Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has poured cold water on media reports that Telstra will be handed a 49 per cent stake in the National Broadband Network Company (NBN Co) if it cleaves off its wholesale arm.
Optus has today called for the structural separation of Telstra in a response to a government regulatory reform paper.
The federal government will borrow about half of its initial $4.7 billion investment into the National Broadband Network (NBN).
Federal and state governments have come under fire from the Australian Computer Society (ACS) for what it claims is insufficient support of the IT industry.
The competition watchdog has thrown its weight behind the functional separation of Telstra which will undo “mistakes” in relation to telco's vertical integration.
The coalition has attacked the decision-making process behind the National Broadband Network (NBN) following alleged denials by the government's expert panel that it did not advise on the Fibre-to-the-Home (FttH) upgrade.
Taxpayers will be forced to foot more than $702,000 bill to cover the tender costs of the government's scrapped first National Broadband Network (NBN) plans.
The viability of the National Broadband Network (NBN) is at risk after the budget failed to address how it will be used by government departments, according to the Australian Computer Society (ACS).
A war of words has broken out between Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and his opposite number, Nick Minchin, leader of the opposition in the Senate over the viability of the National Broadband Network.
The government’s National Broadband Network (NBN) stole the lion’s share of the federal government’s IT budget, delivered in Canberra last night by Treasurer Wayne Swan, along with a swath of broadband-related initiatives, while remaining cash was tipped into existing projects.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has rejected the need for a cost benefit analysis for the National Broadband Network (NBN).
Exorbitant backhaul cost may have crippled regional broadband investment but telecommunications experts say Telstra will pose no threat to the National Broadband Network (NBN) if it is structurally separated.
The federal government is under increasing pressure to control access prices following research claiming the National Broadband Network (NBN) may lose a third of its users to wireless broadband.
Australia’s peak technology organisations have expressed optimism that Tuesday’s federal budget will be kind to the information technology sector. But this is tempered by knowledge that the NBN will dominate ICT expenditure over the next few years.
The $43 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) may have been fait accompli according to industry members who met with Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard.