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  • NBN supplier round-up: Who's in

    Regardless of whether Telstra, Terria or anybody else wins the $4.7 billion national broadband network contract, network hardware suppliers are going to cash in to the tune of billions. We take you through the list of the most likely suspects to win the work.

  • Nov 26 could be broadband deadline

    Communications Minister Stephen Conroy will reportedly tomorrow (Wednesday) set November 26 as the final deadline for companies to submit bids to build and operate the government's planned $4.7 billion national broadband network (NBN).

  • Acacia up for national NBN bid

    Further details have emerged about Acacia, the shadowy bidder for the government's $4.7 billion national broadband network, including the fact that it is planning an Australia-wide roll-out that would not be confined to a single state.

  • Telstra delays NBN bid

    Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo today said the telco was waiting on more information from the federal government before deciding on whether or not to bid to build the National Broadband Network (NBN).

  • OpenNet wins Singapore NBN bid

    The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) has appointed the OpenNet consortium as the network company (NetCo) for the country's planned next-generation National Broadband Network (NBN).

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  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Let's build our own damn NBN

    If there's fibre running to the node down my street by the end of 2009, I'll eat my own shoes with mustard sauce.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    NBN tender turns into bloodsport

    Fair is not what the National Broadband Network tender is about; it's bloodsport, and a fight for survival, and a challenge of the wills, and all the other sorts of superlatives you might expect from an Olympics announcer.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    NBN a lose-lose deal for Telstra

    Labor's policy of socialised broadband has certainly proved much harder than the party believed it would be back when it was in Opposition, but it is Telstra that stands to lose the most from the NBN - and that applies whether it loses the NBN contract or wins it.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    US shows what OPEL could have been

    Sprint's WiMAX roll-out in Baltimore will prove the Australian government's decision to worm its way out of the Opel WiMAX contract was a short-sighted, and ultimately damaging, political stunt that has benefited nobody.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    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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