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• NBN Co leveraging ex-Telstra Agile skills

  The people tasked with developing key customer portals for NBN Co will tap Agile methods honed in their previous roles at Telstra.

• ICT industry reacts to Labor win and NBN

  The Australian ICT industry has been quick to react to the news that Labor will be able to form government following the support of Independent MPs, Rob Oakshott and Tony Windsor.
  

• Treasury costings scant on NBN details

  You might have expected that the Treasury’s costings of the two major party’s election policies — released to the Independents and the media late yesterday — would contain a fair amount of detail about how much each party’s wildly differing broadband policy would cost.

• NBN Co freezes spending in wake of election uncertainty

  The National Broadband Network Company has put the freeze on some of its spending and will not hire any new staff until parliament has resolved its current deadlock over a new Federal Government.

• Gillard launches NBN in Townsville as debate intensifies

  The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has intensified Labor's election focus on the National Broadband Network through a trip to examine the start of construction of the network in Townsville, as the Coalition continues to face questions from the community about its own broadband vision.

• NBN Co rejects Coalition’s ‘talentless’ cheap shot

  Senior NBN Co executive, Kevin Brown, has used an internal company-wide email to reject the Coalition’s slur that it will be unable to find high-quality staff and is a “stodgy government bureaucracy”.

• Primus Telecom connects first business to the NBN

  The first business customer has been connected to the NBN in Tasmania with Galloway’s Pharmacy in Scottsdale being the first business to sign up to the network.

• IT skills availability less thanks to NBN: report

  Shortages in business analysts and IT support staff have emerged with the expansion of NBN Co being blamed as a contributing factor.

• Westpac IT sourcing expert joins NBN Co

  The National Broadband Network Company has scored another hiring coup, as senior talent from Westpac joins the team to bulk out its skills in dealing with technology vendors. Until June this year Roscoe Fay had been Westpac’s head of Commercial Engagement, a position he had held since only November 2009, when he was promoted to a spot as the top-tier bank’s head of IT sourcing and contracts. Westpac, however, has confirmed the executive has now left the business.
  

• Australia, Japan reach broadband accord

  Australia and Japan appear to have signed a bilateral agreement relating to broadband, with NBN chief executive, Mike Quigley, and other government officials having met with Japanese Communications Minister, Kazuhiro Haraguchi, this week, according to reports.

• NBN Co execs must maintain strong vision and leadership

  As the sun rises, so must it also set. Just as promotions inside the ranks of the National Broadband Network Company (NBN Co) have taken place speedily over the past year since it was formed, so have departures. Most of NBN Co's first rank of hires over the past year — and all of its most senior executives — have remained in their seats since joining the company in its first year of operation. However, several senior staff have left the fledgling fibre company during their first year of employment.

• Federal CIO praises NBN possibilities

  The National Broadband Network has received further endorsement with Australian government CIO, Ann Steward, saying the project will open up “huge opportunities” for service delivery.
  

• Trujillo speechwriter joins NBN Co

  A speechwriter for Telstra's controversial American former chief executive, Sol Trujillo, has joined the company charged with building and operating the National Broadband Network.

• NBN Co nicks Telstra online chief

  The National Broadband Network company has nabbed one of Telstra’s new media executives to lead its own online development work — including enterprise content management and customer relationship management sites.

• NBN Co moves into Melbourne

  The company in charge of building and operating the National Broadband Network will construct its national operations and test facility in Melbourne’s Digital Harbour development. NBN Co announced it would monitor and manage the NBN network and facilities, order service connections and repairs from Melbourne, and allow telcos using the network to test their services.