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.
Commonwealth, state and local government representatives have agreed to work on a unified approach to Australia's broadband infrastructure as pressure mounts on the Federal government to insist on a structural separation of Telstra.
British Telecom on Tueday in the UK announced plans to roll out fibre connectivity to millions of UK homes, in an initiative worth 1.5bn.
Telstra has called on the Federal government to end the speculation around whether the telecommunications giant will be broken up.
Federal Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Stephen Conroy said yesterday he was open to fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) proposals as part of the national broadband network rollout but warned that the government would not increase its AU$4.7 billion budget.
Post-election adrenaline surging through his veins, one of the first acts performed by new Communications Minister Stephen Conroy was to disband the expert panel that his predecessor Helen Coonan had appointed last June to evaluate tenders for fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) construction.
If there ever were concrete evidence that Labor is blowing smoke up the proverbials of the Australian population, it came earlier this month as Senator Stephen Conroy, the man charged with promoting Labor's fibre-everywhere policy while simultaneously taking potshots at his counterpart Senator Helen Coonan, put his foot squarely in his mouth.
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