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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.

• Optus CEO stokes IPO speculation

  Optus chief executive officer Paul O'Sullivan has further stoked speculation parent company SingTel may sell or float its ASX-listed subsidiary Optus.

• Obama telecommunications advisor keen on NBN detail

  The Obama administration's interest in the National Broadband Network ([[xref:http://www.computerworld.com.au/tag/NBN|NBN|Computerworld :: NBN]]) continues, with the US president's key telecommunications advisor meeting an Australian analyst earlier this month to discuss the $43 billion plan.

• CCC slams Telstra separation fightback

  The Competitive Carriers Coalition (CCC) has slammed Telstra’s announcement that it will fight the Federal Government’s structural separation legislation.

• Analysts want more submarine cables for Australia

  Australia needs to invest in more international submarine cable links to cater for continued growth in Internet traffic and to provide greater redundancy, according to two leading analysts.

• NBN Co must not become ‘pork barreling bureaucracy’

  News that the CEO of the Federal Government’s National Broadband Network company, Mike Quigley, will pocket upwards of $2 million per year has raised questions whether the cost of running the company may reduce the deployment of broadband services across Australia.

• Analyst: Optus' Internet filter participation shocking and disappointing

  A leading telco analyst has expressed surprise and disappointment at Optus’ decision to join the Federal Government’s controversial Internet filtering trial.

• ACCC questions Hutchison, Vodafone merger

  The ACCC has warned that the proposed merger between Hutchison and Vodafone, announced on February 9th, could lead to increased prices for mobile telephony and mobile broadband (MBB).
  

• ISPs: Telstra never took NBN seriously

  Local Internet Service Providers (ISPs) claim Telstra’s approach to the NBN was not serious enough and say the telco brought disqualification upon itself.

• Telstra drops out of Broadband World

  The Competitive Carriers Coalition (CCC) and chair of Broadband World Australia 2008 have claimed that Telstra has pulled out of the event after it failed to force conference organiser, Terrapinn, to remove the CCC and independent telco analyst, Paul Budde, from the program.