Broadband Advisor

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Optus, iiNet put filters to the test 13/11/2008 09:44:00
Telcos infiltrate to get the facts.

Telcos critical of the government's clean-feed Internet scheme will respond to a call to trial the technology over the holiday season.
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ACCC rejects Telstra's Optus HFC exemption 12/11/2008 12:11:00
The organisation issued a final decision rejecting Telstra's request to be released from its obligations to provide regulated services to Optus's HFC network.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) this week issued a final decision to reject Telstra's request to be exempted from providing certain regulated fixed line services to Optus.
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NBN: Competing with customers is bad for business 08/11/2008 18:00:00
Canadian next-gen network CEO labels Telstra’s vertically integrated monopoly a “relic” that wont work for the NBN.

Canadian next-gen networking company, Axia NetMedia CEO, Art Price, has offered a simple message to whoever wins the tender to build Australia’s National Broadband Network: Competing with your customers is bad for business.
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NBN to hit retail and wholesale profits 07/11/2008 12:24:00
As genuine broadband moves consumers closer to producers, a leading economist predicts retail and wholesale profits will dip

A leading economist has predicted the National Broadband Network (NBN) will boost all industries but also hurt retail and wholesale companies.
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Telstra drops out of Broadband World 05/11/2008 11:43:00
Telstra accused of “bullying” conference organisers into removing anti-Telstra speakers

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.
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Libs take Telstra split off the cards 05/11/2008 14:25:00
Too late to fix T3 mistake

Australia has missed its chance to split Telstra should it win the National Broadband Network (NBN), according to former finance boss, turned shadow communications minister Nick Minchin.
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Terria loses its Soul 27/10/2008 11:13:00
G7 becomes G6 as Soul pulls out of the Terria consortium

Soul has today become the [[artid: 1782661655|third member to withdraw|new]] from the Terria consortium of telcos in as many months.
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TransACT pulls pin on Terria 27/10/2008 14:51:00
Consortium confident amid dwindling membership and looming deadline.

Terria has today copped another blow after former consortium member TransACT resigned to pursue its own National Broadband Network (NBN) proposal.
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'Appalled' opposition hits back at Conroy’s Internet censorship 24/10/2008 13:35:00
The Government’s attempts to silence criticism of content filtering sparks outrage.

The newly appointed shadow broadband minister, Senator Nick Minchin, has voiced his appall that a member of Senator Conroy’s office had tried to curb severely critical comments made by Internode network engineer Mark Newton regarding the government’s Internet content filtering scheme.
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NBN flame wars continue over 'cosy' deal, Optus' suitability to build 23/10/2008 12:39:00
Around the separation/regulation merry-go-round war of words we go, once again...

Telstra has continued fuelling the NBN flame wars this week as it threw down a challenge to SingTel Optus in the wake of AAPT’s departure from Terria and Optus CEO Paul O’Sullivan’s comments that his company won’t invest in fixed line services if the government does a “cosy” deal with Telstra for the NBN build.
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Australian economy critically reliant on National Broadband Network: survey 22/10/2008 12:48:00
From construction to implementation the NBN will transform the economy… if the government and industry get it right.

A survey of business leaders by Australian Industry Group (AiG) and Deloitte has further cemented the critical reliance of Australia’s economy on the National Broadband Network (NBN).