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News and features tagged with 'broadband-australia'
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 8 September 2008
Read the latest news reports about the National Broadband Network (NBN) and what Telstra is doing to bring high-speed broadband to Australia. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 27 June 2008
The request for proposals (RFP) document prohibits bidders for the National Broadband Network tender from making public statements about the RFP and the... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 27 June 2008
nowwearetalking will keep you posted on the latest news about high-speed broadband. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 15 May 2008
Learn more about the plans and initiatives the Government have proposed to bring high-speed broadband to Australia since 2002. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 15 May 2008
Call it fibre to the node, fibre to the home, fibre to the curb – more optical fibre is being used to upgrade networks around the world for 21st century... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 15 May 2008
nowwearetalking provides a comprehensive review of the major developments that have occurred to bring high-speed broadband to Australia. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 15 May 2008
Australia’s future prosperity depends upon upgrading our networks for the high-speed broadband Gigabit Age. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 15 May 2008
The Government has called for proposals from companies to construct a National Broadband Network, making data speeds of at least 12Mbps available to 98... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 15 May 2008
Upgrading the nation's networks will cost many billions of dollars and Australia can’t afford to get it wrong. Only Telstra has the proven capability to... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 9 May 2008
The race to build a National Broadband Network (NBN) is formally underway, with Telstra this morning becoming the first company to lodge a $5 million bidder's... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 11 April 2008
The Government today called for proposals from companies to construct a National Broadband Network making data speeds of at least 12Mbps available to 98... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 11 April 2008
The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator the Hon Stephen Conroy, today announced the release of the Request for Proposals... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 25 March 2008
A UK expert in network access regulation, Professor Martin Cave, said Australian consumers would be better off if the ACCC fostered true infrastructure... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 11 March 2008
FTTN is now a step closer with Senator Stephen Conroy, announcing a Panel of Experts to assess proposals to build a National Broadband Network. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 7 March 2008
Apple co-founder Steve "the Woz" Wozniak wowed more than 150 delegates at the Broadband and Beyond conference held in Sydney. Watch nowearetalking's TV... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 6 March 2008
Australians lost an opportunity to enjoy more broadband investment when the High Court today upheld a regulatory regime that rewards Telstra's competitors... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 6 March 2008
Is Elders going to pull the pin on OPEL - its much vaunted joint venture with Singtel-Optus? Media reports suggest Elders is, indeed, "considering its... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 27 February 2008
Telstra announced today that its high speed broadband (ADSL 2+) rollout was ahead of schedule. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 8 January 2008
So, just how fast is high-speed broadband? Our "need for speed" video illustrates the relative network speeds at which different technologies would transmit... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 18 December 2007
Telstra has moved to force SingTel Optus to invest in its lazy and under-utilised cable network by seeking an exemption from providing access to Telstra’s... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 11 December 2007
In a wide-ranging interview on CNBC Asia, Telstra's Public Policy & Communications GMD, Dr Phil Burgess said Telstra was having positive discussions... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 14 November 2007
In June 2007 the Federal Government announced it would give $958 million to OPEL Networks, a joint venture between Singtel Optus and Elders, More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 19 October 2007
Week one of the election campaign is drawing to a close with the two major parties continuing to debate who has the better broadband plan for Australia.
The... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 12 October 2007
The Minister for Communications has written a letter to Telstra CEO, Sol Trujillo - received today - clarifying that there will be no Government funding... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 11 October 2007
Stories carried in national newspapers around the country today are roundly critical of recent Government policy flip flops More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 10 October 2007
Telstra shareholders will again be confused about yet another government policy flip-flop. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 9 October 2007
In an opinion piece in today's The Age, Dr Phil Burgess spells out how wavering and indecisiveness at the highest level has stymied broadband investment... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 1 October 2007
In an opinion piece in The Sunday Age Dr Phil Burgess spoke out on the need for public debate, stating this is how democracy works. He stimulates public... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 28 September 2007
New research from Europe confirms that the type of pricing policy being pursued by the ACCC is robbing Australians of investment in new competitive broadband... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 18 September 2007
Believe it or not, Telstra’s very own ADSL-enabled exchanges in Bega (NSW), Tumut (NSW) and Ulverstone (TAS) have received a letter from the Communications... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 14 September 2007
Telstra has the money, the talent, the technology and the plan to further develop Australia’s telecommunications future, ‘Dr Phil’ Burgess,... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 14 September 2007
Telstra has called on the Minister for Communications, Senator Helen Coonan, to cease and desist distributing misleading and incorrect information, and... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 4 September 2007
Telstra has released a second submission asking the ACCC to roll-back regulatory controls where there is demonstrable infrastructure-based competition. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 17 August 2007
Leith Campbell, principal consultant in Australia for British telecommunications analyst firm Ovum, says the political will to invest in broadband isn’t... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 10 August 2007
The Government released its draft Guidelines and timetable for the FTTN Expert Taskforce, which delays any hope for a decision for at least another eight... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 1 August 2007
Telstra CEO, Sol Trujillo, yesterday addressed 650 members of the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) on Australia's technology future. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 1 August 2007
Jennifer Hewett takes you through the chronology of events which has led to the establishment of yet another committee of technical experts and the delay... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 30 July 2007
Telstra Chairman, Donald McGauchie AO, has given a hard-hitting interview to The Weekend Australian. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 27 July 2007
The Age have played host to an interesting and increasingly heated debate about Fibre to the Node (FTTN) high-speed broadband. In the process, Primus CEO... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 26 July 2007
Broadband was the hot topic in a survey of Queensland businesses that shows the majority are looking for higher broadband speeds in the near future. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 23 July 2007
More questions are being asked about the Federal Government's relationship with Singapore following its decision to award the Singapore Government owned... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 18 July 2007
Imagine a billion dollars of tax payers' money going to Singapore Airlines to compete with Qantas? More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 10 July 2007
Telstra has applied for the removal of regulation from key wholesale services in metropolitan and major regional areas where competitive markets are flourishing. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 5 July 2007
n an article recently published in The Age, and repeated in today's Livewire edition, industry commentator John Hampshire says shut outs, degraded service... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 5 July 2007
The Government has launched an official, taxpayer funded website posing as a service "to help consumers access broadband, the options available to them... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 5 July 2007
Grahame Lynch says the past ten years of telecom competition has been broadly successful, but warns that a very close and open-eyed watch needs to be kept... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 28 June 2007
Telstra has come out in support of the Federal Government's review of the Universal Services Obligation More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 28 June 2007
Federal Communications Minister Senator Helen Coonan yesterday finally announced a review of the Universal Service Obligation (USO). More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 28 June 2007
A lack of investment in telecommunications is the failure of competition regulation, according to members of a leading Australian think tank. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 5 June 2007
The leader of Australia's peak industry group has urged the Federal Government to hurry up and make a decision that will allow construction of a high-speed... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 5 June 2007
When Telstra’s Phil Burgess complains that the G9 proposal would effectively give Singapore carte blanche control over Australia’s telecom industry he’s... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 5 June 2007
Kevin Morgan says the SingTel G9 proposal supported by the ACCC is fatally flawed. In the face of the ACCC's apparent willingness to give serious consideration... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 4 June 2007
Australian internet users are gobbling up higher internet plans, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 1 June 2007
The G9 scheme suffers from financial, legal, policy and engineering flaws, you might expect it to receive less serious attention. Yet some decision-makers... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 1 June 2007
I emigrated to Australia just over two years ago from a so called 3rd world country South Africa, and will soon become a proud Australian citizen.... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 30 May 2007
As the ACCC continues to block Telstra investing in a new broadband network, Liberal and National Party backbenchers have warned the Prime Minister the... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 30 May 2007
Residents of Sydney's outer southern suburbs have launched an online petition to campaign for better broadband.
