News (14)

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Tasmania to refresh govt network

    The Tasmanian government will start to refresh its telecommunications network from early 2007, with key suppliers due to be appointed by October this year.

  • Basslink resolution close: CitySpring

    Basslink cable owner CitySpring this week said negotiations to switch on the undersea fibre-optic cable to Tasmania were close to concluding, bringing hopes of increased broadband capacity to the island state.

More News >

Blogs (3)

  • 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.

  • 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 - 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?

Features and Case Studies (3)

  • 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.

  • Why Healthscope picked Technology One

    The chief information officer of Healthscope tells us why, despite a stakeholder bent for an SAP or Oracle supply chain and financial system, the Australian healthcare giant opted for Queensland-based vendor Technology One instead.

  • How to cover your IT assets

    A narrow product focus has isolated IT asset management from business goals and other company assets for too long. Find out how the industry is redefining the asset management value proposition.

Create an e-mail alert for "council"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
council


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

  1. Popularity: 4 aapt
  2. Popularity: 2 alp
  3. Popularity: 1 asset
  4. Popularity: 3 aurora
  5. Popularity: 1 aurora energy
  6. Popularity: 1 austrade
  7. Popularity: 2 basslink
  8. Popularity: 1 brian greig
  9. Popularity: 5 broadband
  10. Popularity: 1 broadband over powerline
  11. Popularity: 1 cameron murphy
  12. Popularity: 1 ceos
  13. Popularity: 2 conroy
  14. Popularity: 1 corning
  15. Popularity: 2 devonport
  16. Popularity: 1 election 2001
  17. Popularity: 5 fibre
  18. Popularity: 2 fibre to the home
  19. Popularity: 2 ftth
  20. Popularity: 1 giddings
  21. Popularity: 8 government
  22. Popularity: 2 hobart
  23. Popularity: 1 hydro
  24. Popularity: 1 ip australia
  25. Popularity: 1 jonathan spring
  26. Popularity: 1 kerry nettle
  27. Popularity: 2 lara giddings
  28. Popularity: 2 national broadband network
  29. Popularity: 5 nbn
  30. Popularity: 1 new south wales
  31. Popularity: 1 nsw
  32. Popularity: 1 p2p
  33. Popularity: 1 pauline hanson
  34. Popularity: 1 politics
  35. Popularity: 1 proposition
  36. Popularity: 1 regional
  37. Popularity: 1 remote
  38. Popularity: 1 richard alston
  39. Popularity: 1 rural
  40. Popularity: 1 stephen conroy
  41. Popularity: 3 tascolt
  42. Popularity: 1 tasmanian electronic commerce centre
  43. Popularity: 3 tastel
  44. Popularity: 1 tecc
  45. Popularity: 6 telstra
  46. Popularity: 1 the democrats
  47. Popularity: 1 the great debate
  48. Popularity: 1 the liberal party
  49. Popularity: 1 usyd
  50. Popularity: 1 utas

Latest Videos

Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • Phil Dobbie Conroy explains his magic filter
    In today's Twisted Wire, we put the screws on Communications Minister Stephen Conroy about his controversial internet filter policy.
  • Array Copenhagen lessons on green IT
    After the global financial crisis placed green IT on the back-burner, is it about to become sexy again due to the likes of New Zealand's new emissions trading scheme?
  • Array Welcome to National Censorship Day
    Conroy's blind adherence to his net filtering plan will abandon net neutrality ideals and push ISPs down a slippery slope of unprecedented responsibility for a callously politicised Australian internet.
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured