How cyber-crime like the Sony Hack will affect Australian business in 2015
The cyber-attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment in late November is not the first time that the Sony Corporation has been a target for cyber-criminals and if anything is to be learned from the attacks on Sony is that corporations are not taking cyber-security seriously.
Turnbull's NBN house of cards
The NBN review report has been prepared to justify the Coalition's NBN approach, though it is not standing up to scrutiny. The new NBN Co management team is struggling to stay on message with the Minister for Communications Malcolm Turnbull. The new NBN 2.0 is to be built using a multi-technology approach and today in Technology Spectator the NBN house of cards highlights the extent of the problems with NBN 2.0 and the multitude of ways the project can fail.
The year the NBN stood still
2014 has been a difficult year for the NBN and there’s no doubt that Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull will be revelling in the pyrrhic victories he has secured this year. In Business Spectator the year that was 2014 for the NBN is discussed and outcomes identified. NBN Co's engineers have been working hard to prepare for the beginning of the multi-technology mix rollout.
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Can Australian Telecommunications become more affordable?
The general consensus at the annual Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) national conferenceis was that the cost of telecommunications can be more affordable and the hows and why are discussed in Business Spectator to show that the consumer perspective is an important view that Telcos and the government regulator shou
NBN Co's time and cost blowouts and who is to blame
NBN Co's admission of a cost blowout up to $15 billion is just the beginning of the bad news expected over the next year and how this is going to slow down the NBN rollout is discussed in Business Spectator including the concern over NBN Co's management approach to providing Australia with a second rate obsolete copper access network.
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NBN First Satellite Launch 1 October
Having sought funding to attend the launch of the first of the NBN's satellites from NBN Co and other companies, I'll unfortunately need to follow the Sky Muster launch from Melbourne. Thankfully answers to questions that I have about the satellite and launch will be sought by a couple of the people attending the launch.