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• Analysts: NBN questions need answering

  ICT analysts have welcomed the Federal Government’s flip flop on the NBN but raised concerns it lacks detail.

• Govt seeks input on broadband regime change

  The federal government has released a regulatory reform discussion paper as part of its announced $43 billion National Broadband Network (NBN).

• NBN experts submit regulatory review to govt

  A six-week review into the regulatory environment for Australia's looming National Broadband Network (NBN) has been completed and received by the federal government.

• Coalition, local government lock horns over broadband

  The Coalition has attacked a scathing report by local governments on the state of broadband in Australia which labelled telecommunications under the Howard government as “extremely sluggish and frustrating”.

• Greens say NBN will flop in private hands

  Greens senator Scott Ludlam has warned the government it will botch the $4.7 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) if it awards the contract to a private company.

• NBN may be running late, but it will be built right: Conroy

  Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has admitted that the National Broadband Network has taken much longer than the government expected, but says the outcome will be worth it.
  

• Libs take Telstra split off the cards

  Australia has missed its chance to split Telstra should it win the National Broadband Network (NBN), according to former finance boss, turned shadow communications minister Nick Minchin.
  

• Terria bites back at Telstra’s monopolist accusations

  The managing director of the Terria consortium, Michael Simmons, hit back at Telstra’s attack on comments he made yesterday regarding Terria’s desire for the government to preclude an alternative National Broadband Network (NBN), labeling it a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

• Opposition calls for separation, likens NBN process to Mugabe politics

  Shadow Communications Minister Bruce Billson yesterday called on the nation’s telecommunications industry to adopt a less combative and more collaborative approach to the NBN debate. He also told attendees at the 2008 Australian Telecommunications Summit that the opposition backed the call for a structurally separate NBN proponent.