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News (7)

• Gippsland TAFE to train NBN workers

  The Central Gippsland Institute of TAFE in Victoria will upgrade some of its training facilities to prepare students for jobs helping to construct the $43 billion National Broadband Network, the Federal Government announced today.

• Conroy's Broadband Future Conference: Photos

  Telstra has not been separated and construction of the NBN on the mainland is still in the pipeline, but today saw Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd kick off a conference that was designed to help Australia understand how 100 megabits per second broadband can be used.

• Conroy's broadband forum to cost $500k

  A conference to be held at the University of New South Wales on the future of fast broadband will cost taxpayers $528,000.

• WA Govt bins $1bn broadband network

  The Western Australian Government has decided to bin its plan to roll out a statewide broadband network.

• Telstra, Terria jostle for position

  Terria and Telstra today welcomed Communications Minister Stephen Conroy's move to name 26 November as the final deadline for bids to build and operate the planned national broadband network, but did not change their positions on how the initiative should go forward.

Blogs (6)

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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.

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  Dancing with the NBN Co stars

  Time will tell how the rest of the NBN Co board shapes up, but it's hard to dismiss the credentials of its two most high-profile appointments so far.

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  From show pony to dead horse

  Telstra's 21Mbps Next-G boost and Internode's new 100Mbps FttH networks may be both companies' show ponies, but when it comes to helping most of us, their need-for-speed posturing is just a box-and-dice distraction that we've all seen before.

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  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.

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  12 days without ADSL: A local loop eulogy

  When your broadband speeds are limited to 38Kbps it's not hard to join the ranks of people demanding the NBN already. Telstra's copper network is a renovator's delight.

Features and Case Studies (2)

• Conroy should play NBN hard ball

  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.

• Future direction trapped in halt state

  Stephen Conroy's opus on the future direction of Australia's Digital Economy mainly curates existing success stories and government policies, and does little to demonstrate any form of roadmap to take the nation out of the Dark Ages.

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