The Campbelltown and Macarthur region... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 25 May 2007
You’ve witnessed their war of words in our discussion forums now watch Australia’s leading telecom public policy advocates go head to head in person. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 25 May 2007
Union leader Len Cooper says ACCC's move to break up Telstra's network and hand it over the SingTel G9 consortium would destroy a national asset. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 18 May 2007
Today the 10,000th person signed on to Telstra Active Supporters, helping to bring high-speed broadband to Australia that much closer. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 16 May 2007
Alan Jones says the ACCC is working against the consumer interest. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 11 May 2007
A new international report shows Australia is going backwards in its international competitiveness because of a lack of investment in broadband infrastructure. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 4 May 2007
Australia is in danger of falling behind the world in the rollout of high speed broadband infrastructure More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 18 April 2007
According to the Macquarie Dictionary, to mislead means “to lead astray, to cause to go wrong, in conduct or belief.” The T4 accuse Telstra... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 18 April 2007
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission was recently found to have acted illegally in the way it has issued a Competition Notice alleging infringements... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 11 April 2007
Telstra's competitors have launched another full on attack on Telstra and this website. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 11 April 2007
The ability to send more data faster is great for business. This will have a ripple effect in the national economy and it will also reduce Australia's... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 29 March 2007
There are few bargains in life these days but even the most battle-hardened Telstra-loathing access seeker would have to agree - $3.20 per month to use... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 29 March 2007
Alan Moran says broadband investment is best left to private companies. As Paul Keating once pointed out, when earlier governments picked winner industries,... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 29 March 2007
Alan Moran says businesses and consumers are paying the price for regulations out of control. Businesses constantly experience frustrations with government... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 29 March 2007
Hopes that Telstra might co-operate with the G9 FTTN network proposal evaporated yesterday with the carrier branding the plan as worthy of the “Isaac Asimov... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 28 March 2007
Communications Minister Helen Coonan has promised to trump Labor's broadband plan saying she'll negotiate a better deal for consumers without raiding the... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 19 March 2007
Korea’s largest internet provider KT will invest more than $US1 billion to provide fibre to every home in South Korea by 2010. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 16 March 2007
Media boss James Packer has urged the Federal Government to back Telstra's plan to provide high-speed broadband for Australia. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 13 March 2007
A new study has shown how much Australia stands to lose from turning its back on super fast broadband. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 13 March 2007
Italy is the latest country to secure its broadband future with fibre. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 8 February 2007
Optus wants to ship the money Australians earned from the T3 sale back to its Singapore owners. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 30 January 2007
Leading news limited commentator Robert Gottliebsen writes: At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, some of the world’s largest technology companies... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 29 January 2007
Australia is lagging behind the rest of the world in investing in next-generation fibre broadband networks, according to yet another expert report. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 8 January 2007
Chris Berg explains why our politicians grand plans for broadband are doomed to fail because the policy settings are wrong. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 8 January 2007
Communications Minister Helen Coonan yesterday delivered her long-promised broadband development blueprint, outlining future measures including new assessment... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 22 December 2006
Mark Christensen says the ACCC needs to wake up to itself and recognise the need for Telstra to invest. In 2001, the free marketeers at the Productivity... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 29 November 2006
CEO Sol Trujillo has outlined his vision for how Telstra's transformation can play a key part in building Australia's future economic growth. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 29 November 2006
Telstra's Chairman Donald McGauchie speaks out on Telstra's campaign for fairer regulations More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 29 November 2006
Australia's Shadow Communications Minister Stephen Conroy is a new father and I’m sure that’s not the only major life change he would welcome... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 28 November 2006
Australia's most powerful media heavyweights have reignited the broadband debate, calling on the Federal Government to break the regulatory roadblock preventing... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 23 November 2006
