The NBN Company is conducting an analysis of the local jobs market to identify where skills gaps exist in Australia and is talking to local training institutions about how best to find the 15,000 to 25,000 workers it will need to build the National Broadband Network.

There’s a transformation of Australia’s vertical markets underway this year in the wake of the GFC, with IDC reporting that the market is currently being driven by a growing impact of the cloud services model, an explosion of mobile devices and applications and the continuing rollout of higher-speed networks.

Belden has racked up a string of big-name wins, with several major building developments choosing the company's audio-visual and data cabling.

Telstra has moved to significantly reduce its costs of leasing major CBD buildings in Melbourne and Sydney with the announcement it has just completed the largest lease agreement ever in the Australian commercial office market.