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  • ACCC frames telco regulatory reviews

    The national competition regulator today released a position paper detailing what it described as a "robust framework" for reviewing existing and guiding future telecommunications regulation of fixed network services.

  • Howard blasts "reckless" Labor broadband plan

    Prime Minister John Howard today accused Labor of being reckless and short-sighted in proposing to raid the Future Fund to pay for a high-speed broadband network.

  • Conroy scores broadband goal

    Was it Communications Minister Senator Coonan herself who left the door open for Labor to launch its extremely popular new broadband policy?

  • Labor to miss schools broadband plan deadline

    The Liberals have accused the Labor government of "breaking another election promise" after Senator Kim Carr was unable to confirm that high-speed broadband access will be made available to schools in time to accompany government's planned one-PC-per-desk rollout for high school students.

  • Telstra: Govt broadband 'all about money and Labor'

    Telstra has accused the Coalition of turning the country's broadband network into an election issue rather than concentrating on how improvements in speed could affect Australians.

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  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Labor: Clueless on wireless?

    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.

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    The hangover

    It's no secret that shadow communications minister Senator Stephen Conroy didn't have a good day on Wednesday.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Govt's broadband strategy goes missing

    I should have known better, but I was still a bit suprised to find absolutely zilch for broadband in the latest Howard-Costello Budget.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Digital TV: back to the future?

    What a difference a decade makes.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Could they all just kiss and make up already?

    Australian telecoms is increasingly resembling the US during Prohibition, with Telstra as Al Capone and the ACCC as Eliot Ness.

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Features and Case Studies (2)

  • Budget 2007: IT misses out on windfall

    The biggest loser in this week's budget was broadband -- not one cent was allocated to improve infrastructure works. However, security was the winner with funding confirmed to fight intellectual property crime and cyber-terrorist attacks.

  • Conroy charts national broadband agenda

    The Australian Labor Party's ICT shadow minister wants a national fibre broadband network and enough skilled people to exploit it.

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