News

• Turnbull: Selling off NBN will be harder than privatisation of Telstra

  By Spandas Lui | 30 March, 2011 13:12

  The Federal Government is determined to drag out the process of privatising the NBN, according to Shadow Communications Minister.

• Abbott is a Luddite, says Conroy

  By Renai LeMay | 10 August, 2010 17:23

  Communications Minister Stephen Conroy this afternoon opened fire on Tony Abbott, labelling him a “luddite” for not having appearing to have anything to do with his party’s technology policies, on a day in which the Canberra press gallery also criticised the Opposition Leader on the issue.

• Coalition: Australians will get 12Mbps or more if they win

  By David Ramli in Canberra | 10 August, 2010 12:30

  The Coalition reveals $6 billion rival broadband policy to Labor’s National Broadband Network project. The central planks are a competitive backhaul network, regional and metropolitan wireless networks and an ADSL enrichment program that will target telephone exchanges without ADSL2+ broadband.

• NBN fibre reach extended to 93 per cent

  By Renai LeMay | 26 July, 2010 11:57

  The Federal Government will extend its planned fibre roll-out under the National Broadband Network from an initial 90 per cent of Australian premises to 93 per cent – covering an additional 1.6 million extra premises.

• NBN: The year that was

  By Spandas Lui | 23 December, 2009 12:19

  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 now defunct OPEL WiMAX project, which touched on regional blackspots, it was lauded by the telecommunications industry.