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  • G9 "officially" enters FTTN fray

    update:The competition to build a national fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) broadband network stepped up today, with the Optus-led G9 consortium officially confirming it will enter the fray.

  • Telstra: ACCC is fighting to keep G9 in fibre race

    The ACCC's vision of Australia's next-generation of broadband is designed to keep its rival G9 in the race to build a fibre-to-the node (FTTN) network and will sentence the country to a low speed future, according to Telstra.

  • G9 to launch FTTN bid as alterego, Terria

    The G9 consortium has announced its transformation into a new entity named Terria, ahead of lodging its AU$5 million bond with the government to bid on the national fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) network.

  • Telstra: G9 is 'expensive, dangerous, dysfunctional'

    Telstra has published a response to the G9 consortium's fibre-to-the-node proposal, calling it an expensive and dangerous proposal that "imposes a tortured, dysfunctional ownership and management structure"

  • ACCC rejects G9 proposal with a thumbs-up

    Competition watchdog the ACCC has rejected a draft proposal by the Optus-led G9 consortium on building Australia's fibre-to-the-node network, despite giving the plan a cautious thumbs-up.

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    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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