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News (41)

• Labor kicks off FTTN funding feud in parliament

  In preparation for its fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) rollout, the Federal Labor government is resuming its campaign to change legislation to allow it to access the AU$2 billion regional and rural Communications Fund, which the government claims is needed to bankroll part of the network's construction.

• Telstra tells FTTN rivals to 'put up or shut up'

  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.

• Liberals misfire in FTTN funding attack

  Opposition Communications spokesperson, Bruce Billson, has misfired in an attack on the Federal government over the use of the AU$2.4 billion Communications Fund to back the national fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) network.

• Liberals: We will block Labor's FTTN funding

  Opposition Communications spokesperson Bruce Billson has said the Coalition will attempt to block the Federal government's proposed use of the AU$2 billion Communications Fund to build its national FTTN network in the Senate.

• Rural broadband guarantee extended till 2012

  The government has extended its subsidy to help rural Australians establish a broadband connection by four years.

Blogs (10)

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  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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  Dear carriers: More walking, less talking

  Sometimes, a well-placed and well-timed letter can make all the difference. Other times, it can make no difference at all and even hurt your case. This week's missive by the Competitive Carriers' Coalition, I would suggest, falls into the latter category.

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  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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  Too little, too late, for the local loop?

  The news this week that Canberra-based TransACT was going to start rolling out fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) services it announced in May, was at first intriguing.

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  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.

Features and Case Studies (4)

• Joyce: NZ's new broadband man

  New Zealand's new Communications Minister Stephen Joyce has the gargantuan task of dragging New Zealand into the next broadband age, a labour which will take 10 years.

• NBN now a dead parrot

  Telstra's decision to upgrade its cable definitely now means that the National Broadband Network won't get built. This policy has ceased to be, it rests in peace. This is an ex-policy.

• Does Conroy have the fibre?

  A remarkable four-car pile-up is about to happen with the National Broadband Network; goodness knows what will emerge from the wreckage. Maybe there'll be no survivors at all.

• How to fix Australia's telco policy conundrum

  Ovum's David Kennedy says Australia can have a world-leading telecommunications regime if it wants one.

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