Tag Archives: openinternet

What If Telstra Just Disappeared?

There has been a valid and interesting debate with respect to the rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN). Why is it we need to replace what is almost a complete monopoly wholesale network provider – (Telstra) – with another complete monopoly in NBN Co? How does replacing one monopoly with another promote competition as […]

More Australian Government Media Content Control

Hot on the heels of the divisive mandatory internet filtering debate in this country, comes yet more government control being exerted over the content of media – with the news that the government will require the next operator of the Australia Network to provide advance notice of programming guides to the Department of Foreign Affairs […]

NBN: Interesting Tidbits from Quigley

Following up on my previous post in regards to the shape of end-user NBN services, I thought I would discuss a few interesting comments made by NBN Co CEO Mike Quigley at the morning Q&A session at the NBN Customer Collaboration Forum last week in Melbourne. While I will be presenting his comments as “quotes” […]

ACL: Once Again Showing Their Hypocrisy

Well, it seems like the good guys and gals over at the Australian Christian Lobby are up to their good old fashioned tricks of censoring the debates they start themselves. Explain Attempt to Censor On Line Opinion Website At 3:52pm this afternoon, I posted a comment against this hypocritical article – (hypocritical since the ACL […]

Conroy Contradicts Himself – Again

About this time last year, Stephen Conroy made a potentially embarrassing gaffe on ABC Radio National’s Breakfast with Fran Kelly program, in which he said “you can’t regulate the internet” – before quickly stepping back and qualifying the statement as relating only to IPTV. While his comment was not strictly in the context of his […]

NBN: End User Services Taking Shape

In the first of a series of posts after attending the National Broadband Network (NBN) Collaboration Forum yesterday in Melbourne, I will discuss what has now become completely clear in terms of what services will become available to users once they are connected to the network, progressively over the next nine years. As I discussed […]

NBN: Hands On The Hardware

Attending today’s National Broadband Network (NBN) Collaboration Forum in Melbourne, I managed to get a few moments with the hardware that end users will receive when their premises are connected to the network progressively over the next nine years. Firstly, we have the externally mounted network termination unit (NTU). The first shot is an external […]

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 […]