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Network integrator, Nextgen, has enlisted the help of its sister company, Visionstream, to assist with the National Broadband Network Regional Blackspots Program rollout.

Telstra’s (ASX:TLS) profits for the six months ending December 31, 2009, fell from $1.92 billion a year ago to $1.85bn.

The NBNco expects to start work on mainland test sites for the National Broadband Network (NBN) early in the second-half of 2010, according to its chief.

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Work on the Government’s $250 million Regional Backbone Blackspots program is set to commence in Mt Isa on February 17.

Senator Scott Ludlam represents the Australian Greens on Communications and technology issues. He spoke with ARN about his potential support for a changed ISP filter and the need to use locals and not increased numbers of migrants to fix the looming IT worker shortage.

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The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) has put a $30 million price tag on the first failed NBN tender process, blaming the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Minister Stephen Conroy and the global financial crisis.

Crossbench senators are demanding the government table documents relating to a failed tender process for the abandoned $4.7 billion fibre-to-the-node network project.

Unified communications vendor, Polycom, will launch its first comprehensive partner program in Australia on July 1.

Tandberg is ready for the $43 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) and is eager to collaborate with the NBNco.

ICT jobs have rebounded and Australia is nearing a skills shortage, according to the latest Candle ICT skills survey.

Television towers should be a foundation of the National Broadband Network (NBN), according to tower operator, Broadcast Australia.

The Government has been forced to defend itself as a wall of opposition emerges from major financial firms against planned changes to Australia’s research and development tax concessions.

Employer confidence within the ICT industry is at a record high, according to recruitment firm, Hudson.

Consumers and businesses connecting to the forthcoming National Broadband Network (NBN) should experience minimum disruption in terms of in-house equipment, an industry expert has claimed.

The company responsible for the National Broadband Network (NBN) rollout is calling on satellite network operators and equipment providers capable of supporting satellite services to provide capability statements.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has kicked off a public inquiry into Telstra’s retail price control arrangements.

The Communications Alliance has released a draft handbook outlining guidelines and practices for potential stakeholders around the National Broadband Network (NBN).

The company formed to rollout the National Broadband Network (NBN) will release a shortlist of FTTP-related equipment and service providers.

China-based networking vendor, Huawei Australia, has donated equipment and thousands of dollars as part of collaborative efforts with the University of Melbourne’s Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society (IBES).

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) and IDC have rejected any notion of accelerated wireless broadband adoption hurting the National Broadband Network.

The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, has talked up the Federal Government’s ICT projects and its proposed separation of Telstra in a speech at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

The organisation created to oversee the rollout of a National Broadband Network has brought on two more directors.

It began as a $4.5 billion dollar election promise in 2007. The then shadow broadband minister, Stephen Conroy, broadcast plans for an open-access fibre broadband network to liberate parts of Australia which were deemed ‘non-commercial’ by telco providers. While it lacked the scope of the Liberal’s [[artnid:210894|now defunct OPEL WiMAX project|new]], which touched on regional blackspots, it was lauded by the telecommunications industry.

NBNco has released a consultation paper detailing a conceptual wholesale framework for the predominantly fibre National Broadband Network (NBN).

Negotiations between the Telstra, NBNco and the Government around structural separation and the telco’s potential involvement in the National Broadband Network (NBN) have progressed, the parties claim.

The Government’s Internet filtering proposal failed to address clean-feed content in high-speed environments like the National Broadband Network (NBN) and is ultimately doomed, a technical group claims.