As the Gillard government draws up its broadband battlelines for the imminent federal election, Communications Day chief editor Petroc Wilton caught up with communications minister Stephen Conroy to talk about his policy platforms, future reform plans, and the highs and lows of his tenure in the comms portfolio to date.
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INTERVIEW: Communications minister Stephen Conroy
July 29th, 2010 |
121 post views Cautious welcome for new trans-Pacific cable
July 28th, 2010 |
128 post views Carriers, wholesalers and analysts on both sides of the Tasman have welcomed the reveal of the planned Pacific Fibre cable with carefully tempered optimism.
Internode MD Simon Hackett, whose company has a long-standing relationship with Southern Cross as well as with Pacnet on its global network, noted that it could be some time before tangible benefits [...]
COMMENT: The NZ think tanks challenging the FTTH cargo cult
July 28th, 2010 |
70 post views Is the Australian and New Zealand government’s obsession with the fibre to the home and high speed broadband little more than a ‘cargo cult’? That’s the question that’s being posed in New Zealand, albeit in a far more elegant fashion, by leading research institutes, the Motu Institute at University of Waikato and the Institute for [...]
Pacnet, Pacific Fibre combine to build new Australia-NZ-US cable
July 28th, 2010 |
74 post views Pacnet and Pacific Fibre have announced a joint plan to build the Pacific Fibre Cable, a new trans-pacific subsea fibre optic route set to provide a huge increase in connectivity between Australia, New Zealand and the US at an estimated cost of US$400 million.
The two firms expect that the new [...]
Optus follows Telstra in convergence-styled management restructure
July 27th, 2010 |
214 post views Just a day after Telstra revealed details of an extensive revamp of its network, operations and digital media groups, CommsDay has learned that Optus is reorganising from 1 September along similar lines.
Optus staff were told yesterday that its products, networks and IT functions will be combined under a new Technology & Products division. It is [...]
COMMENT: Should Apple buy Nokia Siemens Networks?
July 27th, 2010 |
2,848 post views There’s an interesting rumour going around some analyst types that made its way into the CommsDay mailbox last night. It suggests that Apple is to buy Nokia Siemens Networks.
Now I am not sure whether or not this rumour is based on any real indication of expressed interest on behalf of the world’s most valuable tech [...]
Primus says Telstra price squeeze might kill NBN
July 27th, 2010 |
2,448 post views The retail broadband price cuts announced by Telstra have triggered a furious backlash from Primus echoed by a host of other wholesale customers, with the drastic reductions compounding existing fears of ‘margin squeeze’ if there are no corresponding changes to wholesale pricing.
Primus CEO Ravi Bhatia warned that the cuts could see competitors forced out of [...]
Internet NZ claim: Telecom’s separation variation could kill UFB
July 26th, 2010 |
97 post views A new separation variation requested by Telecom NZ amounts to the end of operational separation and could kill the New Zealand government’s NZ$1.5 billion ultrafast broadband project, claims InternetNZ..
The organisation, which represents the interests of New Zealand internet companies and users, made these claims as part of its submission to communications minister Steven Joyce.
Earlier this [...]
BHARTI AIRTEL: Ambitious plans to build POPs to 100 nations
July 25th, 2010 |
253 post views Just a few short years ago, Bharti Airtel was largely an mobile operator in its home market of India with very little infrastructure outside the country. Since then, the company has coming a long way into the international telecoms scene, and it has done it at break neck speed, from building its first international POP [...]
COMMENT: One side yet to turn up for NBN debate
July 25th, 2010 |
106 post views It’s pretty hard to have a policy debate without a policy. Yet quite noticeably the Australian Federal election campaign is in full swing and one side of politics is yet to give detail of what their policy is regarding telecommunications – other than to say they’ll scrap the National Broadband Network without offering any detail [...]
