Telstra's public policy and communications representative 'David Quilty' has stated that the telco is not considering legal action against the Federal Government after being booted from the NBN tender process. Speculation has emerged stating that Telstra would seek compensation claims in...

Telstra will not build the $4.7 billion National Broadband Network! The Government's expert panel has made extraordinary headlines by making a decision to reject their non-compliant bid based on a technicality. Telstra was dumped from the process on grounds that it did not meet a section of requirements...

Canadian NBN hopeful 'Axia NetMedia' has finally shed some light on their proposal and ability to construct a national broadband network in Australia after months of keeping a low media profile. In essence, an Axia built broadband network could fundamentally be up to 5 times faster and cost half...

Broadband Internet speeds of 25-50 megabits per second (Mbps) to 65-75% of households, and 12-20Mbps to the remaining 25-35% that cover 80-90 percent of the population. These are figures that can be achieved by Telstra for a national broadband network VDSL2 Fibre to the Curb 'upgrade' (FTTC,...

Telstra has left their NBN bid submission go until literally the eleventh hour before lodging a 'non compliant' proposal. In what seemed like an eternity, the NBN bidding deadline is now closed. Industry analysts say that it comes as no surprise that Telstra lodged a bid, even after they continuously...

Although the current global financial downturn has witnessed the fall of the Australian dollar, Communication Minister Stephen Conroy has rejected claims by Telstra chief financial officer that it would increase costs for the proposed development of the new national broadband network. Mr Conroy argues...

Competition or no competition, that is the answer! The deconstruction of Telstra as a vertically integrated Telecommunication company could be nigh as the push for it's structural separation gains momentum. In a report released by 'Competition Economists Group', who were commissioned by Telstra's...

Due to delay from Telstra in releasing critical network information for all proponents of the FTTN NBN bid to examine, Senator Stephen Conroy was left with no alternative accept to extend the deadline for proposal submissions until 12 weeks after the information is released. Telstra had recently provided...

Although not made from earth, the name TERRiA is rock solid and has been adopted (less the Firma of course) as the new name for the group of carriers formerly known as the 'G9' (or should I say the G8). The consortium is made up from Optus, AAPT, iiNet, Internode, Primus, Macquarie Telecom, SOUL...

There appears to be no stopping the war over Broadband in Australia with a group of ten leading Australia ISP's taking out a full page newspaper advertisement to promote their new website 'fairgobroadband.com.au'. The new site basically takes a shot at potential Telstra pricing if it were...