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When I found out that Schloss Merkel was located in the NBN trial site in Brunswick, Victoria, it wasn’t a hard decision to sign up.
An alternative telco plan
Peter Martin reports on the Coalition’s proposed amendments to the NBN legislation currently before the parliament. It’s a fairly transparent attempt to kill the financial viability of the NBN by effectively forcing the copper network to keep operating. The amendments [...]
Broadband: our future in a ditch
The recent Background Briefing program on broadband started with this image: Di Martin: But as Phil Dobbie discovered for himself the other day, the poor old copper wires, laid more than a century ago, are on their last legs. Phil [...]
Broadband policy
Today the Coalition has announced its broadband policy. So far I can’t find anything on the Liberal Party’s ‘Real action’ site. I heard on NewsRadio that Conroy and Tony Smith are going to debate the issue at the National press [...]
The Telstra-NBNco deal
Trying to get one’s head around the detail of the deal between Telstra and the National Broadband Network company – the vehicle set up by the government to build the NBN – has been a mind-bending exercise. Certainly, it’s virtually [...]
Is the existing copper network at its speed limit?
In this lengthy discussion of the “National Broadband Network”, it was generally assumed that the existing copper network had essentially reached its speed limit, and that it could never provide the kind of internet performance that Australians will want in [...]
The structural separation we've always wanted?
The government’s announced that it’s given up on the original form of its national broadband network scheme, and is now proposing “a new public/private company to build a national network”. They’ve also taken a significant step up in the proposed [...]
The National Broadband Network, Telstra and "market forces"
Telstra has been playing a high-risk strategy over tendering for the National Broadband Network, submitting a deliberate non-compliant tender which the government has now confirmed excludes it from the process. The brinkmansip game appears to have failed at the first [...]
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