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• It can't get worse than Minchin: Budde

  The ICT industry couldn’t get a worse shadow communications minister than Nick Minchin, according to telecommunications analyst Paul Budde.

• Organisations should prepare for the NBN now: Gartner

  Enterprise network users must evaluate their attitudes, relationships and approaches to sourcing networking services in Australia, because of the radical NBN-fuelled changes emerging in the telecommunications environment.

• Telstra and NSW Government sign $280m broadband deal

  The NSW government has signed a $280 million deal with Telstra for the rollout of an optic fibre network to public schools and TAFE institutes.

• NBN Co picks CIO and government relations officer

  The company responsible for rolling out the National Broadband Network has appointed two new senior staff. NBN Co announced former British Telecom employee and current AAPT consultant, Claire Rawlins, will take on the role of chief information officer (CIO), while the Queensland premier's chief of staff, Mike Kaiser, will become principal for government relations and external affairs.

• Australia should pay close attention to China: CSIRO

  Australia should pay close attention to how new technology is taken up in China, as it will likely have a global impact in the future, according to a leading CSIRO scientist.

• Smart Grid cash up for grabs

  The Federal Government is calling on the energy industry to [[xref:www.environment.gov.au/smartgrid|submit bids]] for the $100 million smart grid. The ‘Smart Grid, Smart City' initiative will oversee the deployment of Australia’s first commercial-scale smart grid, touted as having the potential to cut the price of household energy bills and reduce carbon.

• New locations revealed in Tasmanian NBN rollout

  The second stage of the National Broadband Network (NBN) rollout in Tasmania has been announced with the addition of seven locations across the state.

• Telstra: NBN good, separation bad

  Telstra has used its appearance at the Senate Standing Committee on telecommunications legislation amendments to reiterate its support for the NBN, and its opposition to the Federal Government’s structural separation bill.
  

• NBN Co appoints two more executives

  NBN Co Limited, the company established to deliver the National Broadband Network (NBN) has announced two more members to its executive team.

• NBN construction rolls on in Tassie (updated)

  Work has officially commenced on the Cambridge to Midway Point section of the National Broadband Network (NBN) in Tasmania.

• NBN: Australia’s $43 billion iPhone

  The National Broadband Network will provide an iPhone-like boom in online applications and services when complete, Federal Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, has said.
  

• Draft NBN architecture documents expected early next month

  Australian communications industry body, The Communications Alliance, will publish a draft set of national broadband network (NBN) architecture documents next month with information on the various network elements and functions in the fibre-to-the-premises and the wireless and satellite scenarios.

• Conroy: Telstra must separate (updated)

  The Australian Government wants Telstra to structurally separate and if the telco giant won't do so voluntarily the Rudd administration will use regulation to achieve the goal.

• Calls for Tasmanian premier to take on ICT role

  Tasmania's peak ICT industry body, TasICT, has called for the State's Premier to help build the ICT industry and leverage the NBN by taking on a new ministerial role.

• NBN 'Reckless': Minchin

  Shadow minister for Communications Senator Nick Minchin has pointed to the findings of two studies as evidence of the “expose the recklessness” of the Rudd Government’s $43 billion National Broadband Network.