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  • Council bureaucracy delays Tassie fibre rollout

    Delays in securing local council approvals have pushed back the planned launch of a trial of a new fibre to the home (FTTH) service in Tasmania by almost four months.

  • Conroy: NBN won't be an eyesore

    Minister for Communications Stephen Conroy today assured local council representatives that the National Broadband Network (NBN) fibre infrastructure would not be an eye-sore on their landscapes.

  • Arnhem Land gets $34m fibre roll-out

    Rio Tinto Alcan, the Northern Territory government and Telstra have decided to "broadband" Arnhem Land in the northern territory, laying 800km of fibre-optic cable.

  • Tassie opposition slams broadband delays

    Tasmanian Liberal Senator Guy Barnett has slammed both the Tasmanian Premier and the Federal Government for not resolving the problem of poor broadband coverage in the state.

  • Port Augusta council unveils ADSL2+, optical desire

    ADSL2+ and optical fibre are the only technologies good enough for the Port Augusta City Council's planned new network.

Blogs (7)

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    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.

  • Read the blog post - Darren Greenwood

    Has New Zealand's smiling assassin delivered?

    One year into its tenure, how has the new New Zealand Government performed on issues of technology and telecommunications?

  • Read the blog post - Phil Dobbie

    NBN should be free, says economist

    Why the National Broadband Network should be free, and other stories from another day of the Senate Select Committee on the Rudd Government's telco infrastructure baby.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Telstra's 100Mbps: The great PSTN robbery

    Many Australians are drooling at the prospect of 100Mbps broadband, but Trujillo seems to have a bigger endgame in mind. As Telstra poaches customers from the PSTN and NBN, he'll leave more poison pills than we've seen since Phar Lap.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    NBN needs workers on board

    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.

Features and Case Studies (5)

  • Around the world in ... Fibre-to-the-home

    If the world's homes are to enjoy the same high speed connectivity as its offices, the current thinking goes, then fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) will soon become necessary. However, not all Internet economies were created equal.

  • Giant Aussie 2009 predictions round-up

    What will 2009 hold for Australia's ICT industry? We asked dozens of local leaders for their predictions; and this is what they came up with.

  • Thin clients a permanent fixture at Maroochy Shire

    New technology gains legitimacy when it solves real business problems, but becomes indispensable when it offers to take that business in completely new directions. Such has been the case at Maroochy Shire Council, where a quite conventional thin-client rollout is now facilitating new ways of working for employees in the office and on the road.

  • Broadband: Lessons from South Korea

    Connection speeds that Australians can only dream of are readily available to South Korean consumers and businesses -- thanks to government support for a massive infrastructure rollout.

  • Stop buying IT you don't need

    'Rightsizing' need not be ominous management-speak for losing your job. Here's how to make sure your IT infrastructure is the right size for the job.

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