News

• Government sets new penalties for telco consumer safeguard breaches

  By Hafizah Osman | 22 February, 2012 15:53

  Includes USO payphone performance benchmark and retail CSG performance benchmark

• Strong domestic Cloud computing sector essential for Australian Digital Economy: Conroy

  By Hafizah Osman | 15 February, 2012 16:01

  Senator expects that the roll-out of the NBN to change broadband quality

• Conroy: Turnbull wants to lock Australia into a 13Mbps NBN world

  By Spandas Lui | 03 August, 2011 16:43

  If Australia adopted New Zealand’s National Broadband Network (NBN) model, the average download speed delivered to Australian households would be a meagre 13Mbps, according to Communications Minister, Senator Stephen Conroy.

• Update: NBN Co names 14 mainland sites

  By David Ramli | 09 July, 2010 09:00

  The Government-funded company responsible for the rollout of the National Broadband Network, NBN Co, has announced 14 new sites in mainland Australia that will get fibre to the premises.

• Wikileaks to Conroy: we will go after you

  By Computerworld Staff | 20 March, 2009 18:34

  Wikileaks says it will go legal to protect its source

• Government flags closer relationship with IT industry over e-security

  By Trevor Clarke | 05 January, 2009 14:59

  Australian Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, and Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Stephen Conroy, have flagged closer relationships with the IT industry and ISPs as necessary to improving the nation’s e-security.

• Conroy scolds Telstra for failing NBN

  By Darren Pauli | 15 December, 2008 16:30

  Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has admonished Telstra for failing to bid for the National Broadband Network (NBN), and said its executives will now have to face up to shareholders.

• NBN: Government must now enforce open network principles

  By Andrew Hendry | 27 November, 2008 14:14

  A telecommunications analyst has claimed the burning question for Australia’s ISP industry is not who builds the National Broadband Network, but whether the government defines and enforces a truly open access network model.

• No opt-out of filtered Internet

  By Darren Pauli | 13 October, 2008 16:10

  Australians will be unable to opt-out of the government's pending Internet content filtering scheme, and will instead be placed on a watered-down blacklist, experts say.