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  • AU$6.4m NT broadband plan sparks political stoush

    With an election looming, regional broadband has once again found itself at the centre of a political battle -- this time, it's the Northern Territory's turn for a war of words.

  • Movers and shakers 2007: Who left and why

    2007 saw more key executives leaving their posts than those joining companies. We take a look at who left their hot seats last year and why.

  • 2007: How was it for Telstra?

    Was 2007 a good year for Telstra? Possibly. Was it a good year for Telstra's lawyers? Definitely.

  • Fibre rollout: Plans revealed 'in weeks'

    With the expert taskforce on Australia's fibre-to-the-node rollout newly convened, the government has now set out the rules on how the group must make their decision.

  • Telstra: G9 is 'expensive, dangerous, dysfunctional'

    Telstra has published a response to the G9 consortium's fibre-to-the-node proposal, calling it an expensive and dangerous proposal that "imposes a tortured, dysfunctional ownership and management structure"

  • Government caps liability for ICT contractors

    Information technology and communications (ICT) suppliers will largely be freed from the dangers of uncapped legal liability in federal government contracts under moves by Canberra to reform its procurement practices.

  • Coonan, Lundy target SMEs

    Smaller ICT companies could have greater prospects of winning Australian government IT business with both sides of politics promising to lower a long standing barrier for SMEs.

  • AIIA, ACS welcome Coonan's reappointment

    The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) has welcomed Senator Helen Coonan's reappointment as the Minister for Communications and Information Technology.

  • Government claims better SME access to ICT deals

    The federal government has thrown cold water on critics of its ICT tendering policies who claim the system heavily favours multinationals, releasing a report saying small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) are winning a growing proportion of government ICT contracts.

  • Telstra and Coonan head for $1bn WiMax showdown

    A date for round two of the ongoing legal battle between Telstra and Communications Minister Helen Coonan has been set by the Federal Court..

  • Fibre and WiMax plans will not be derailed: Coonan

    Communications Minister Helen Coonan fought back today against attacks on the government's WiMax and fibre to the node plans, saying that opponents had sought to cloud the broadband debate.

  • G9 "officially" enters FTTN fray

    update:The competition to build a national fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) broadband network stepped up today, with the Optus-led G9 consortium officially confirming it will enter the fray.

  • Govt: Web porn blocking test will go ahead

    The government has squashed speculation that its Internet content-filtering trial had been brought to an end prematurely.

  • Fibre in their hands: Crucial panel unveiled

    With the details of who will build Australia's bush broadband network freshly released, the government has also taken the next step towards choosing whether Telstra or the rival G9 consortium will build the long-awaited 50Mbps urban fibre network.

  • Slow fault repairs to cost telcos AU$50 a day

    Telcos will soon be slapped with an AU$50 fine for every day it takes to repair a telephone fault or if they do not connect a line within mandated timeframes, Communications Minister Helen Coonan has warned.

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