The federal government has finally announced the release of the 'Request for Proposals' (RFP) to build the new high speed National Broadband Network. Up to $4.7 billion has been granted by the government to the successful bidder to build a network which must deliver broadband speeds of 12Mbit...

Got an opinion on the forthcoming new Broadband national network for Australia? The federal Government is giving the Australian public two weeks to have their say on plans for the new $4.7 billion Broadband Network. Communications Minister 'Stephen Conroy' stated that the government values any...

One way or another, the time of deliberation and contemplating a new Australian FTTN network is almost over. Days have turned into months, political parties have changed office, and months will soon turn into years unless something is done shortly. We are still yet to see any real advancement toward...

In a takeover that could effectively provide 200,000 households with telecommunication bundling services that include home phone, mobile phone, TV and Broadband Internet products, the purchase of Neighbourhood Cable by TransACT will also position themselves prominently within the Government's National...

Just like Australia has a new political party in power, we also have a new Communications Minister. Senator Stephen Conroy has been appointed Australia's new Communications Minister under Kevin Rudd's Cabinet lineup. Perhaps Senator Conroy's most important task as the new Minister will be...

In an Election '07 debate held last week on the Sky channel, both major Political Parties went head to head over Australia's Telecommunication issues, namely Broadband. Labor Communication's spokesman 'Stephen Conroy' accused Coalition Communication's Minister 'Helen Coonan'...

Australia's ongoing conjecture over a new Broadband network and what type of technology to use continues with discussion and further research into Broadband over Power Lines (or BPL). With potential bandwidth that can deliver speeds up to 200Mbps, it's no wonder that many Telcos and Utility companies...

One of the Federal Government's Broadband initiative schemes include the 'Australian Broadband Guarantee' program. So what is it and how can it help you? The ABG aims to provide similar Metro Broadband services to those outside these areas who otherwise have insufficient Internet access or...

Back in the early stages of Australian Broadband Internet development, namely 'Cable', we witnessed Telstra and Optus pitted against each other in a race to rollout high speed Cable Broadband networks. Sure one could argue that competition is a 'good thing', although a duopoly may not...

Fibre-to-the-Home is slowly rolling out as an initiative between Telstra and developers is set to provide 1800 homes with a new Broadband services that will support streaming high definition video content by early 2008. The FTTH network will roll out Broadband Internet, Television & Telephone services...