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Telstra goes 100Mbps on cable; trials set top box
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2009-11-18 22:47:43
Telstra has upgraded its Melbourne HFC network to provide 100Mbps download capability. The carrier is also introducing its own set-top box for free-to-air and BigPond TV channels.


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Aerial cables could halve the cost of NBN: Ericsson
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Networks

2009-08-19 02:49:03
Attaching NBN fibre to power poles instead of putting it in underground ducts would reduce the cost of the rollout by one third to a half, according to an Ericsson guru on NBN matters.


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Nick Minchin makes merry with NBN panel "admissions"
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications

Category: News

2009-05-18 23:52:40
The Shadow Minister for Broadband and Comms, Senator Nick Minchin, has yet again blasted the Federal Government over its claims following the announcement that the $4.7B NBN would be turning into a $43B NBN, saying that some members of the NBN Panel have admitted never giving any advice to the Government on investing in a “fibre to the home” network.


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NBN turf war erupts between Victoria and Queensland
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature

Category: Server

2009-04-14 01:12:36
The Victorian government is putting forward a strong case to be the home of the National Broadband Network (NBN), following an earlier claim by Queensland. New South Wales has yet to put up its hand for consideration.


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FTTH provider adopts Australian-designed hardware
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2009-03-18 19:12:55
OptiComm will use NEC equipment to roll out fibre to the premises (FTTP) to at least 50,000 new homes and businesses.


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Australia falling further down the FTTH ladder
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Technology feature

Category: Enterprise

2009-02-15 16:15:45
There are now more than 20 countries, including Latvia, Estonia and Russia, with FTTH penetration in excess of one percent of households: Australia is not among them.


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Opposition bemoans “veiled in secrecy” NBN process
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications

Category: News

2009-01-21 21:44:12
After news came through earlier today that the NBN Expert Panel had released its report, which the Government says it will not release, the inevitable cry of complaint from the Federal Opposition has arisen, blasting Senator Conroy for the secretive process.


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NBN “Expert Panel” releases report – but only to the Govt
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications

Category: News

2009-01-21 19:44:31
The Opposition’s desires to see the NBN (National Broadband Network) report released publicly seem to have been dashed by the Minister for Communication’s latest statement, which says the report has been received, but won’t be released to anyone else.


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Coalition demands Expert Panel’s NBN report: Minchin
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications

Category: News

2009-01-19 22:06:41
Ready to munch on the findings of the Expert Panel’s NBN report is one Senator Nick Minchin, the Shadow Minister for Broadband, who is pre-ripping into the Rudd Labor Government over the release (or otherwise) of the NBN recommendations.


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Coalition says Labor changing 98% broadband NBN promise
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications

Category: News

2009-01-17 22:05:23
Opposition Shadow Minister for Communications, Senator Nick Minchin, has put out a statement claiming Australia’s Federal Labor Government is trying to change its promise to deliver fibre based broadband to 98% of Australians by using wireless from commercial operators instead.


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Conroy “a manifest failure” over Telstra NBN exclusion: Minchin
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications

Category: News

2008-12-14 17:58:41
Australia’s Shadow Communications Minister, Senator Nick Minchin, has savaged the Rudd Labor Government and the Minister for Communications, Senator Stephen Conroy, over the “total ineptitude and mishandling” of the NBN process which has now seen Telstra excluded for a “remarkable” and “trivial reason”.


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With no NBN, ADSL2+ will drive the “next five years of broadband”
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications

Category: News

2008-12-03 05:57:39
Telecommunications research firm Market Clarity says that Aussies are switching to high-speed ADSL 2+ services, “with or without the government’s NBN”, in a trend that “will drive the next five years of broadband market development”.


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Quaking Quilty questions Singtel Optus $10 billion NBN “black hole”
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications

Category: News

2008-11-27 21:50:20
With many believing Telstra is set to win the National Broadband Network (NBN) tender, come what may, Telstra’s David Quilty is going out on an all-out attack on Singtel Optus, questioning its “$10 billion funding hole” and labelling it a “sub-prime NBN bidder”.


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NBN cutover a "billon dollar problem" - but NEC has a solution
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Networks

2008-11-23 22:57:52
Did the Labor Party factor this in when it costed the National Broadband Network at about $8 billion? According to NEC the costs in labour alone of cutting over telephone lines from the old telephone network to a future fibre to the node network could run to $100 per line.


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Pressure grows for 100Mbps broadband, at least!
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!

Category: Telecommunications blog

2008-09-29 02:33:00
The Australian Government has no clear plans for broadband beyond the 12Mbps minimum specified in its National Broadband Network RFP but in New Zealand and the US lobby groups are already pushing for at least 100Mbps by 2015.


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Telstra tears Terria a new one over NBN monopoly revelation
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications

Category: News

2008-09-09 04:06:43
Telstra has accused its National Broadband Network rival, Terria, of wanting what Terria accused Telstra of deeply desiring: a monopoly. Should we inform the Parker Bros?


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Telstra non-meekly states separation sucks
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications

Category: News

2008-09-05 02:02:14
Driven by a desire to destroy the dimension that is “structural separation”, Telstra has quoted the curiously named Kip Meek in an attempt to annihilate any action that would see separation succeed.


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Telstra structurally separates itself from structural separation
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications

Category: News

2008-08-27 00:53:36
The new “Dr Phil Burgess”, aka Group MD of Public Policy and Comms, David Quilty, has knitted Opposition Spokesman Bruce Billson a lovely message effectively telling him to get stuffed, and that as far as Telstra is concerned, structural separation is not an option.


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Telstra tells Terria: get serious!
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications

Category: News

2008-08-26 00:56:46
Telstra’s “War on Terria” takes another turn with a toothy tirade to “get serious or get out of the way”. Telstra’s telling Terria to “take that!”


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Australia’s NBN and FttN – fibre to the nowhere?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-08-07 23:56:38
Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN) has reached a “key moment” with August 22 set as the date by which carriers must submit the remaining “network information” the Government wants to send to NBN bidders, so they can then start finalising their NBN proposals. But as telecoms analyst Paul Budde states, the FttN proposed for Australia is already out of date, with FttH the preferred standard being rolled out overseas.


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