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'State of the Regions' report bemoans state of broadband in Australia
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Policy & Regulation

2008-12-07 23:40:25
A war of words has erupted between the Australian Local Government Assocation (ALGA) and the Federal Opposition following release by ALGA of it annual economic snapshot of Australia's regions which quantifies the considerable deleterious impact on regional Australia of inadequate broadband services.


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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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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 But as telecoms analyst Paul Budde states, the FttN proposed for Australia is already out of date, with FttH the preferred standard being rolled out overseas.


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Australian Government further delays “National Broadband Network”
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-07-18 11:24:57
With any Australian fibre-based broadband network still up to 5 years away, the date of completion just got extended by at least 6 months as the Australian Federal Government extends the time for “robust proposals” to be submitted for consideration. As usual, the Federal Opposition is outraged!


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Basslink botch-up stymies Tasmanian broadband
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Networks

2008-05-12 01:48:07
The Tasmanian Government's hopes of breaking Telstra's monopoly of fibre access to the island have foundered with the owners of alternative capacity on the Basslink power cable playing hardball.


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The non-sniffable OPEL smell of WiMAX
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-04-07 20:51:26
As we all know, the Optus and Elders joint-venture called OPEL was felled by the Federal Government, not only seeking to save almost $1b but promote its own fibre network at the expense of next-gen WiMAX. What a shame.


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Government claims 38 percent shortfall in Opel wireless coverage
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!

Category: Telecommunications blog

2008-04-02 01:27:00
The Federal Government has found a loophole that has enabled it to extricate itself from the much maligned deal under which the previous Coalition Government commited almost $1 billion to the Optus - Elders joint venture in return for the provision of broadband services to huge areas of regional and rural Australia, but the means by which it has done this seem highly questionable.


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Australian Government kills Opel broadband venture
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Policy & Regulation

2008-04-01 17:26:37
The Federal Government has told the Opel Optus/elders JV that was granted almost $1b of federal funding to roll out regional broadband services that it has not met requirements, and the contract has been terminated.


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