NBN Company executives will present its corporate plan and business model to a meeting of its board of directors for approval on Friday, chief executive Mike Quigley has told a Senate committee, but it is still not clear when or how much of those documents will be made public.

Coalition calls for the Productivity Commission to conduct a full cost-benefit analysis of the National Broadband Network and for the project to be overseen by a parliamentary committee was designed simply to delay the roll-out of the high-speed fibre network, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said.

Ramping up pressure on Government over the cost of the National Broadband Network, the Coalition will introduce a Private Members Bill calling for a 10-year cost-benefit analysis of the project.

Broadband service provider Internode has launched a number portability service that lets customers of its Naked ADSL2+ product retain their existing analogue telephone number.

Australia risked losing jobs to offshore markets if it failed to invest in the National Broadband Network as a critical piece of economic infrastructure, Julia Gillard has told Parliament.

Freshly-minted Parliamentary Secretary Kate Lundy was awarded the top prize at the World eGovernment Forum in Paris overnight, with an international panel voting her the planet's most influential and effective eDemocracy and Gov 2.0 leader.

There is to be a passing of the torch at Australia's peak ICT research agency NICTA, with long serving chief executive David Skellern to retire early next year.

Security checks and approvals for technology contractors and government workers in sensitive federal government areas have been moved to a new Australian Government Security Vetting Agency (AGSVA), promising faster processing times and reduced cost to taxpayers.

The Gillard Government will introduce crucial telecommunications reform legislation to the Parliament during the two-week sitting period at the end of the month, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has told the Bloomberg news service.

The top-level management changes at micro-blogging phenomena Twitter may mark the end of the beginning for the company. Certainly analysts agree it's the moment where the company is showing how serious it is about making money.