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  • Broadband guarantee boosted by new rules

    The Federal government has released guidelines for the Australian Broadband Guarantee (ABG) it says will make the program more effective.

  • E-security review to probe broadband network

    The federal government is to conduct a full review of the security of public and private sector information and communications networks.

  • Telstra must be separated, says 2020 Summit

    The recently published 2020 summit Final Report has recommended that the government looks seriously into the separation of its national fibre-to-the-node provider, echoing repeated calls by rival telcos to break up Telstra if it wins the national broadband network tender.

  • Livid Libs bat on G9's behalf for detail disclosure

    The government's bill to force Telstra to disclose its network information to rival companies so they can effectively tender for the national fibre-to-the-node broadband network was passed by the Senate yesterday.

  • Broadband network big ticket item in budget

    Senator Conroy says the proposed national broadband network will rival the Snowy Mountains hydro scheme in terms of scale and significance.

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  • 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.

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