items tagged with Telecommunications Policy
Telstra competitors slam Sol's tip to incoming US President Obama
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2009-01-20 01:31:19
An organisation representing a range of Australian carriers and ISPs has railed against Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo's "unsolicited advice" to the incoming Barack Obama administration that it should put part of an economic stimulus package towards improving fixed and wireless broadband in the US.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2009-01-20 01:31:19
An organisation representing a range of Australian carriers and ISPs has railed against Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo's "unsolicited advice" to the incoming Barack Obama administration that it should put part of an economic stimulus package towards improving fixed and wireless broadband in the US.
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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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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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Internet filter trials delayed, P2P now included!
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-12-24 04:02:17
Although due to begin on or before the 24th of December 2008, Australia’s draconian Internet content filter trials have now been postponed until mid-January 2009, with peer-to-peer and BitTorrent traffic filtering also set to be performed. Here’s an idea – delay to trial all right – but to mid-Jan, 2099!
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-12-24 04:02:17
Although due to begin on or before the 24th of December 2008, Australia’s draconian Internet content filter trials have now been postponed until mid-January 2009, with peer-to-peer and BitTorrent traffic filtering also set to be performed. Here’s an idea – delay to trial all right – but to mid-Jan, 2099!
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Your chance to shape Australia's digital future
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2008-12-18 20:37:01
Australia's minister for broadband, communications and the digital economy, senator Stephen Conroy, has called for any interested Australians to help shape Australia's digital future, with the release of a consultation paper on the future directions of Australia's digital economy.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2008-12-18 20:37:01
Australia's minister for broadband, communications and the digital economy, senator Stephen Conroy, has called for any interested Australians to help shape Australia's digital future, with the release of a consultation paper on the future directions of Australia's digital economy.
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Media Q&A with Conroy over Telstra NBN exclusion
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-15 02:10:47
Australia's Minister for Communications, Senator Stephen Conroy, held a press briefing at 2.30pm today to discuss Telstra being excluded from the National Broadband Network (NBN) process. Here is the transcript of the Q&A session with the assembled media thereafter, supplied by the Senator's spokesperson and media adviser, Tim Marshall.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-15 02:10:47
Australia's Minister for Communications, Senator Stephen Conroy, held a press briefing at 2.30pm today to discuss Telstra being excluded from the National Broadband Network (NBN) process. Here is the transcript of the Q&A session with the assembled media thereafter, supplied by the Senator's spokesperson and media adviser, Tim Marshall.
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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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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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Telemarketing: the $1.58 billion dollar time waster
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2008-12-07 23:17:30
Telemarketing might be big business, but Australians hate it - not least because it's costing $A1.58 billion a year in wasted time.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2008-12-07 23:17:30
Telemarketing might be big business, but Australians hate it - not least because it's costing $A1.58 billion a year in wasted time.
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Aussie NBN network already being bypassed by Next G?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-07 20:47:21
With plenty of talk recently about how wireless technologies could make the proposed Australian "National Broadband Network" or NBN redundant, Telstra is already demonstrating an 800km rollout of fibre in the Northern Territory alongside wireless solutions that are serving rural and regional Australia with high-speed broadband – today.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-07 20:47:21
With plenty of talk recently about how wireless technologies could make the proposed Australian "National Broadband Network" or NBN redundant, Telstra is already demonstrating an 800km rollout of fibre in the Northern Territory alongside wireless solutions that are serving rural and regional Australia with high-speed broadband – today.
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Telstra slams Whirlpool and “dead tree journalists” over unfair NBN coverage
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-01 20:43:10
Seemingly sick to death of constant attack on Telstra from “dead tree journalists” with an agenda, competitors and "geeky" Whirlpool critics, Telstra’s “Telstra-phile” Rod Bruem is taking the broom to the critics and whacking them over the head with it.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-01 20:43:10
Seemingly sick to death of constant attack on Telstra from “dead tree journalists” with an agenda, competitors and "geeky" Whirlpool critics, Telstra’s “Telstra-phile” Rod Bruem is taking the broom to the critics and whacking them over the head with it.
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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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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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Coalition clueless on broadband
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-11-05 00:38:11
Shadow communications minister, Nick Minchin, has been damning in his criticism of the Rudd Government's broadband policy, but has failed to offer any alternative.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-11-05 00:38:11
Shadow communications minister, Nick Minchin, has been damning in his criticism of the Rudd Government's broadband policy, but has failed to offer any alternative.
