin in October.

  • Tide rising on Tasmanian NBN

    Tasmania's builder of the National Broadband Network, Aurora Energy, yesterday said it would factor in rising sea levels in its assessment of where to lay fibre along the state's coastline.

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    Tasmanian Premier Bartlett talks NBN

    In today's Twisted Wire, Tasmanian Premier David Bartlett explains his vision for a broadband enabled Tasmania, that will "leapfrog every other nation on earth".

  • Read the blog post - Phil Dobbie

    Broadband hearing unplugged (day 1)

    Earlier this week (Tuesday 3 March) a number of telecommunications industry heavyweights fronted up to the Senate Select Committee on the National Broadband Network.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Let's build our own damn NBN

    If there's fibre running to the node down my street by the end of 2009, I'll eat my own shoes with mustard sauce.

Features and Case Studies (7)

  • Doug Campbell's in the hot seat

    Forget about Mike Quigley. The man who is really under the gun for delivering the National Broadband Network is former Telstra executive Doug Campbell.

  • Doug Campbell: Video interview

    Get the full picture on the Tasmanian leg of the National Broadband Network in this wide-ranging video interview with TNBN Company chairman and ex-Telstra executive Doug Campbell.

  • New NBN a threat to Telstra

    The Rudd Government's decision to build its own broadband network significantly cranks up the threat to Telstra's dominance in the telecommunications sector.

  • Telstra stalwarts to lead NBN Co

    Mike Quigley and Doug Campbell's long-standing relationships with Telstra and few of its rivals will lead Australia's telecommunications industry to question privately whether Telstra will receive a phenomenal level of access to the NBN decision-making processes.

  • 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.

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