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• Thodey: NBN speeds a hard sell

  Telstra chief executive David Thodey today said that realism was needed on how many people would take up high speed services offered by the National Broadband Network (NBN) given that only 5 per cent of the telco's home customers had taken up its fast ADSL2+ service.

• BHP chair: Telstra break-up is punitive

  The head of one of Australia's biggest companies has expressed his dismay at the federal government's plan to break up Telstra.

• Thodey: Shareholders king in NBN talks

  Telstra's main objective when it comes to a National Broadband Network (NBN) was to protect value for its shareholders, chief executive David Thodey said today.

• Tasmania must have NBN tender: Conroy

  Communications Minister Stephen Conroy seemed to throw water on industry fears today that divvying up the Tasmanian National Broadband Network might not involve a normal tendering process, saying contracts would definitely be put out to market.

• Intel wants WiMax for rural NBN

  Intel said today that it would approach the Federal Government about using WiMax for the 10 per cent of the population in rural areas who won't benefit from the government's $43 billion fibre-to-the-home network.

Blogs (18)

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  The people's NBN, now with 1001 uses

  Faced with a renewed threat in newly-appointed Tony Abbott and unknown-quantity communications portfolio ankle-biter Tony Smith, Stephen Conroy responded this week in the way any politician would: he gave lots, and lots, and lots of speeches.

• Senate Select finds Tassie is in the dark

  Next month the Senate Select Committee on the NBN will table its final report. It will reflect the views of 100 or so submitted documents and a series of public hearings.

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  All about separation, or all about copper?

  Labor's fibre-to-the-premises NBN was meant to be an act of freedom, a breaking-free from 100 years of copper infrastructure legacy and the start of something new. So why in the world are we still discussing Telstra's copper network?

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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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  Tasmanian NBN: Small step or a giant leap?

  Like the engineers that sat down on day one with an empty blackboard and a mission to get man to the moon and back, building the NBN from the ground up is a daunting and complex opportunity that will present more than its share of challenges.

Features and Case Studies (24)

• The smart choice for Telstra

  A simple way forward for the National Broadband Network and for Telstra has now emerged.

• 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.

• Hoffman is Conroy's tasty new media carrot

  Hoffman's position on the board will ensure that the National Broadband Network Company can engage with the content industry in a meaningful way.

• Time for a regulation rethink

  Loosening the regulatory controls on Telstra might actually make it easier to attract customers away from its copper network and onto the new and shiny National Broadband Network.

• Don't write off Telstra just yet

  The Federal Government's preferred National Broadband Network partner is due to be nominated shortly. As that moment looms, and Stephen Conroy's language becomes more aggressive, Telstra's share price has been imploding.

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