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Friday, 3rd September 2010

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TransACT nets its 1000th FTTP customer

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It's not exactly an NBN-scale milestone, but TransACT has connected its 1000th FTTP (fibre to the premises) customer.

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Analysis: Net gambling next on ISP filter hitlist?

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The Communications Law Centre (CLC) has called for a tightening of Australian laws to more effectively prohibit access to online casino-style games like poker, blackjack and roulette.

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Broadband not on Katter's wish-list

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Rural independent MP Bob Katter has made public his 'wish-list' of issues he wants addressed by Prime Minister Julia Gillard or Opposition leader Tony Abbott before he is prepared to offer his support to either in forming a minority government - and it doesn't include broadband.

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NBN key to open government: Lundy

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Labor senator and technology advocate Kate Lundy has told a New Zealand conference that only high-speed broadband offered by the National Broadband Network will lead to a true open government in Australia.

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AAPT shooting blanks over email

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ISP AAPT has sent blank emails to customers in an attempt to advise them of the impending sale of their consumer broadband or phone account to iiNet.

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Telstra move worries rivals

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The closure of a South Brisbane telephony exchange has Telstra's competitors fuming.

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Thursday, 2nd September 2010

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Internode flags business market push

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Internet service provider, Internode has flagged its intention to increasingly target the business market, announcing the opening of a Brisbane office to dirctly service its existing and expanding customer base in the sunshine state.

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Treasury claims $900m Coalition NBN shortfall

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The Coalition's promised savings from scrapping the National Broadband Network were $900 million out over four years, a Treasury analysis claimed.

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No one is selfless in NBN debate

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One of the signatories to a national broadband proposal unveiled at the eleventh hour to rival Labor's own long-running NBN project has accused vendors and telcos of stirring up hype for a fibre-optic cable future in line with a view to serving their own interests in generating massive contracts and gaining operating certainty.

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Treasury costings scant on NBN details

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You might have expected that the Treasury's costings of the two major party's election policies - released to the Independents and the media late yesterday - would contain a fair amount of detail about how much each party's wildly differing broadband policy would cost.

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Wednesday, 1st September 2010

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If NBN 3.0 can promise "up to 100Mbps" by wireless why can't NBN Co?

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We now have two new acronyms in the every growing lexicon of telecommunications - NBN 3.0 and AAB, the Alliance for Affordable Broadband - along with the promise of near FTTH performance from wireless networks: all from a 'gang of seven' CEOs who, with two exceptions, are exclusively providers of wireless communications services.

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Telstra overhauls Torres Strait broadband

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Telstra has embarked on a $5.3 million project to improve broadband services for islands in the Torres Strait region of far northern Queensland.

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Business leaders call for NBN

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A group of telecommunications executives yesterday made an 11th-hour plea to independent MPs over the National Broadband Network.

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Analysts explains why some telcos don't want an NBN

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Analysts have provided lukewarm responses to an open letter from senior telco executives that criticises the Government's National Broadband Network.

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Telcos back coalition-style NBN, slam Labor

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A new telecommunications lobby group laden with telco chiefs has trashed the $43 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) and backed a privately-run wireless network worth some $3 billion that is reminiscent of coalition policy which it dubbed NBN 3.0.

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NBN3 Wireless plan needs 4G spectrum fast-track

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A wireless National Broadband Network proposal aired late yesterday called for the expedited release of 4G spectrum by regulators as well as access to Telstra backhaul and mobile towers to cut out further costs.

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Telcos lob broadband grenade: Abbott may be right

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An alliance of large telcos has lobbed a last-minute grenade into talks around who will form the next government by proposing a new broadband plan that appears more aligned with the Coalition's policy than Labor's national broadband network.

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Tuesday, 31st August 2010

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Rebel yell: NBN 3.0 is a much better idea

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A splinter group of rebel telecommunications players have broken with their Australian brethren's long-standing support for Labor's National Broadband Network policy, publishing their own NBN 3.0 model in an apparent attempt to influence the independent members of parliament who may decide the next Federal Government.

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Gillard cautions against "savage" NBN cuts

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Prime Minister Julia Gillard has argued that the national broadband network should not be cut or savaged "just when it's making a real difference".

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20 things to do with a big, fast Internet plan: Listen to Internet radio

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Digital radio might offer access to a few dozen stations, but internet radio over broadband brings the world to your doorstep.

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