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Warrnambool Exchange Fire Consumer Impact Analysis Presentation

Tomorrow I will be presenting the draft outcomes of the Warrnambool Exchange Fire Consumer Impact Analysis review as a member of the RMIT University research team.

Everyone is welcome.

Presentation: 15 November 2013 in the Hamilton Performing Arts Centre, 113 Brown St, Hamilton 3300 at 12pm and Warrnambool Exchange, Koroit St, Warrnambool 3280 at 4pm

NBN delivery cannot be guaranteed

Recently we learned that telcos including iiNet, its subsidiaries and other small telcos have delayed signing NBN Co's new wholesale agreement due to delays provisioning services, fixing faults and attending customer meetings. The house of cards created by NBN Co's outsourced construction model is now the communication minister Malcolm Turnbulls problem and he is under pressure to get the problem fixed.

Warrnambool Exchange Fire Consumer and Social Impact Analysis Report

The RMIT University research team led by Dr Kaye Scholfield and Dr Mark A Gregory have released a report titled "Warrnambool Exchange Fire Consumer and Social Impact Analysis." The report includes survival guides for government (pdf), business (pdf) and families (pdf).

Keeping the lid on NBN discontent

No news is good news for Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull in his efforts to keep a lid on simmering discontent. The NBN's slipping behind further and further and what Australians are being provided for $43 billion is looking rather shallow. What is happening is discussed in Business Spectator and the picture is bleak.

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No fix to NBN construction pain

In Business Spectator the discussion is on how the rollout of the National Broadband Network continues at a sedate speed and the litany of excuses from NBN’s management only further highlights why the multi-technology mix (MTM) approach was always fraught with danger. Recently, NBN boss Bill Morrow made a few interesting, some might say injudicious, observations about the rollout of the network and the role the previous NBN management had played in the problematic constr

The new PM and the NBN. ‘An expensive lemon’

In Business Spectator the discussion is on how the rollout of the National Broadband Network continues at a sedate speed and the litany of excuses from NBN’s management only further highlights why the multi-technology mix (MTM) approach was always fraught with danger. Recently, NBN boss Bill Morrow made a few interesting, some might say injudicious, observations about the rollout of the network and the role the previous NBN management had played in the problematic constr

Can NBN withstand the pressure test?

The Coalition government's under increasing pressure to drop FTTN and a recent Senate Select hearing into the NBN heard from a range of organisations about why the NBN needs to be built with the future in mind. In The Australian the Senate hearing events are unpacked.

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