The communications sector's peak user interest lobby has joined the chorus of industry voices objecting to the NBN Company's points of interconnect proposals, saying it risks reducing infrastructure competition into the future.

NBN Company chief financial officer Jean-Pascal Beaufret has been appointed to the board of NBN Tasmania as the operational management of the two companies become more closely aligned.

The Tasmanian Government continued to work closely with the Commonwealth on the National Broadband Network project, and the roll-out timetable would be unaffected by the changed ownership plans for the local NBN company, Premier David Bartlett has told iTWire.

The Federal Government's failure to consumate its planned NBN Tasmania joint-venture with the Tasmania Government and the state-owned utility Aurora Energy demonstrated the state's National Broadband Network roll-out was a shambles, Liberal Senator Guy Barnett says.

The Federal Government has killed off its NBN Tasmania joint-venture plan, saying the Commonwealth would proceed with the state's National Broadband Network roll-out alone.

The NBN Company today confirmed it had delivered its much-anticipated corporate plan to the Federal Government, detailing how it will build the $43 billion National Broadband Network, and the prices it will charge for its use.

Crucial decisions about the National Broadband Network's engineering design and points of interconnect topology that will have a direct impact on service pricing are expected by the end of the month.

An additional pool of $80 million in venture capital has been created through the Innovation Investment Fund, with information technology and new media companies likely beneficiaries.

You really have to wonder at what you would need to do in this country to attract a penalty - let alone conviction - for breaching the privacy of others. Because the unauthorised and systematic collection of the personal information of millions of Australians citizens - including emails, bank account details and passwords - apparently isn't enough.

The Australian Privacy Foundation is still seeking confirmation that the personal information of local citizens collected by Google Australia through its StreetView cars is being stored in Australia.