Coalition wastes more time and money on smear campaign

  The Coalition has forced NBN Co to commit tens of thousands of dollars of taxpayers’ money to respond to a futile and malicious smear campaign against CEO Mike Quigley, the Minister for Broadband, Communication and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy said. Senator Conroy said the...

Ludlam plea to Coalition to debate Telstra bill

Slow progress. Greens Senator Scott Ludlam has issued a plea to Coalition Senators this afternoon to “stop wasting time” that could be spent working through 20 pages of amendments to the Telstra split bill. The plea came after another Read the rest of Ludlam plea to Coalition to debate...

Coalition NBN to “optimise” and lease Telstra network

Market to decide whether you get 100 Mbps. The Coalition will wind up the National Broadband Network, sell off its assets and replace it with a mix of fibre backhaul, wireless and “optimisation” of the existing copper network. It will also not support any proposal to structurally split Telstra....

Coalition hedges fast broadband bet on IT evolution

Together with quarantined spectrum. The Coalition plans to bank on “evolving technology” to see broadband speeds on its “patchwork” NBN increase beyond the quoted minimum of 12 Mbps peak, according to the shadow communications leader. The Liberal-National Party unveiled its...

Coalition vows to scrap $11bn NBN Co-Telstra deal

Industry welcomes agreement. The Federal Opposition will scrap the $11 billion agreement between NBN Co and Telstra should it come to power at the next election, despite widespread industry support for the deal.NBN Co and Telstra signed a financial heads of agreement yesterday that will provide NBN Co with...