Everybody – at least nearly everybody – loves infrastructure. We love trains and bridges and tunnels and stuff. And politicians love infrastructure more than anybody. They love announcing big...
Communications
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| by Mark Gregory
The government has commenced a public review of telecommunications consumer representation, and research on telecom-related issues being carried out and funded under section 593 of the Telecommunications Act 1997....
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| by James Riley
If it was ever possible to conduct a reasonable discussion about the National Broadband Network without getting attacked by ideologues, those days are long past. Debate on broadband issues...
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It is a national disgrace that must be born by every government since Bob Hawke’s that the Australian telecommunications market is still so effectively dominated by Telstra, which rakes...
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Vodafone Hutchison Australia CEO Iñaki Berroeta has used his 2016 Charles Todd Oration last week to announce that Vodafone would offer fixed broadband over the National Broadband Network (NBN)...
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No formal announcement has been made, but it is becoming increasingly obvious that NBN Co is looking at G.fast as the technology it will use to squeeze fibre-like speeds...
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Mobile Virtual Network Operators are the forgotten victims of rampant overcharging and anti-competitive behaviour at the heart of the telco battle about whether or not domestic mobile roaming should...
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Having a proven entrepreneurial nose for making the right (serial) bets on the next big trends in all things digital – including changing customer behaviour – and then spinning...
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Martin Parkinson’s speech to CEDA’s State of the Nation conference dinner demonstrated how wise Malcolm Turnbull was to bring back to the public service someone capable of understanding so...
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“One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn’t belong; Can you tell which thing is not like the others, By the time...
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There is “absolutely no chance” that government will end the Universal Service Obligation (USO) at the end of its review of the system, according to Telstra Group Director of...
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It is time for NBN Co Chairman Dr Ziggy Switkowski to call an end to the shell game that is being played out in an effort to carefully manage...
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Malcolm Turnbull has urged Australian corporate leaders to appoint cybersecurity expertise to board level positions, and called on business and governments to create a common language for describing cyber...
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The Digital Transformation Office (DTO) has applied the brakes to its national identity framework plans. In a letter sent to the 70-odd organisations that replied to its Request for...