Video websites are sucking up bandwidth and telcos face massive challenges ensuring consumers can continue to get reliable service. More
Posted by Chris Berg, Institute of Public Affairs, 27 October 2006
State governments are stepping up to promote broadband at the same time as the Federal Government plans to hand out a billion dollars worth of investment... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 25 October 2006
Grahame Lynch* explains why Telstra can't really afford to upgrade ADSL, and is investing more in 3G mobiles. One of the things I’ve found most intriguing... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 25 October 2006
Brussels this week was the scene of a very unusual gathering of the elite movers and shakers in the EU telecom world. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 25 October 2006
The current regulatory model was designed to force the sharing of networks that have been built. In trying to apply this to those that have not been built... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 25 October 2006
That is, given Telstra’s retail prices must be averaged across regions, does the ACCC support averaging of wholesale network prices or not? More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 25 October 2006
Alan Moran examines the reasons why the ACCC needs to stop giving Telstra's investments away to competitors. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 25 October 2006
Our industry is no stranger to change. If policy and regulation cannot keep up we shall lag behind other countries and forfeit some of the benefits that... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 25 October 2006
Far from attacking Optus over the report commissioned by the so called `competitive carriers' we really should be thanking them. There aren't too many... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 25 October 2006
The ACCC’s latest decision prices ULL in a manner which, in my view, sends incorrect price signals and actually encourages DSLAM overbuild by Telstra’s... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 25 October 2006
The surprising thing about recent pronouncements and decisions by ACCC Chairman Graeme’s Samuel is, well, that there have been absolutely no surprises.... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 25 October 2006
For over six months, Telstra’s new management team has been fighting pricing regulation with vigor previously unseen in Australian corporate life. As I... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 25 October 2006
The reaction to Telstra’s announcement this week that it intends to review and possibly withdraw some payphones from service in areas where there is no... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 25 October 2006
The Federal Government's universal service obligation is designed to ensure all Australians have access to standard telephone services and payphones. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 25 October 2006
The ACCC’s rejection of Telstra’s ULL undertaking was expected and is both wrong and short-sighted. Only clearer government direction can make amends.... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 25 October 2006
Listening to the current debate in Australia, you might be led to believe that Telstra is a lone voice crying in the wilderness, highlighting the impact... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 25 October 2006
Telstra's announcement that it is abandoning its plans for a fibre to the node (FTTN) network comes as no surprise. Both Telstra and the Australian Competition... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 25 October 2006
Communications Minister Helen Coonan was making all the right noises in her speech to the recent Australian Financial Review’s National Infrastructure... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 25 October 2006
Instead of acknowledging an increasingly competitive market, the ACCC has used a review of local carriage services as an opportunity to extend its control... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 9 October 2006
The Federal Government has issued its prospectus for T3, with potential investors warned regulation is the most serious threat they will face. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 21 September 2006
In recent weeks, the ACCC has said it will reject not one but two of Telstra’s proposed wholesale prices.
First up, Telstra proposed to reduce... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 18 September 2006
The Government has imposed further regulation on Telstra, and Telstra alone. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 15 September 2006
Seems we’re not the only ones to cop a regulatory high tackle. Foxtel recently announced the Footy Channel will shut up shop at the end of the season,... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 7 September 2006
New evidence show's Australia's 'stepping stone' telco policy can't deliver and is doing more harm than good. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 9 August 2006
Talks between Telstra and the ACCC to build a high speed new 'Fibre to the Node' (FTTN) network have ended after reaching an impasse over the level of... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 2 August 2006
The ACCC has announced even more regulations that will see Telstra shareholders subsidise competitors for three more years. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 26 July 2006
Some of Telstra's critics still talk of a telephony monopoly in Australia. In an address to the Central Victorian Business Network in Bendigo, Telstra's... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 6 July 2006
Communications Minister Helen Coonan has made international headlines by announcing she'll consider regulating the internet in response to the furore over... More
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