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    The Commonwealth Auditor-General has responded to accusations by Opposition communications spokesperson Bruce Billson that the tender process for the national fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) network has so far been unfair and anti-competitive.

  • Telstra: ACCC is fighting to keep G9 in fibre race

    The ACCC's vision of Australia's next-generation of broadband is designed to keep its rival G9 in the race to build a fibre-to-the node (FTTN) network and will sentence the country to a low speed future, according to Telstra.

  • Terria wants FTTN profit sharing with govt

    The Federal government will be able to share in any profits generated by the multibillion dollar national fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) network if Terria's bid wins out, with the consortium's chairman revealing that its proposal would see network financed via an equity-debt mix.

  • 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.

  • Conroy stonewalls on FTTN bid debate

    Senator Stephen Conroy has stonewalled the Opposition today by limiting his responses to questions regarding the tender process for the national fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) network at a parliamentary hearing.

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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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    Forget prez - vote Hillary for Optus

    Hillary Clinton's nine lives are not yet depleted and, despite allegations that her stubborn refusal to concede defeat earlier has fragmented her party, she fought her battle to the very end. By placing bets several ways, that battle may just turn into gold for her down the track. Has Optus taken a leaf out of Hillary's book?

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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.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Fit for purpose, not just for headlines

    With the OPEL bid cancelled and procedural questions dogging the FTTN bid, Australia is currently in something of a technological limbo.

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    ADSL2+ at last but at what cost?

    Much has been made of Telstra's decision to finally stop holding Australia to ransom, and to actually turn on the ADSL2+ equipment it has installed in what is apparently over 900 of its exchanges around the country.

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