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• 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.

• Consulting firm gave NBN Co domain name

  The National Broadband Network Company retrieved the nbnco.com.au web address from a consultancy led by Chris Worrad at a cost of around $4000, ZDNet.com.au understands.

• Correction: NBN Co didn't pay for domain

  Contrary to an earlier ZDNet.com.au report, the National Broadband Network Company did not pay to retrieve the nbnco.com.au web address from the consultancy led by Chris Worrad.

• NBN could repeat Aussat failure

  Analysis from the Royal Bank of Scotland has likened the investment in the National Broadband Network to a satellite network the government invested in during the 80s, which former Prime Minister Paul Keating once described as a billion dollar piece of "space junk".

• End users weakest security link: AFP

  Fewer than half of all home computer users protect their systems from viruses, cyber-crime and other hacking, Australian Federal Police e-crime chief Neil Gaughan told federal parliament this week in a wide-ranging testimony.

Blogs (22)

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  The people's NBN, now with 1001 uses

  Faced with a renewed threat in newly-appointed Tony Abbott and unknown-quantity communications portfolio ankle-biter Tony Smith, Stephen Conroy responded this week in the way any politician would: he gave lots, and lots, and lots of speeches.

• Senate Select finds Tassie is in the dark

  Next month the Senate Select Committee on the NBN will table its final report. It will reflect the views of 100 or so submitted documents and a series of public hearings.

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  A battery of opinions on the value of data

  As the National Broadband Network pricing debate continues, we should consider which is the most appropriate model for costing a bit that costs virtually nothing to carry.

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  All about separation, or all about copper?

  Labor's fibre-to-the-premises NBN was meant to be an act of freedom, a breaking-free from 100 years of copper infrastructure legacy and the start of something new. So why in the world are we still discussing Telstra's copper network?

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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.

Features and Case Studies (24)

• Telstra between a rock and the ACCC?

  The proposed regulatory reforms ahead of the roll-out of the National Broadband Network rely on a finely balanced carrot and stick approach. But will Telstra cooperate with the government's ultimatum?

• Minchin is gaining on Conroy

  Communications Minister Stephen Conroy needs to stop handing his opposite Nick Minchin free kicks and put some transparency back into the National Broadband Network process before he finds himself losing favour with Chairman Rudd.

• Telstra 2.0 won't solve the problem

  Former Communications Minister Richard Alston writes that it is critically important to reinvigorate the competitive process in Australia's telecommunications industry with the National Broadband Network and not simply replace one behemoth with another.

• 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.

• Stephen Conroy's stab in the dark

  The Federal Government's committal to spend up to $43bn of taxpayer funds without rigorous and detailed analysis and economic modelling of the National Broadband Network is simply extraordinary.

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