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• 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".

• Applications open for Digital Dividend

  Applications have opened for the Digital Dividend, with the auction to be held 16 April, 2013.

• Optus trying to 'bargain' in the Digital Dividend, analyst says

  Optus is using all its bargaining chips to try and get the lowest possible price for the 700MHz spectrum on the Digital Dividend, according to an analyst.

• Conroy sets Digital Dividend auction price, ups spectrum limits

  The government appears to have avoided a possibly low-revenue Digital Dividend auction with new rules issued today by the communications minister, Senator Stephen Conroy.

• Conroy launches inquiry into Telstra's Warrnambool fire

  An inquiry has been launched into the fire at a Telstra exchange in Warrnambool, Victoria, which cut off the telco’s fixed line network to 60,000 residents.

• Australian government agencies still reaching for the cloud: Ovum

  Federal and state government agencies in Australia have yet to realise cloud computing’s role in the digital economy and should look to the example set by service providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), according to an Australian analyst.

• NBN Co prepared to use Commonwealth power for the NBN: Conroy

  NBN Co has hit back at claims consumers in NSW would be forced to pay $400 million for the National Broadband Network (NBN).

• Role of TIO needs to grow: Conroy

  The telco industry will continue to be hounded by watchdog groups, such as the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO), to provide better customer service, Senator Conroy has said.

• Brisbane to forge ahead with sewer-based fibre plan

  Brisbane is to receive a new open access fibre to the home network, pitched as complementing the National Broadband Network (NBN), aimed at delivering 100 megabits per second (Mbps) broadband to every home and business within four years.

• 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.

• Conroy promises NBN speeds of up to 1Gbps

  Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, claims the National Broadband Network NBN willreach speeds of up 1Gbps, 10 times faster than the originally announced speeds of up to 100Mbps.

• Abbott is a Luddite, says Conroy

  Communications Minister Stephen Conroy this afternoon opened fire on Tony Abbott, labelling him a “luddite” for not having appearing to have anything to do with his party’s technology policies, on a day in which the Canberra press gallery also criticised the Opposition Leader on the issue.

• 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.

• Industry reacts to Net filter delay

  There were mixed reactions from politicians, industry and lobbyists on Friday to communications minister, Stephen Conroy’s revelation that the Government’s controversial internet filtering legislation would be delayed for a year while a review was held into the Refused Classification category of content which the filter would block.

• Govt proposes extending Telstra fixed-line caps

  The upper-limit on phone call charges, due to expire by July, would instead apply until 2012