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  • Terria holds ground as AAPT walks

    Telecommunications consortium Terria has remained defiant after AAPT became the second member to withdraw its membership in less than four months.

  • Critic: Weak Govt got NBN wrong, now just sitting on bum

    Telecommunications infrastructure investment through a National Broadband Network (NBN) will help Australia weather the economic crisis, but only if the ACCC and the government can pull their heads out, get the NBN players co-operating and turn the first sod before 2010.

  • Burgo's parting message: No one can build the NBN but Telstra

    Before returning to the US, Telstra's outgoing director of public policy and communications, Phil Burgess, took the opportunity to level a few parting shots at the ACCC, the government and Telstra's competitors, while insisting no one but Telstra can meet the government's requirements for the construction of a National Broadband Network.

  • Terria bites back at Telstra’s monopolist accusations

    The managing director of the Terria consortium, Michael Simmons, hit back at Telstra’s attack on comments he made yesterday regarding Terria’s desire for the government to preclude an alternative National Broadband Network (NBN), labeling it a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

  • Australian innovation plummeting, Telstra profits soaring: Optus, CCC

    The tit-for-tat war of words between Telstra and Optus over the National Broadband Network process continued last week at the 2008 Australian Telecommunications Summit, as Optus’ head of government and regulatory affairs, Maha Krishnapillai, warned that Telstra’s submission for an open access NBN is akin to free and open elections in Zimbabwe.

  • Opposition calls for separation, likens NBN process to Mugabe politics

    Shadow Communications Minister Bruce Billson yesterday called on the nation’s telecommunications industry to adopt a less combative and more collaborative approach to the NBN debate. He also told attendees at the 2008 Australian Telecommunications Summit that the opposition backed the call for a structurally separate NBN proponent.

  • NBN countdown looms

    The countdown for bidders to get in proposals for the National Broadband Network (NBN) will restart within days, following the retrieval of crucial network data by telecommunications carriers.

  • Reserve Bank weighs in on eBay’s PayPal push

    The Reserve Bank of Australia’s Payment Systems Board is entering discussions with PayPal and its owner eBay to encourage the payment provider to voluntarily remove the no-surchage and no-steering rules that have come under fire by the ACCC for being anti-competitive.

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