Salary increases for ICT professionals across Australia’s communications sector have dipped below the average rise in the cost of living over the last year, according to an annual survey of Australian Computer Society members.
 
Treasury documents have revealed a A$900 million alleged shortfall in its projected savings from the Coalition’s proposed canning of Labor’s NBN.
 
Teresa Corbin [...]

Fresh rifts are opening in the telecoms sector over the direction a national broadband solution should take, with a storm of controversy erupting in response to the Alliance for Affordable Broadband’s ‘NBNv3′ manifesto even as other stakeholders publicly reaffirm their commitment to Labor’s FTTP NBN model. News sites, email discussion lists and the Whirlpool forums [...]

 
A group of high-profile telco CEOs has hammered out a new alliance to deliver a manifesto for NBN 3.0, hoping to influence the future shape of Australian broadband – currently hanging in the balance of lingering election uncertainty and a welter of political horsetrading.
 
Prime minister Julia Gillard has championed Labor’s regional development credentials and specifically [...]

A group of high-profile telco execs has hammered out a new alliance to deliver a manifesto for ‘NBN 3.0’, hoping to influence the future shape of Australian broadband – currently hanging in the balance of lingering election uncertainty and a welter of political horsetrading.
      Championing a public/private investment model, national 4G wireless wholesale coverage for [...]

Some six months after announcing the upgrade of its Next G network to 42Mbps peak downlink speeds, Telstra has followed up with a commercial device launch – albeit initially only for a select group of its business customers. And while Huawei and PCCW may have scored the first commercial launch of the dual carrier HSPA+ [...]

Neither the Australian NBN or New Zealand UFB policies may deliver on their intentions, warned New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation research fellow Dave Heatley at the Asia-Pacific ITS Regional Conference in Wellington.
 
Content-blocking and other non-neutral network practices reduce the overall value of next generation networks said Auckland University senior lecturer [...]

New Zealand communications minister Stephen Joyce has said that the government’s NZ$300 million rural broadband focus has switched from assembling a patchwork of regional networks to a nationwide approach. The announcement came as Joyce issued a final request for proposals on the New Zealand Government’s Rural Broadband Initiative.
 
While much of the Australian telco industry is [...]

Independent MP Tony Windsor has attacked the $43 billion cost of the NBN as a “fictitious number,” warning that the key troika of independent MPs currently in talks with the major parties will closely scrutinise Labor’s policy costings. Meanwhile, broadband policy discussion has been overshadowed by a radical parliamentary reform agenda and concerns about government [...]

Because I think it’s a pity that the NBN debate became poisonously partisan, I don’t propose to add anything to the general political noise surrounding it.
      I will say only this: however the various independent and Green members decide to resolve the question of our next government, I would hope that the NBN isn’t a [...]

Optus Wholesale has tipped the Australian MVNO market for significant growth but at the same time remains resolutely committed to its fixed-line business, says acting MD Gavin Williams. And while rival Telstra’s promises to compete more aggressively could auger fierce battles ahead, Williams is confident the wholesale division is well-equipped to return fire.
 
Australia’s fibre future [...]