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• Alcatel's Quigley wins NBN chair

  Long-time Alcatel-Lucent veteran Mike Quigley has been appointed executive chairman of the National Broadband Network Company and is expected to eventually be its chief executive officer and managing director.

• NBN not worth the effort: Internode

  Internode managing director Simon Hackett this week said he had doubts about whether the National Broadband Network would ever be built and questioned whether it was worth the effort.

• NBN Company hires CIO, govt chief

  The National Broadband Network Company has nabbed Queensland Premier Anna Bligh's chief of staff to be its new government relations and external affairs chief, as well as separately appointing a chief information officer.

• Optus: NBN deal makes 'absolute sense'

  Optus has thrown its weight fully behind the government's decision to change the goal posts of its National Broadband Network to fibre-to-the-home technology and to form a new majority government-owned entity to build it.

• Sept start for NBN regional backhaul?

  Part of the government's National Broadband Network plan, the $250 million injection to create new backhaul links in regional areas, could start construction by September this year.

Blogs (2)

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  Telstra's last-mile strategy: Broadband limbo

  Should Telstra be investing in a pre-emptive defence against the NBN? Or should it go slow and wait like everybody else?

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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 (6)

• Telstra stalwarts to lead NBN Co

  Mike Quigley and Doug Campbell's long-standing relationships with Telstra and few of its rivals will lead Australia's telecommunications industry to question privately whether Telstra will receive a phenomenal level of access to the NBN decision-making processes.

• Exetel boss bets against NBN and Quigley

  Boss of internet service provider Exetel, John Linton, says the National Broadband Network should be handed to the only company that can build it Telstra and he's not impressed by NBN Co chief Mike Quigley.

• Cracks in Telstra's defence

  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.

• Telstra's AGM: A day to remember

  This morning, Telstra executives are limbering up behind the scenes as they get ready for their big yearly showing to shareholders at the annual general meeting.

• Joyce: NZ's new broadband man

  New Zealand's new Communications Minister Stephen Joyce has the gargantuan task of dragging New Zealand into the next broadband age, a labour which will take 10 years.

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