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• Vodafone gets on NBN trial bandwagon

  Telecommunications provider, Vodafone, has connected 12 customers in Armidale, NSW to the National Broadband Network (NBN) as part of the company’s first trial.
  

• Australian Council funds NBN art projects

  Artists have a chance to show in different mediums what benefits they think the National Broadband Network (NBN) will bring following the Australia Council’s Broadband Arts Initiative..
  

• Emerson Network Power signs $100 million NBN Co deal

  Emerson Network Power has been awarded a one year, $100 million contract to design, supply, install and commission 10 network facility centres for the NBN Co.

• Quigley denies construction tender was flawed

  The company charged with the rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN), NBN Co, has denied its original construction tender process was flawed to begin with and ultimately resulting in the suspension of its procurement process, stranding 14 bidders.
  

• Quigley faces parliamentary onslaught on Alcatel-Lucent scandal

  NBN Co chief executive, Mike Quigley, has faced an onslaught of questions from a joint parliamentary committee around his role in former employer Alcatel-Lucent's bribery scandal.

• Singapore, Stockholm and Seoul ranked top for networking

  Singapore, Stockholm and Seoul are the three top-ranked cities as per the Networked Society City Index presented by the Swedish telecommunications giant Ericsson and management consultancy Arthur D. Little.

• Opposition responds to budget, slams NBN

  Shadow communications minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has continued the Opposition's post budget reply attack on the National Broadband Network (NBN), claiming that billions of dollars will be pumped into the national infrastructure project.

• iiNet praises NBN Co, pans lack of digital economy strategy

  Internet service provider (ISP) iiNet (ASX:IIN) has praised the National Broadband Network (NBN) but has cautioned that the value of the fibre network will be lessened unless the Federal Government issues a national online strategy to give purpose and direction to the project.

• Lack of communication undermining NBN community support

  NBN Co must step up its engagement with relevant government departments and the Australian community if the rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN) or face an increasingly ambivalent public.

• NBN Co primarily an infrastructure company: Chief systems architect

  NBN Co will primarily be an infrastructure, rather than telecommunications company for the next seven to eight years, its chief systems architect has claimed.

• Telstra slaps down direct NBN Co access for utilities

  Telstra has argued that utilities companies should not be able to source carriage services from the NBN Co directly, instead that retail services providers, such as itself, be allowed to continue charging the sector for connectivity.

• Optus calls for NBN volume discounts

  Optus will push for NBN Co to be given the power to offer volume discounts to service providers on the National Broadband Network (NBN) under legislation currently in Senate Committees hearing.

• NBN Co goes on hiring spree

  The NBN Co has dramatically ramped up its hiring activity, posting an average of three new roles a day on its job vacancy site as its rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN) ramps up.

• NBN universal service obligation should cater for wireless internet users: Swinburne University

  Not including wireless broadband under the National Broadband Network's (NBN) universal service obligation (USO) plan means some users won’t be covered if services goes down, Swinburne University Smart Services senior researcher, Scott Rickard, has warned.

• CSIRO wireless broadband over TV becoming a reality

  The CSIRO is moving to attract millions of dollars worth of commercial investment from networking vendors ahead of the first field trial of its in-house broadband wireless over analogue television spectrum technology.