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Posted by David Quilty, GMD Public Policy & Communications, 5 September 2008
When Kevin Rudd, as Opposition Leader, committed to a National Broadband Network last year, he rightly described broadband as “a great enabling technology”, driving business productivity, scientific discovery and Labor’s education revolution. Australians want and deserve a world-class national broadband network using the latest fibre-optic technology. The key question is: Who can be trusted to build and operate this vital national infrastructure?
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Posted by Professor Martin Cave, 4 September 2008
Professor Martin Cave says the plan for NBN regulation should take into account existing competitive infrastructure, specifically the Optus-owned HFC network - which passes more than two million homes in Australia. He says the fact that Optus can get cheap access to Telstra's networks is discouraging Optus from investing in the HFC and upgrading it to a next generation network in competition to the NBN.
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Posted by Dr Mark Jamison - University of Florida, 2 September 2008
Dr Mark Jamison says it is 'curious' to observe the passionate debate over the various forms of structural separation because the supporters of separation keep looking to Europe and the UK at fledging separation models, or models just under consideration, instead of looking to the US where these ideas have been fully tested… and have been found wanting.
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Posted by Andrew Maiden, Director Media Communications, 22 August 2008
Australians consume politics like we consume sports: as spectators, and usually from the comfort of the couch. Our aversion to joining the game has led to a reliance on government that is unhealthy, dangerous to our democracy, and costly to the economy.
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