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The national broadband network (NBN) is about customer outcomes not Telstra shareholder outcomes. It's about the best way to deliver competitive, accessible, fairly priced, high-speed broadband to as many customers as possible...The Government must stick...
Tags: broadband, communications, monopoly, National Broadband Network, Telstra, left
THE Rudd Government is planning a Budget assault on middle class welfare which could see health benefits and family payments wound back. With the global crisis blowing a $40 billion hole in revenues, economic departments have begun targeting expensive...
Australia's second-largest telecom yesterday posted a 2% rise in net profits to $125 million for the second quarter, as its bottom line bore the brunt of subsidies to attract lucrative iPhone customers. Chief executive Paul O'Sullivan said he believed...
Tags: optus, broadband, national broadband network, wireless, Paul O'Sullivan
Terria, which is bidding for the Australian Government's national broadband network tender. If successful, the group will give a role to the unions, putting it into marked contrast with the other bidder, Telstra...At Telstra on the other hand, the staff...
Tags: communications, national broadband network, broadband, Terria
Jennifer Hewett and Michael Sainsbury November 07, 2008 THE Rudd Government's plans for a national broadband network are at risk of unravelling with Telstra threatening not even to put in a bid this month. The alternative Optus-led consortium is also...
Tags: national broadband network, broadband, optus, NBN, broadband network, national broadband
Government's $4.7 billion national broadband network. Telstra wholesale group managing director Kate McKenzie pulled out of a national broadband conference scheduled to start in Sydney today because the self-styled media and communications group was...
Tags: national broadband network, broadband, communications, national broadband, Telstra, broadband network
The suggestion that 73.5% of Australian businesses were keen to join a national fibre-based broadband network, the type proposed by the Federal Government, came from an Australian Industry Group survey of 526 domestic chief executives. While almost three-quarters...
Tags: broadband, australia, productivity, national broadband network, Australian Industry Group, broadband network, chief executive
Terria broadband consortium last week, the telco's chief executive Paul Broad has called for an independent inquiry into the broadband issue and a recasting of the Government process. Mr Broad questioned the basis for the national broadband network investment,...
Tags: broadband, national broadband network, telecommunications, communications, optus
Telecom New Zealand to focus its money on the home market after its profit warning yesterday as it marked out half a billion dollars for a new 3G mobile network...Despite reports that Terria needed to rethink its finances because of the credit crisis...
Telecom, a key member of a consortium bidding to build Australia's national broadband network (NBN), has pulled out, according to a report. The New Zealand company has withdrawn from the Terria consortium just weeks before the November 26 deadline for...
Tags: telecommunications, australia, communications, national broadband network, broadband, Telstra, The Australian Financial Review, Australian Medical Association, optus, labor