A telecommunications analyst from investment advisory service, BBY, has labelled the government's $43 billion NBN plan "as risky as it gets" and said it will fail to attract investors in the current information vacuum.
Those companies wanting to be involved in the National Broadband Network implementation study will not be banned from also pitching for work in the construction process itself, according to an addendum to the initial request for tender documents released this afternoon.
Vodafone Australia has blamed Swedish vendor Ericsson for delays to the roll-out of its national 3G mobile network.
Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo announced this morning that the company has lodged its AU$5 million tender bond for the national fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) network.
A high level Telstra executive has labelled other potential bidders for the proposed FTTN network as "pretenders" after it was revealed the telco suggested to the government that it attach a multi-million dollar application fee and bond to all its network tender requests.
Great to see so many constructive comments on here definitely a case of the facts speaking for themselves.
Without consensus on labour issues, the eventual winner of the NBN may end up as little more than a lame duck and a cashed-up symbol of the conflict between the desire for progress and the lack of mechanisms to deliver it.
If there's one indication that customer relationship management (CRM) systems at telcos are screwed up it's got to be the phenomenon of the 'zero dollar' bill.
Fair is not what the National Broadband Network tender is about; it's bloodsport, and a fight for survival, and a challenge of the wills, and all the other sorts of superlatives you might expect from an Olympics announcer.
The vision of the future BT portrayed this week at an Australian conference was so far removed from how Telstra's David Quilty has described the British telco that I wonder if they were talking about the same UK.
The Rudd Government's decision to build its own broadband network significantly cranks up the threat to Telstra's dominance in the telecommunications sector.
There is no single candidate right now better suited to succeed Sol Trujillo as Telstra chief executive than the telco's current consumer marketing and channels chief David Moffatt.
ACCC officials with glasses of wine, a golden medal for Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and a few faux pas: the annual awards night of the Australian Telecommunications Users Group (ATUG) had it all.
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Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) will postpone the award of contracts for the construction and development of its third generation (3G) mobile network.
Telstra Country Wide has announced a AU$231 million investment in 2003/04 to improve services to regional areas.
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