Category Archives: Technology

NBN Solving the Employment Crisis

In yet another thoroughly weak attempt to broadside the NBN, The Australian newspaper has come up with this latest piece of drivel: NBN Battery Recycling Could Add $240m Even if it does add that much to the total cost of the NBN – (and I’m in no position to judge how the recycling industry operates) […]

NBN Allows for Expansion of Mobile Services

Through the National Broadband Network (NBN) business plan, released yesterday and available here, it becomes apparent that the NBN will allow for third party mobile service providers to use the network to expand their coverage. Specifically, on page 48 of the plan, under “Backhaul Service to Mobile Base Station”, it states: “The Plan assumes that […]

Coalition NBN Response Broadband Failure

In a most ironic twist, the Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, and his communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull tried to deliver a response to this morning’s release by the government of the business plan for NBN Co. As indicated in the screen grab, it was delivered “via broadband” – the same broadband infrastructure the opposition believes is […]

NBN Business Plan to Be Revealed

After months of arguments and counter arguments, the business plan for the National Broadband Network (NBN) is to finally be released today by the minister concerned, Stephen Conroy, almost two months after it was first received by the government. What we see at midday will undoubtedly be a testament to how many black textas are […]

Guardian: Up, Down or Blocked?

The Guardian website appears to be down, amid reports that some level of blocking has occurred in regards to their WikiLeaks coverage. I have heard reports that it has been officially blocked in Thailand, but I’ve not seen confirmation as yet. Certainly, it appears inaccessible from here in Australia at the moment. So is it […]

Telstra: The Return

Well, the saga is finally complete. After nine days of shenanigans, the phone lines in my street are completely underground again, with Telstra returning yesterday morning to finally string a cable through the new conduit and re-splice the street line – again. So – nine days to fix a problem that blew most of the […]

Telstra Shenanigans

As I discussed in my article in regards to the structural separation of Telstra, there have been some major issues with my own copper phone line over the last week. For some time – (actually, the entire time of more than five years I’ve lived at our current address) – every single time a significant […]

Telstra Separation Goodness

With the passing in federal parliament on Monday of the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment Competition and Consumer Safeguards Bill 2010, the structural separation of Telstra is finally in sight, laying the foundations for the full establishment of the National Broadband Network (NBN). Up until now I have held off making any comment since the passing of […]

Australian Internet Censorship Plans Get Even Crazier

In what seems to be an under-reported twist to the plans for Australia to implement ISP-level “filtering”, comes a plan to ban all forms of tobacco advertising online Internet Cigar Fanciers Create a Stink “The ever-present cigars mean Mr Reilly could now be in the sights of the federal government, which is expected today to […]

NBN: Not Mobile Wireless Broadband

A lot of debate over the NBN has centred on whether it should be a completely wireless solution. Certainly, there are functional benefits to wireless solutions, and many believe the NBN would be much cheaper and easier if it were a wireless solution. However, as I have discussed previously, wireless isn’t as quick, easy, and […]