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Saturday, 1st January 2011
Coalition targets NBN over bribes scandal
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The two top executives of the company rolling out the national broadband network have tried to distance themselves from an international corruption scandal that is engulfing their former employer, the French telco giant Alcatel.
Friday, 31st December 2010
NBN advisers fined in US for paying bribes
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Alcatel-lucent, the company providing key advice to the National Broadband Network, has been fined $137 million in the US.
NBN project a worry: John Colvin
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The chief of the Australian Institute of Company Directors is particularly worried about the National Broadband Network.
NBN boss denies part in corruption scandal
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Mike Quigley, the man Kevin Rudd appointed to head the national broadband network, denies being involved in a multimillion-dollar bribery scandal that occurred during his time as a top executive at the French telecommunications giant Alcatel.
Thursday, 30th December 2010
Behind the 'no' to Telstra's flat $30
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It was an exciting, brash and colourful time in a complex and boring industry.
Face to face: Vodafail's Brimo meets VHA chief
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Over just a few short weeks his nascent website has become a focal point for customers angered by problems in the mobile networks of telco giant VHA, with his name has been splashed across Australia's mass media. Now Vodafail founder Adam Brimo has taken his complaints directly to the top of the corporate telco ladder.
Wednesday, 29th December 2010
Alcatel Lucent fined over bribes
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French-based telecom equipment giant and NBN contractor Alcatel-Lucent has agreed to pay US$137 million in fines and penalties to settle US charges it paid bribes to win contracts in Latin America and Asia, officials said.
Tuesday, 28th December 2010
NBN: politicians and their promises
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The Federal Coalition, the opposition to the Federal Government, has had its Finance Spokesperson, Andrew Robb, make an excellent suggestion in relation to the NBN, but would he take it up himself?
Monday, 27th December 2010
Asbestos next big challenge for NBN
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The company delivering the National Broadband Network could be forced to remove asbestos from trenches being dug for the project.
Vodafone customers to sue in class action
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It has already presided over one of the biggest PR disasters of the year and now Vodafone faces being sued by potentially thousands of its customers over poor network performance.
Costly NBN will prove a super test
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Would Julia Gillard and Stephen Conroy be willing to link their superannuation payouts to the performance of the National Broadband Network?
Sunday, 26th December 2010
2010: the year of the NBN
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2010 was one of the biggest years on record for the telecommunications industry: The National Broadband Network (NBN) roll-out began, the project became much more political and we consequently had Australia's first election fought and won on broadband policy.
NBN promises already broken?
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The NBN is coming... in 10 years, even longer than initially promised. Which promises will be broken next?
Thursday, 23rd December 2010
Will Vodafone survive its network mess?
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It is late in the month of October in the year 2008. And Sydney has just begun the long wind-down as it prepares for its traditionally glorious summer. But despite all the frivolity, Optus managing director of products and delivery Andrew Buay is not having fun.
Datacentre builds to follow NBN sites: IBM
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David Yip, leader of IBM's Site and Facility Services arm, has predicted that first and second release site for the National Broadband Network (NBN) could bring with it new points of presence for datacentre vendors.
NBN: a sick, dirty and expensive joke played on Australians
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Now that the wildly optimistic NBN figures are out, showing the NBN won’t be available to all Australians for almost a decade, we can safely say the NBN is a sick, dirty, political and very expensive joke. Thanks Senator Conroy!
Photos: Networking remote Australia
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Telstra's network operations team share some snaps from the most remote corners of Australia as they construct fibre, wireless and satellite networks.
Detour on Telstra road to NBN deal
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Telstra has set itself an Australia Day deadline to finalise its $13.8 billion deal with the government.
Wednesday, 22nd December 2010
NBN: The dirty little secret of regional Australia
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While NBN proponents tout wildly optimistic benefits that ubiquitous FttH will bring to regional Australia, the rhetoric falls way short of what will actually be delivered to bush dwellers. This is the claim of the head of at least one telecoms carrier, who says the lead time for rolling out the NBN to a large proportion of country Australia will be unacceptably long and will not happen at all in many cases.
Telstra confirms: no definitive NBN agreement this year
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Telstra has written to shareholders telling them that it will not be able to meet its earlier commitment to complete definitive agreements with NBN Co by the end of the year, but that it still hopes to present the deal to them my mid year so they can vote on it.
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