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  • Telstra pays $5m FTTN bond, network details included

    Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo announced this morning that the company has lodged its AU$5 million tender bond for the national fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) network.

  • Govt not paying for fibre-to-the-home: Conroy

    Federal Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Stephen Conroy said yesterday he was open to fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) proposals as part of the national broadband network rollout but warned that the government would not increase its AU$4.7 billion budget.

  • Govt: No plans to relax rules on Telstra

    Communications Minister Helen Coonan said the federal government won't relax regulations on Telstra just because it has proposed an AU$5 billion hi-tech communications network for the bush.

  • WA ISPs lash Internet filtering proposal

    Western Australia's peak Internet service providers' body has slammed proposals by the Opposition Liberal Party to legally force ISPs to filter the Internet for adult content as "populist but ridiculous".

  • Auditor: Labor in the clear over FTTN tender process

    The Commonwealth Auditor-General has responded to accusations by Opposition communications spokesperson Bruce Billson that the tender process for the national fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) network has so far been unfair and anti-competitive.

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Blogs (5)

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    Labor or Liberal, it's Telstra's election

    If there was ever evidence that the stoush over broadband had gotten personal, it came when Telstra's sour-grapes mentality led it to sue Helen Coonan, personally, for claimed procedural flaws in the OPEL contract.

  • Read the blog post - Steven Deare

    ATO offshoring precedent still on horizon

    The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) may have opted against a recent proposal to offshore, but it still seems the writing is on the wall following May's federal budget.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    DCITA: Too many policies, too few policies?

    If someone gave you AU$93.5 million to spend, would you forget it? I wouldn't either. But this is exactly what seems to have happened in the aftermath of the 2007/8 federal budget, which was widely lambasted by many observers -- including yours truly -- for its lack of funding for meaningful ICT related initiatives.

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    Build yourself a Sol-style salary

    Salary reviews are rarely fun, and one of their more challenging elements for senior managers working out what kind of salary/bonus structure is appropriate.

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    Bill Zikou is coming back after five years in the Balkans to head up Ericsson Australia ... but is he up to the task?

Features and Case Studies (53)

  • Can the government solve its IT woes?

    Whatever happens in the election, government departments at both state and federal levels are facing major changes to how they build and manage their IT infrastructure. Is the answer shared services, an increased focus on SOA, enhanced Web delivery -- or just telling everyone in your department to get a clue?

  • Kerry pushes tech platform

    Candidate calls for more "innovative economy".

  • Final score: MS/consumers 2--competitors 1

    While there will likely be more litigation from competitors seeking to sanction Microsoft in some way, columnist Tim Landgrave explains why the recent US federal ruling bodes well for both Microsoft, and more importantly, the public consumer sector.

  • Gershon: Easier said than done

    Gershon's recommendations are consistent with those of other jurisdictions that have undertaken similar reviews, and are aimed at giving the ICT centralisation/decentralisation pendulum a shove back towards the centre. This is, however, easier said than done.

  • Joe Biden's tech voting record

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    An international standards body will try again next week to settle on an industrywide blueprint for UWB, or ultrawideband, a wireless technology meant to rival Bluetooth.

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    Databases are by no means an easy product category to understand. Many of the big players now offer free or "light" versions of their databases, but comparing them all is no easy task -- as we found out.

  • Government bans mobile phone ID change

    The Federal Government has announced it will make it illegal to change a mobile phone's unique IMEI number in a move to strengthen attempts to end rampant mobile theft.

  • ACA considers jamming prisoners' mobile phones

    The federal government has formally asked the Australian Communications Authority to investigate the feasibility of allowing state governments to jam mobile phone signals in jails.

  • Patent creates IM wrinkle

    America Online has quietly secured a patent that could shake up the competitive landscape for instant messaging software.

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