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NZ telecoms users calls for government broadband leadership
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2008-11-03 20:49:57
On the eve of the country's general election, The Telecommunications Users Group of New Zealand (TUANZ) has followed up its March 2008 manifesto with an action plan calling on the new government display strong leadership and develop a 'National Digital Architecture'.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2008-11-03 20:49:57
On the eve of the country's general election, The Telecommunications Users Group of New Zealand (TUANZ) has followed up its March 2008 manifesto with an action plan calling on the new government display strong leadership and develop a 'National Digital Architecture'.
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Forget the review says Telstra; we can handle rural comms
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-10-15 02:38:58
Telstra has slammed the Regional Telecommunications Independent Review committee's 385 page report and its 50 recommendations based on more than 20 public hearings, several stakeholder briefings and over 220 submissions, saying that the future of rural telecommunications is safe in Telstra's hands, unfettered by regulation and government intervention.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-10-15 02:38:58
Telstra has slammed the Regional Telecommunications Independent Review committee's 385 page report and its 50 recommendations based on more than 20 public hearings, several stakeholder briefings and over 220 submissions, saying that the future of rural telecommunications is safe in Telstra's hands, unfettered by regulation and government intervention.
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Aust Gov't told to revamp rural communications policy
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2008-10-14 22:48:27
In its first report the Regional Telecommunications Independent Review Committee (RTIRC) has recommended major changes to government policy to improve communications services in regional, rural and remote areas of Australia.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2008-10-14 22:48:27
In its first report the Regional Telecommunications Independent Review Committee (RTIRC) has recommended major changes to government policy to improve communications services in regional, rural and remote areas of Australia.
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T4 accuses Telstra of “nonsense” over NBN pricing
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-10-09 00:52:45
Dubbing Telstra’s recent statements as an “amazing broadband price yo-yo” and accusing Telstra over its ability to count or be honest over the cost of the Australian National Broadband Network (NBN), the T4 (Tell the Trust Telstra) coalition says it’s all a load of “nonsense”.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-10-09 00:52:45
Dubbing Telstra’s recent statements as an “amazing broadband price yo-yo” and accusing Telstra over its ability to count or be honest over the cost of the Australian National Broadband Network (NBN), the T4 (Tell the Trust Telstra) coalition says it’s all a load of “nonsense”.
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Telstra quick to claim broadband as infrastructure priority
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-10-02 23:12:15
Telstra’s still-new “Dr Phil”, David Quilty, has issued a statement urging the Australian Federal Government to make broadband its first infrastructure priority, affirming Telstra’s belief it is still the best company placed to build the National Broadband Network and bemoaning the regulatory hurdles that Telstra says has cost 3 years of time.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-10-02 23:12:15
Telstra’s still-new “Dr Phil”, David Quilty, has issued a statement urging the Australian Federal Government to make broadband its first infrastructure priority, affirming Telstra’s belief it is still the best company placed to build the National Broadband Network and bemoaning the regulatory hurdles that Telstra says has cost 3 years of time.
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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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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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Broadband the Singapore way. What lessons for Australia?
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-09-28 20:02:22
The Singapore Government has just announced a consortium, OpenNet, as the winner of its RFP for the building of a next generation broadband access network, and expects it to deliver a fibre to the home network capable of 1Gbps to over 90 percent of Singaporean homes and businesses by 2012. The way Singapore has gone about this is in stark contrast to Australia.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-09-28 20:02:22
The Singapore Government has just announced a consortium, OpenNet, as the winner of its RFP for the building of a next generation broadband access network, and expects it to deliver a fibre to the home network capable of 1Gbps to over 90 percent of Singaporean homes and businesses by 2012. The way Singapore has gone about this is in stark contrast to Australia.
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Nick Minchin, minister-for-the-sale-of-Telstra, now shadow comms minister
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2008-09-21 23:43:50
Senator Nick Minchin, who, as finance minister in the Howard Government had charge of the sale of the final tranche of Telstra, is now shadow communications minister.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2008-09-21 23:43:50
Senator Nick Minchin, who, as finance minister in the Howard Government had charge of the sale of the final tranche of Telstra, is now shadow communications minister.
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Lawyer to lead Aussie Government push for Digital Economy
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2008-09-14 00:31:21
iTWire has learnt that Mia Garlick, an Australian lawyer who was most recently product counsel for YouTube, has been appointed to head the Australian Government's drive for the digital economy future, as assistant secretary in the Department of Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy (BCDE)
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2008-09-14 00:31:21
iTWire has learnt that Mia Garlick, an Australian lawyer who was most recently product counsel for YouTube, has been appointed to head the Australian Government's drive for the digital economy future, as assistant secretary in the Department of Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy (BCDE)
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