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• Senator Stephen Conroy resigns

  ​Senator Stephen Conroy has announced his resignation from parliament in a speech tabled last night that named the NBN has his ‘greatest contribution’.

• NBN Co to test Aurora fibre plan in Tasmania

  NBN Co will soon trial a proposal by Aurora in Tasmania to string fibre along power lines to reach homes, according to NBN Co chairman Ziggy Switkowski.

• Youth Advisory Group on Cybersafety program unveiled

  The Youth Advisory Group (YAG) on Cybersafety program for 2013 has been launched with the first online discussion forum taking place with primary school students in the Northern Territory, South Australia and West Australia tomorrow.

• Rural and regional Aussies to get better broadband from space

  Communications minister Stephen Conroy claims two satellites, to launch in 2015, will offer broadband services to the bush that will be faster than most people receive in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney on the current copper network today.

• Adobe CEO dodges IT pricing issue at office opening

  Adobe's CEO, Shantanu Narayen, was today quizzed over the Australian pricing of Adobe software products at the launch of the software company's new office in Sydney.

• Conroy says Coalition should “come clean” on broadband policy

  Communications minister Senator Stephen Conroy has called on the Coalition government to unveil its fully costed broadband policy during a doorstop interview today.

• Conroy's NBN lecture lacks "intellectual rigour": Turnbull

  Opposition communications minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has argued against communications minister Stephen Conroy’s attack on the Coalition’s broadband policy as lacking “intellectual rigour or consistency”.

• Top 10 Influential 2011: Telstra's $11b NBN deal approval by the ACCC

  This year has been nothing if not significant when it comes to progress of the Federal Government’s $43 billion National Broadband Network (NBN), following the completion of several milestones in relation the structural separation of Telstra, earning its status as one of the top ten influential stories for 2011.

• Regional Queensland bids farewell to analog TV

  The Federal Government has met its deadline to switch-off all analog television signals across regional Queensland under its Digital Switchover Program.
  

• Federal Govt flags e-health trial for chronically ill veterans

  The Federal Government has flagged a trial of in-house telemonitoring technology for chronically ill veterans via the National Broadband Network (NBN), kicking off in July 2012.

• NBN Co opens new facilities in Melbourne

  Communications minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, has opened up the doors to NBN Co’s new operations and demonstrations facilities in Melbourne’s Docklands, dubbed the “nerve centre” for the National Broadband Networking (NBN).

• DBCDE signs off on Broken Hill fibre link

  The Broken Hill fibre backbone link, part of the Federal Government’s $250 million Regional Backbone Blackspots Program (RBBP), has finally gone live two months later than previously planned.
  

• Govt calls for review of telco fixed-line price caps

  The communications minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, has released a discussion paper for the review of telecommunications retail price controls.

• Role of TIO needs to grow: Conroy

  The telco industry will continue to be hounded by watchdog groups, such as the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO), to provide better customer service, Senator Conroy has said.

• NBN switched on in Townsville

  The latest mainland test site of the National Broadband Network (NBN) has been switched on, with Townsville becoming the first Queensland location to be connected to the network.