A day after Government announced structural reforms for the telecommunications industry that wiped $2 billion off Telstra shareholder value, the company’s share price has rebounded, clawing back nearly all of its lost ground.

As Senate Greens turned up the volume on demands for more detail of Government plans for mandatory internet filtering, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy recommitted to releasing a consultants report on the issue when it is completed.

For those who don't know him well at all – say, me and Telstra – Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has made a remarkable trip in a short time: from factional deal-maker in opposition to policy hard-head in Government.

End-user pricing for access to basic services through the National Broadband Network would need to be comparable to existing price levels for the venture to be successful, NBN Company executive chairman Mike Quigley says.

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy expects the complex negotiations with Telstra over its regulatory future to be complete by the beginning of December, and says enough preparatory work has already been done to make that deadline realistic.

The following is a transcript of the opening address of Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy to a Media Conference at Parliament House, Canberra on Tuesday September 15.

Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner has rejected suggestions that the sell-down of Telstra shares by the Future Fund three weeks ago was in anticipation of the government’s announcement today of telecommunications regulatory reform.

Anticipating deep shortages of technical and trade skills as it plans to roll-out its National Broadband Network, NBN Company executive chairman Mike Quigley says the venture will design and deliver its own specialist training courses with partners around the country.

The Rudd Government has opened the door to Opposition amendments to its National Broadband Network legislation as both sides consider the headaches associated with a looming Senate stand-off.

Australians’ fleeting love affair with DSL broadband is on the wane; DSL's share of the broadband market fell dramatically in the first half of the year, even as mobile broadband subscriber numbers boomed. The following is the text of a letter sent by the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator the Hon Kim Carr, to Enhanced Project By-law Scheme and Tariff Concession System stakeholders