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News and features tagged with 'fttn'

What the media are saying about FTTN

Read the latest news reports about the National Broadband Network (NBN) and what Telstra is doing to bring high-speed broadband to Australia. More

Telstra stands ready to build a world-class, open access NBN

Telstra today welcomed Minister Conroy’s announcement of the closing date for proposals to build a National Broadband Network (NBN). Telstra’s new GMD,... More

Delays are costing the nation: Dr Phil

In an interview with ABC radio on Thursday 7 August, Dr Phil Burgess, Telstra's GMD Public Policy & Communications, warned that continued delay on rolling... More

Telstra's Dr Tony Warren responds to Business Spectator

It is disappointing that a leading business commentator would suggest that Australia does not need a national high-speed broadband network said Telstra's... More

NBN: Critical to a low carbon future

The delivery of a high-speed National Broadband Network (NBN) is a vital requirement in reducing carbon emissions, increasing productivity and safeguarding... More

Telstra's submission's to NBN

Australia is ready for the National Broadband Network. The National Broadband Network needs a tailor-made regulatory framework. Read Telstra’s submission... More

FTTN: Australia’s high-speed broadband future

The request for proposals (RFP) document prohibits bidders for the National Broadband Network tender from making public statements about the RFP and the... More

FTTN: What's new on nowwearetalking

nowwearetalking will keep you posted on the latest news about high-speed broadband. More

Regulatory change needed if Australia is to build NBN

Telstra today lodged its submissions to the Government's National Broadband Network (NBN) regulatory review, outlining the policy changes that would be... More

New low in stopping high-speed broadband

A bogus report released today by Telstra's competitor's T4, Optus, Terria and the Competitive Carriers' Coalition claims consumers would pay 15 per cent... More

Tactics of ‘dishonesty, distortion, distraction, and delay’

Telstra Wholesale GMD Kate McKenzie spoke on Radio National this morning on FTTN and the current competitor tactics of dishonesty, distortion, distraction,... More

FTTN: Telstra getting on with the job

Telstra took a decisive step towards building a National Broadband Network (NBN) by paying the Federal Government a $5 million dollar bond and handing... More

Breadcrumbs and flag-flying

nowwearetalking's Chief Editor Jeremy Mitchell rejects the notion of Telstra playing a Singapore scare campaign when it comes to Optus, and argues that... More

The broadband quickstep

Learn more about the plans and initiatives the Government have proposed to bring high-speed broadband to Australia since 2002. More

FTTN: What is happening around the world?

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

FTTN chronology in Australia

nowwearetalking provides a comprehensive review of the major developments that have occurred to bring high-speed broadband to Australia. More

Is Australia ready for the Gigabit Age?

Australia’s future prosperity depends upon upgrading our networks for the high-speed broadband Gigabit Age. More

The National Broadband Network (NBN)

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

Telstra and National Broadband Network

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

Telstra lodges NBN bidder's bond & network information

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

CommsDay Summit 2008

Find out more about the recent CommsDay Summit "Get ready for the Gigabit Age" - presented by Communications Day, a leading source of telecom news, opinion... More

Get ready for the Gigabit Age

Australia must think very carefully about its policy and investment settings as it prepares for the rapidly approaching Gigabit Future, Telstra CEO, Sol... More

Broadband procrastinators reach for the handbrake

Now that rubber is hitting the road on next generation broadband, who among the potential FTTN bidders is putting their foot on the accelerator, and who... More

Time to put up or shut up on FTTN

Telstra wants the Government to impose an application fee and bonds on potential bidders for the FTTN tender. Nowwearetalking editor Jeremy Mitchell interviews... More

FTTN a step closer

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

Wheels starting to fall off the G9 Trojan horse

3 September 2007 By Jeremy MitchellPolitical Editor iiNet’s Managing Director, Michael Malone has let the cat out of the G9 bag by admitting that... More

Telstra CEO on creating the future

Telstra CEO, Sol Trujillo, yesterday addressed 650 members of the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) on Australia's technology future. More

Telstra the only choice for fibre broadband network

Telecom industry expert, Kevin Morgan, writes in The Age that Telstra is the only choice to develop a new fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) high-speed broadband... More

10 years of fool’s gold competition

nowwearetalking's Political editor Jeremy Mitchell believes Australia hasn’t had very good telecommunications policy management over the past ten years.... More

Want to make a bet Graeme?

Few people were surprised when talks over the proposed Fibre to the node (FTTN) network reached an impasse given the complex issues involved. More

Telstra welcomes break in regulatory log-jam

After nearly two years of Telstra having a high-speed broadband plan on the table, and calling for the Government to take a lead on the matter rather than... More

Phil Burgess reiterates Telstra's readiness

Dr Phil Burgess has underlined Telstra's willingness to submit its FTTN (fibre-to-the-node) broadband plan to the Government's proposed independent review... More

Game over G9, bring on Telstra's plan

Dr Phil Burgess, has spoken to CNBC TV about Telstra's initial response to the G9 FTTN scheme submitted to the ACCC late Wednesday afternoon. More

Australia continues to lag behind in Broadband

Despite a lift in ranking since June 2006 – from 17th to 16th – the latest OECD figures show Australia still lagging major trading partners such as United... More

Sol hopeful on fibre network

Telstra's CEO Sol Trujillo says he hopes the government will be open to talks about building a fibre-optic network. More

FTTN failure demonstrates need for change

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

Surely it's a joke?

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

Piggyback, or really compete?

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

The hottest show in town

Tickets are being snapped up to the Labor Party's annual business forum on September 18th, with the star attraction Telstra's own Phil Burgess. More

FTTN network upgrade off

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

SingTel Optus buries 'great idea'

Singapore-owned company called a media conference to announce its latest plan to try and stop Telstra upgrading its networks so Australians could enjoy... More

Graeme Samuel's need for speed

Our very own competition tsar Graeme Samuel may well go down in history as the man who changed the definition of the term "internet superhighway". More

 

Blog entries tagged with 'fttn'

Cargo cult

Blogger Hugh Bradlow returns from a well deserved holiday and sets out to rectify certain technical claims made recently by Alan Kohler in his article... More

Terria's Egan the right man for the job

Blogger Rod Bruem says the Singapore Telecom board showed some considerable local knowledge when it appointed Michael Egan as the head of the "Terria... More

TERRiA the broadband dog in the manger

Blogger Rhonda Griffin says the consortium TERRiA (formally-known-as-G9) is simply a spoiler. Clearly it doesn’t want to build the network, it just doesn’t... More

Helen Coonan still doesn’t get IT

It didn't surprise blogger Rhonda Griffin to read Helen Coonan say in an interview with CommsDay this week that she didn't think there was a need for a... More

NZ and Britain's broadband disgrace

Blogger Rod Bruem says it is easy to see why Telstra's competitors would like to see the regulators focus more on the structural seperation of Telstra... More

Sub-loop unbundling

Hugh Bradlow says the G9's broadband scheme is lacking in technical detail, and moreover it's "sub-loop unbundling" proposal is fraught with complications. More

The need for speed: Part 4

Part four of Hugh's insight into the need for speed. More

 

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