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• Telstra bids to tip Optus out of government deal

  Telstra has lauded the Northern Territory government's decision to put to tender the AU$25 million Advanced Communication Strategy (ACS) contract for delivery of services to government departments.

• Optus wins AU$50m government deal

  Singapore Telecommunications-owned telecommunications player Optus has won an AU$50.5 million extension to a contract to supply voice and data services to a group of federal government bodies.

• Telstra pips Optus on warning system

  The Victorian Government has announced that Telstra has been chosen to build a national phone-based warning system.

• Optus still wants Telstra split up

  The nation's number two telco Optus said today it still wanted Telstra's wholesale and retail arms separated from each other, and hadn't noticed any change in the company's stance towards its rivals in recent times.

• ATO confirms $186.5m Optus deal

  The Australian Taxation Office today has confirmed Optus as its managed network services provider in a deal worth $186 million over four years up to $55 million less than previously indicated.

Blogs (51)

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  Broadband hearing unplugged (day 1)

  Earlier this week (Tuesday 3 March) a number of telecommunications industry heavyweights fronted up to the Senate Select Committee on the National Broadband Network.

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  Broadband hearing unplugged (day 2)

  The second day of hearings last week (4 March) for the Senate Select Committee on the National Broadband Network.

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  The more things change...

  With all the excitement over the iPhone, few people have noticed that 1 July was the 11th anniversary of the deregulation of Australia's telecommunications market.

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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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  Do we need the legislative blackmail?

  Virtually everyone in the telecommunications industry has their say in the Senate Standing Committee's public hearing into the pending legislation to split up Telstra, in this week's Twisted Wire podcast.

Features and Case Studies (51)

• Bringing Telstra into the NBN fold

  Optus CEO Paul O'Sullivan had it right when he said that the new National Broadband Network would be a commercial failure unless there was only one network that included Telstra's fixed-line assets.

• Quigley's job is straightforward

  NBN Company executive chairman Mike Quigley and six other board members to be named this week have a series of straightforward "buy or build" decisions to make about Australia's fibre future.

• Paul Fletcher's Wired Brown Land: Review

  Former Optus executive Paul Fletcher's book "Wired Brown Land? Telstra's Battle for Broadband" details the history of broadband communication in our nation and highlights why it is impossible that Telstra will give up in its fight for dominance, despite the wounds it has recently taken.

• Wired Brown Land winner revealed

  Find out which entry to our competition won a copy of Wired Brown Land, the new book on Australia's telecommunications industry.

• When a vacuum becomes vacuous

  The silence clinging to Stephen Conroy's National Broadband Network deliberations may have fried some brains in Australia's telecommunications industry.

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