A health informatics professor from Sydney University today said Australia's e-health systems should be strictly open source rather than using proprietary software.
Telecom New Zealand has hit out at changes proposed by the NZ Government at the way phone services to uneconomic customers are funded under the telecommunications service obligations (TSO).
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Minister for Communications Stephen Conroy has won the support of the Greens, independent Nick Xenophon and Family First's Steven Fielding to have the government's telecommunications reform legislation debated before the end of the year.
Telstra says it is open to selling assets to the government's national broadband network but it needs a guarantee on returns.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has taken the rap for mistakenly making public confidential information about the value of Telstra's copper network assets.
The federal government will have to rely on the support of the entire Senate crossbench if it wants parliament to approve its plan to restructure Telstra before the end of the year.
Minister for Communications Stephen Conroy has released two key documents related to the first National Broadband Network process, which may clear the way for the Senate to debate the three key NBN Bills.
In a joint statement released this morning, telcos iiNet, Internode, Macquarie Telecom, Netspace, Optus, Primus, TransACT and VHA have voiced their support for legislation paving the way for the separation of larger competitor Telstra.
The head of one of Australia's biggest companies has expressed his dismay at the federal government's plan to break up Telstra.
Draft laws paving the way for the break-up of Telstra have passed the lower house of Federal Parliament, with Labor using its numbers to defeat a coalition move to delay its reform agenda.
The Coalition's attempt to delay the government's telecommunications reform package hangs in the balance as independents Steven Fielding and Nick Xenophon wait to meet with Communications Minister Stephen Conroy.
This afternoon Communications Minister Stephen Conroy described his opposite, Senator Nick Minchin, as a Luddite as he took questions from reporters on the Opposition's attempt to block the government's wide-ranging telecommunications industry reform legislation, which includes provisions to force the break-up of Telstra.
Seven new towns have been nominated as early recipients of Tasmania's National Broadband Network (NBN), bringing the total number for the island to 10.
The opposition has unveiled a scathing amendment to draft laws proposing to fundamentally restructure Telstra, in an attempt to delay the changes.
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