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  • Conroy's broadband forum to cost $500k

    A conference to be held at the University of New South Wales on the future of fast broadband will cost taxpayers $528,000.

  • Extra $60m for regional telecoms

    Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has tabled his "initial" response to the regional telecommunications review completed by Dr Bill Glasson's team last year: $60 million in extra funding.

  • Conroy denies NBN cost-benefit need

    Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has denied the need for further cost-benefit analysis to be carried out on the $43 billion National Broadband Network project, according to his opposite Nick Minchin.

  • Tanner: Telstra split not a Labor back flip

    Despite icing a 2002 plan to pursue Telstra's structural separation due to concerns Labor had for its private shareholders, Minister for Finance Lindsay Tanner today said its current position was no different.

  • Turnbull attacks 'spin and paper' NBN

    Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has rubbished the National Broadband Network (NBN) as "nothing more than a press release".

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  • Read the blog post - Suzanne Tindal

    Web 2.0 taskforce: Will it stick?

    With its new taskforce, the government has got straight back on the web 2.0 horse after taking a nasty fall last year with Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and Finance Minister Lindsey Tanner's blogging trial, but how long will it stay on?

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Trust us with the NBN; we're politicians

    As Rudd and Conroy railroad the NBN into reality, the Liberals are trying to inject some due process into the whole thing by holding Labor accountable for its decisions. However, with the future of Australian telecoms on the line and no real viable alternative, is it just a bit late for accountability?

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Can the NBN survive the recession?

    In times of financial crisis, it's inevitable that companies reassess their financial plans.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Conroy faces a showdown at the FTTN corral

    Say what you will about Senator Stephen Conroy, but he is clearly not a man afraid of confrontation. Well, he'd better not be, because by killing off the OPEL WiMax project he has just set himself up for a battle with Telstra of Biblical proportions or a big meal of crow washed down with a $4.7 billion gift to SingTel Optus.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Conroy's Six: Can FTTN's gatekeepers deliver?

    Post-election adrenaline surging through his veins, one of the first acts performed by new Communications Minister Stephen Conroy was to disband the expert panel that his predecessor Helen Coonan had appointed last June to evaluate tenders for fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) construction.

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Features and Case Studies (21)

  • Exetel boss bets against NBN and Quigley

    Boss of internet service provider Exetel, John Linton, says the National Broadband Network should be handed to the only company that can build it Telstra and he's not impressed by NBN Co chief Mike Quigley.

  • Joyce: NZ's new broadband man

    New Zealand's new Communications Minister Stephen Joyce has the gargantuan task of dragging New Zealand into the next broadband age, a labour which will take 10 years.

  • Why the NBN is like Luhrmann's Australia

    On the same day that the bids for the national broadband network bids were handed into the government, Australia, Baz Luhrman's vain masterpiece was released to the plebs.

  • Does Conroy have the fibre?

    A remarkable four-car pile-up is about to happen with the National Broadband Network; goodness knows what will emerge from the wreckage. Maybe there'll be no survivors at all.

  • 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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