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    Telstra shareholders should shoot the telco's management if it ever agrees to structural separation in order to build the national broadband network, Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo said today.

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    The Rudd government was "hopelessly compromised" on its plan to build a national broadband network, former Communications Minister Helen Coonan said this week.

  • Telstra must be separated, says 2020 Summit

    The recently published 2020 summit Final Report has recommended that the government looks seriously into the separation of its national fibre-to-the-node provider, echoing repeated calls by rival telcos to break up Telstra if it wins the national broadband network tender.

  • Telco separation: more than meets the eye

    Regulatory submissions to the federal government's AU$4.7 billion national broadband network mostly only paid lip service to the complications and risks of separation in the telecommunications industry, analyst firm Ovum said today.

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    Commonwealth, state and local government representatives have agreed to work on a unified approach to Australia's broadband infrastructure as pressure mounts on the Federal government to insist on a structural separation of Telstra.

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    Colonel John Hayes, chief information officer of the US Air Force Reserve command talks about tapping into the technology expertise of its recruits for the development of innovative ideas, like the military's new 'Emergency Notification' system.

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    An analysis by representatives of Australia's two largest IT industry groups shows that neither political party in the federal election has come up with a comprehensive policy around technology.

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    Today's systems increasingly blend the digital and the physical -- and the convergence is spawning industry alliances that might have seemed unusual in the past.

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    The frequency is changing from wired working to a wireless world. Can this new wave of technology help you gain the cutting edge?

  • Microsoft plays browser games

    News analysis: Following its recent settlement with AOL, Microsoft has let slip that it will stop making Internet Explorer as a standalone product. But what does this mean for users?

  • Tech Guide: Wireless glossary

    3G, GPRS, TransFlash, RS-MMC. Don't know what they mean? Check out our glossary of wireless terms.

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