Even as the government is busy setting up deals for orbital satellites as part of the NBN, Minister for Broadband, Communications, and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, said small communities in regional Australia would still prefer fibre-to-the-home
Despite months of lobbying, a Google and iiNet-backed industry group, the Safer Internet Group (SIG), has been unsuccessful in meeting with the communications minister, Stephen Conroy, to discuss their alternative to the Government’s proposed mandatory ISP-filter.
The Federal Government is poised to announce the rollout of an additional 6000 kilometres of fibre optic backbone as part of its Regional Backbone Blackspots Program.
In a rowdy sitting of the Senate communications minister, Senator Stephen Conroy and his shadow, Senator Nick Minchin, have traded barbs over the erroneous tabling of an Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) document containing a confidential valuation of Telstra's core network.
The $25 billion difference in valuations of Tesltra's core network between the telco and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is not news to the industry, according to an IDC telecommunications analyst.