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.
Ovum's David Kennedy says Australia can have a world-leading telecommunications regime if it wants one.
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.
Release of a new five-year federal e-government strategy, originally planned for late this year, is now likely to slip to early next year, according to government sources.
Ovum's David Kennedy says Australia can have a world-leading telecommunications regime if it wants one.
The federal government intends to introduce legislation that will ban unsolicited commercial e-mail, the Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Senator Richard Alston announced today.
Steve Wood, president of Nortel Networks, Australia and New Zealand, defends his company's moves into a wireless future.
The brawl over the true state of information and communications technology (ICT) employment has taken another twist with the Australian Information Industry Association's (AIIA) release of figures indicating the market is stabilising.
Australia's information technology job market is returning to steady growth, with seasonal factors in recent months obscuring the underlying trend, according to a leading recruitment index.
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".
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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