The NBN's uncertain future notwithstanding, Tasmania's premier, David Bartlett has launched an innovation strategy spanning five sectors of the state's economy but with a strong focus on the NBN and the state's digital economy.

The Tasmanian Government has provided $1m to help a coalition of Tasmanian business organisations promote the NBN and its applications to Tasmanian businesses.

TiVo distributor, Hybrid Television Services has appointed the Institute for a Broadband Enabled Society (IBES) at the University of Melbourne as the research unit for its Hybrid SmartStreet Project that aims to facilitate greater awareness and understanding of the potential benefits of the NBN.

The Tasmanian Government has teamed up with TiVo's Australian distributor, Hybrid Television Services, to provide TiVos to existing FTTH customer on the TasCOLT network in order to research future NBN applications.

Tasmanian Greens leader, Nick McKim, is, according to ABC News "predicting a drip-feed of announcements over the Tasmanian roll-out of the National Broadband Network, to maximise the State Government's re-election chances," but there's plenty to suggest this has been going on for some time.

The Tasmanian Government wants to maximise the chances of local companies getting work during the construction phase of the National Broadband Network roll-out, launching a web portal that highlights NBN sub-contractor opportunities.

Abigroup Contractors and Tasmanian horizontal drilling specialist Apache Services (Tasmania) have formed a joint venture to install optical fibre cable in Tasmania.

The chair of the Tasmanian NBN Co, (and board member of the national NBN Co) Doug Campbell has revealed that NBN Co and Telstra are in negotiations "at the highest level' for Telstra to become a customer of the NBN and a significant shareholder in NBN Co.

Communications minister Stephen Conroy has named the final three directors to the board of the Tasmania NBN Company: senior Tasmanian public servant Mark Kelleher, Hobart academic Dr Daniel Norton and senior business executive Sean Woellner.

Claims that the Tasmanian NBN is progressing according to the schedule promised in April don't stack up.