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• Stroke patients to get Wii therapy over the NBN

  The NBN Co has begun selling the National Broadband Network’s (NBN) benefit to the health sector, announcing that stroke patients will shortly receive Wii-based therapy over the network.

• NBN Co selects Alcatel-Lucent as key GPON equipment supplier

  NBN Co has selected Alcatel-Lucent as the initial strategic supplier for the Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) and Ethernet Aggregation equipment required to operate the fibre access network.

• Former Sun exec joins NBN Co

  Former Broadcast Australia chief operating officer and Sun Microsystems managing director, Jim Hassell, has joined the senior executive team of NBN Co as head of product development and sales.

• NBN Co ponders capability statements

  NBN Co, the company in charge of the Federal Government’s $43 billion National Broadband Network, has announced it received many “high-quality” responses to its request for capability statements for the supply of infrastructure.

• IDC Telco Predictions 2010

  IDC has released its 2010 telco market predictions making the pretty safe bets that the Australian market will make a stable recover in 2010 and that the NBN Co and Telstra strike a deal. But believes that there’ll be no NBN fibre rollout on the mainland during the year.

• NBN Co picks CIO and government relations officer

  The company responsible for rolling out the National Broadband Network has appointed two new senior staff. NBN Co announced former British Telecom employee and current AAPT consultant, Claire Rawlins, will take on the role of chief information officer (CIO), while the Queensland premier's chief of staff, Mike Kaiser, will become principal for government relations and external affairs.

• NBN headquarters could be distributed between cities

  An indication that the headquartering functions for the National Broadband Network (NBN) could be distributed between vying major cities has been welcomed by industry representatives.