The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) will investigate whether the Future Fund was "tipped off" over the plan to split Telstra.
Despite icing a 2002 plan to pursue Telstra's structural separation due to concerns Labor had for its private shareholders, Minister for Finance Lindsay Tanner today said its current position was no different.
Key cabinet ministers have given differing views on Telstra's ownership of Foxtel, as the government prepares to carve up the telco giant.
MYOB subsidiary SmartyHost has been castigated by the Australian Communications and Media Authority for breaching the Spam Act.
The Federal Government has ousted Patricia Scott from her role leading Stephen Conroy's broadband department, installing former Bob Hawke senior staff and Victorian public servant Peter Harris in her place.
There's something to be said for the Japanese philosophy of Kaizen an idea of continually improving business via small changes something that unfortunately doesn't seem to glean many votes or impress punters.
In a massive "special edition" of our telco podcast Twisted Wire, we talk to virtually everyone in the telecommunications industry about the break-up of Telstra, including man of the moment, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy.
In this week's Twisted Wire podcast, Tasmanian NBN chair Doug Campbell talks about the roll-out of the National Broadband Network in that state, as well as its economic viability and the path ahead.
Rural areas will be welcoming the government's decision to put its money where its politicising is, funnelling $250m into a regional fibre upgrade to six rural centres. Remedying over a decade of near-neglect at the hands of telecoms privatisation, the investment could be the firmest step yet for Labor's NBN dream but with inevitable political questions and a looming election, Rudd and Conroy need to deliver, and quickly, to preserve the NBN's credibility.
Paul Fletcher has seen two sides of the telecommunications industry. First as an advisor to Senator Alston, the communications minister under the Howard Government, then he headed Regulatory Affairs for Optus. So what insights can he provide on the industry over the last decade?
The story of how Telstra lost its network is one of hubris and bungling, of misreading the play in Australia by men from the US who thought they knew everything already. Shareholders should never forget this.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy needs to stop handing his opposite Nick Minchin free kicks and put some transparency back into the National Broadband Network process before he finds himself losing favour with Chairman Rudd.
The appointment of Telstra's new management represents a break from the company's past of friction with the Federal Government and regulators. But, however it is presented, Telstra's stance towards those seeking to reduce it has to continue to be aggressively defensive.
Opinion: Conroy should end this futile tender process. Call Telstra's McGauchie and his executives in and read them the riot act. Appoint someone with appropriate credentials and resources not some panel to then negotiate a commercial deal on behalf of taxpayers.
Shadow Communications Minister Nick Minchin speaks to ZDNet.com.au in this video interview about his fight for the best broadband outcome for the Australian public.
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The company releases two new Celeron processors for desktops, as two chipsets wait in the wings.
Memory makers are shifting gears to boost production of a high-speed version of double data rate DRAM, the result of a shift in the Intel product line.
Howard Schmidt is convinced that post-Sept. 11, cybersecurity will transform the information technology world--for better or for worse. Do you agree?
Microsoft's upcoming Palladium architecture for 'Trusted Computing' may secure PCs, but it also threatens to turn people's computers into spies.
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