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• Small businesses don't see benefit in NBN: report

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

• M2 acquisition of Primus pays off

  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 calls for a study into broadband technologies

  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.

• ACCC to come down hard on telcos for 2013

  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has warned telecommunications companies that it will be making sure Australian consumers “get what they pay for” when they sign up to long-term phone or broadband contracts.

• User-pays NBN a 'cop out', analyst says

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

• Coalition's NBN will look like a "dog's breakfast": Ludlam

  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.

• Retaining HFC network for the NBN would stifle competition: Telstra competitors

  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).

• Turnbull: Coalition will honour existing NBN contracts

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

• iiNet launches bundled NBN business plans

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

• Telstra hits 14.4 million domestic mobile customers

  Telstra now has 14.4 million mobile customers across Australia after adding 607,000 for its half year ending December 31, 2012.

• First NBN fibre laid in Strathfield and Homebush in NSW

  Strathfield in New South Wales is one step closer to receiving the National Broadband Network (NBN) following the first fibre optic cable being laid in the area.

• The NBN to help produce A-grade students, study finds

  A new report commissioned by NBN Co has pointed to potential for students to produce higher quality work with the aid of the National Broadband Network (NBN).

• The ACT begins switching on to the NBN

  The National Broadband Network (NBN) has officially been switched on at 4000 premises in Gungahlin, 17km north of Canberra.

• Oakeshott: Coalition's NBN may only save $5 billion

  Independent MP Rob Oakeshott believes based on his own “rough figures”, the Coalition’s version of the National Broadband Network (NBN) would only be $5 billion cheaper than Labor’s $37.4 billion NBN.

• Toowoomba switched on to the NBN

  Around 1700 premises in Toowoomba can now sign up for fibre services on the National Broadband Network (NBN).