Despite icing a 2002 plan to pursue Telstra's structural separation due to concerns Labor had for its private shareholders, Minister for Finance Lindsay Tanner today said its current position was no different.
On the first official day of the federal election campaign, Labor has placed IT at the centre of its agenda for growth, issuing a challenge to the Coalition on broadband and procurement.
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Australia's telecommunications industry is about to see a major structural shift as it did upon the opening of competition in 1997.
Prime Minister John Howard's ministerial reshuffle will deny the outgoing Special Minister of State, Senator Eric Abetz, the opportunity to launch a far-reaching e-government strategy developed over the past several months.
Pretty soon, the government will be screening and filtering our email as well as making blogs like this one disappear.
Former Communications Minister Richard Alston writes that it is critically important to reinvigorate the competitive process in Australia's telecommunications industry with the National Broadband Network and not simply replace one behemoth with another.
Former Optus executive Paul Fletcher's book "Wired Brown Land? Telstra's Battle for Broadband" details the history of broadband communication in our nation and highlights why it is impossible that Telstra will give up in its fight for dominance, despite the wounds it has recently taken.
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Unwired CEO, David Spence, has urged Australia's communications regulators to protect a tranche of prime wireless broadband spectrum due to be auctioned September from anti-competitive behaviour by existing carriers.
While Richard Alston and Daryl Williams were often criticised for their inept handling of the IT portfolio, perhaps Helen Coonan, Australia's new communications minister, can be the one to break this cursed trend.
The Queensland government has used its buying power to increase mobile coverage within the state, after it "got tired of waiting for the federal government to do something".
Telstra Country Wide has announced a AU$231 million investment in 2003/04 to improve services to regional areas.
The Federal Government has announced it will make it illegal to change a mobile phone's unique IMEI number in a move to strengthen attempts to end rampant mobile theft.
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