NBN Co chief executive Mike Quigley has hit back at critics of the perceived high prices for premium services of the National Broadband Network, saying it is much cheaper than any equivalent services on the market today.

Broadband minister Stephen Conroy has issued a broadside at four Sydney radio hosts for promoting what he claims is an anti-NBN bias in NSW. Fresh from the Labor Government's disastrous NSW election loss, Senator Conroy responded to a question from the floor at the Cisco Live conference in Melbourne asking whether overcoming negative sentiment in NSW will be problem for the NBN rollout going forward.

Broadband minister Stephen Conroy has issued a broadside at four Sydney radio hosts for promoting what he claims is an anti-NBN bias in NSW. Fresh from the Labor Government's disastrous NSW election loss, Senator Conroy responded to a question from the floor at the Cisco Live conference in Melbourne asking whether overcoming negative sentiment in NSW will be problem for the NBN rollout going forward.

The Federal Government has announced that it will release, at the end of May, a National Digital Economy Strategy, but its promotion of such a major document has been curiously low-key.

A new 426 kilometre Government built fibre-optic cable linking Geraldton to Perth has given the central west coast city of almost 40,000 people access to the same quality of broadband available in Australian capitals. iiNet subsidiary Westnet has launched a new network off the back of the link at an event today attended by Westnet and iiNet CEO Michael Malone and his sometime adversary Broadband Minister Stephen Conroy.

The Gillard Government has started 2011 facing a barrage of criticism from the Opposition over alleged ties between NBN Co CEO Mike Quigley, CFO Jean-Pascal Beaufret and Alcatel, which won an $85 million contract with NBN Co last June.

Two decades after the idea was floated by one of his predecessors, communications minister senator Stephen Conroy, has kicked off a comprehensive review of Australia's communications and media regulation, to take account of convergence between telecommunications and broadcasting.

Transmission services provider Nextgen Networks today celebrated the completion of 3000km of construction in the Australian Government’s Regional Backbone Blackspots Program (RBBP) in an event attended by Communications Minister in Melbourne. According to Nextgen, it has now reached the half-way point of its network construction.

Just days after the Coalition injected fiscal sanity into the NBN debate, Senator Stephen Conroy and PM Julia Gillard have “launched” the NBN in Tasmania and have said that the NBN Co’s Mike Quigley only yesterday notified Senator Conroy that the NBN would have its speeds boosted to 1Gbps, 10 times faster than the previously promised 100Mbps speeds, in what is the most desperate pre-election spin yet.

Internet service providers who implement the Federal Government’s voluntary filter stand to lose Australian broadband customers in droves according to a new survey. In fact, according to the newly released figures, signing up to the filter could be a business shattering choice.