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Government to advise on the $15 billion national broadband network have already raked in more than $4 million in combined fees, and millions more are on the way. Corporate Finance, Gibson Quai-AAS, Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Frontier Economics and the...
Nicola Berkovic and Andrew Colley January 23, 2009 THE federal Government will begin negotiating with bidders to build the $15 billion national broadband network, after receiving advice from its expert panel yesterday. Communications Minister Stephen...
Tags: broadband, communications, optus, Stephen Conroy, NBN, federal government, experts panel, broadband report, National Broadband Network, communications minister
National Broadband Network and the mixed economy: What kind of monopoly? Even now it does not seem so long ago that a genuine ‘mixed’ economic model prevailed across nations the world wide. In the wake of Depression and...
Tags: natural monopoly, public broadcasters, broadband, productivity, Wide Area Wireless, wireless, infrastructure, National Broadband Network, fibre optic cable, Telstra, communications, telecommunications, Australia, Labor, ALP, liberalism, mixed economy, Keynes, public monopoly, socialism, social democracy, Left, privatisation, monopoly, Optus, rent-seeking, economics, economies of scale, fibre to the node, fibre to the home, Kevin Rudd, Stephen Conroy neoliberalism
Telstra shares were 7 cents lower at $3.69 in afternoon trading today. On December 15, Telstra was kicked out of the bidding process for the government's national high-speed broadband network for failing to include a small and medium enterprise (SME)...
Tags: national broadband network, broadband, telecommunications, communications, australia, Telstra, Sol Trujillo, broadband network, national broadband
THE Rudd Government promised 2008 to be the year of fast broadband for all Australians but instead it will be remembered as a year of "wasted opportunity" according to shadow communications spokesperson Nick Minchin. “Despite all the broadband hype,...
Tags: broadband, national broadband network, communications, labor, left, wasted opportunity, Australia
2008 was a cracker year for Australia's telco industry but three dates stand out: 26 November (no points for guessing what happened then), 11 July (clue is it starts with an "i"), and 28 April. There was likely a lot of head scratching going on with...
Tags: telstra, national broadband network, broadband, Australia, Telstra Corp
Rudd Government for kicking it out of the $15 billion national broadband network tender is not a priority, though the telco has not ruled it out. The company's head of public policy and communications, David Quilty, said the decision, which sent Telstra's...
Tags: communications, telstra, broadband, telecommunications, infrastructure, National Broadband Network, Telstra Corporation, left
Following the Australian governments shock exclusion of Telstra ( TLS ) from participating in the National Broadband Network process, CEO Sol Trujillo has sent a letter to shareholders this morning aiming to calm the fallout. While the giant Aussie incumbent...
Tags: broadband, communications, optus, telecommunications, Telstra, National Broadband Network
Government, marshalling its lawyers for legal action and gearing up to go it alone with a high-speed broadband network after being tossed out of the tender process for a $15 billion publicly-backed national network. But the company now risks losing its...
Tags: national broadband network, broadband, communications, Telstra, broadband network, national broadband, market value, left, Sol Trujillo, telstra share
Telstra , Australia’s dominant telecommunications group, on Monday reacted with fury after the country’s government excluded it from a plan to build a A$10bn ($6.7bn) nationwide high-speed internet network. The group was disqualified from the national...
Tags: broadband, national broadband network, telecommunications, communications, Telstra, monopoly, broadband network, labor, national broadband, Sol Trujillo