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  • Should FTTN kill the current copper network?

    In its regulatory submission this week, Telstra says the new national fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) roll-out should not have to interface with current network technologies such as the copper ADSL2+ network, because of impacts on performance.

  • Telstra hits back at network information complaints

    Telstra Corp has hit back at claims by rivals bidding for the government's national broadband contract that say the network information the teleco giant has provided is "next to useless".

  • Rivals counter Telstra's 'misinformation'

    Eleven of Australia's second-tier telcos and Internet service providers have banded together to fight against what they describe as a "campaign of misinformation" by Telstra on the subject of telecommunications regulation.

  • Telstra rivals outline 'SpeedReach' fibre proposal

    An industry owned company dubbed "SpeedReach" would take control of any new fibre broadband network, under a proposal unveiled by Telstra's major competitors today.

  • Optus NBN plan would kill DSLAMs humanely

    Optus this week said that although it would bypass telephone exchanges and the ADSL infrastructure within them when building its National Broadband Network, it would do so in an "orderly" manner and guarantee wholesale pricing to ISPs whose assets were made redundant.

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  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Could you believe in Steve?

    For no particular reason that I can discern, a 1979 Kenny Rogers song popped into my head as I was considering the ever more complex morass that is the national broadband network tender which Senator Stephen Conroy defended in his CeBIT keynote speech.

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