Stories by Stephanie McDonald

HP will provide Boral with outsourcing infrastructure, following an announcement by Boral in January this year that it would outsource some IT jobs.

Vodafone will add 750 new jobs to its customer care centre in Tasmania, following $4.85 million in funding from the federal and Tasmanian governments.

Independent MP Rob Oakeshott has lambasted the Joint Committee on the National Broadband Network (JCNBN) for becoming more about party politics than about the roll out of the NBN.

Forty per cent of small business owners believe the National Broadband Network (NBN) will not help their business, according to a Roy Morgan report.

Law firm Piper Alderman has announced plans to serve Vodafone with a class action following years of collecting customer experience stories through its online survey.

M2 Communications’ net profit after tax has jumped 47 per cent to $24.7 million, driven by its Primus acquisition contributing strongly to revenue and earnings, the company reported today in its half-year results.

NBN Co’s CEO Mike Quigley has called for a study from the Communications Alliance to decide what is the best technology to use to roll out high-speed broadband across Australia.

Leighton Holdings has entered into negotiations with the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) to sell 70 per cent of its telco assets, which include Nextgen Networks, Metronode and Infoplex.

Optus has confirmed it will be making further redundancies this year, following jobs cuts totally nearly 1000 jobs in the 12 months to 31 December, 2012.

Telecommunications analyst Paul Budde has called a user pays system for the National Broadband Network (NBN) a "cop out".

Greens Senator Scott Ludlam believes the Coalition’s version of the National Broadband Network (NBN) will end up looking like a “dog’s breakfast” if it wins the federal election in September.

An alternative rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN) could be “doomed to fail” if it used the hybrid fibre coaxial (HFC) network, according to the Competitive Carriers Coalition (CCC).

Shadow communications minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has said a Coalition government would honour existing contracts for the National Broadband Network.

Optus has shed 305 staff over the three months to 31 December, 2012, SingTel announced today.

iiNet has announced bundled business plans for the National Broadband Network (NBN), starting at $79.95 per month on 25Mbps.