News Source: The Age
| 7 months ago
Kevin Rudd is stepping into the breach to save the Australian economy for the fifth time. Already we've had two fiscal stimuli of $10 billion and $42 billion, a guarantee of $30 billion to bankroll the shopping centres and the climate change program...
News Source: The Age
| 7 months ago
Retro-fitting media companies to digital realities has limited success. THE American prison system costs $US60 billion a year to run...It is about double the cost of establishing a national broadband network (NBN) in Australia, a system that will...
News Source: Uinta County News
| 7 months ago
Broadband cost could be halved: analyst Telstra Corp's establishment of an internal committee to liaise with the federal government on its broadband project illustrates the private sector's willingness to be involved in the plan, an industry expert...
News Source: The Daily Telegraph
| 7 months ago
Australians have given the Rudd Government's $43 billion national broadband plan the thumbs up, a survey released today shows. Essential Research's weekly survey found 54 per cent of Australians approve of the public-private partnership to build a...
News Source: The Daily Telegraph (Australia)
| 7 months ago
In a memo sent to staff on the day of the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's broadband announcement last week, Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo said the company needed continuity in its negotiations with the government on the plan. Mr Trujillo will...
News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 7 months ago
Last week Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced the Government would form its own public/private company to build and run the network, after scrapping its contentious tender process. Mr Rudd says the fibre-to-the-home network will provide 90 per cent...