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Crikey readers talk the NBN v the Coalition’s broadband plan and whether we are being too harsh on Julia Gillard.

Senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne’s Department of Accounting Dr Alison Parkes takes a look at framing, or the way the media presents information. It could give you a whole new outlook on life.

More and more homes in the US are ditching the TV and consuming video content online or via tablets or smartphones. Will Australia follow suit? And if so, what would that mean for our new national broadband?

The NBN is experiencing rollout delays and cost blowouts now, but as the project develops and efficiencies kick in these will be almost immaterial by the end of the 10-year project — assuming it survives.

With all the foundations now in place, NBN Co is ready to roll. Finally, says telecommunications researcher Paul Budde, Australia can look forward to an exciting digital future.

Malcolm Turnbull is portraying Thursday’s Productivity Commission report on the NBN Co’s greenfield fibre rollouts as proof the National Broadband Network is anti-competitive and uncommercial. He’s massively overstating the case. Mostly.

The prospect of being connected to this high-speed broadband network in the next few months sent me scurrying for information, writes Amanda Gearing, a freelance journalist in Toowoomba.

Telstra’s launch of 4G yesterday is part of the telecommunication giant’s plan to cement itself in the eyes of Australians as the carrier with the fastest and biggest network, writes Charis Palmer.

With the National Broadband Network retail pricing announced by iiNet yesterday, it becomes clear that claiming the NBN is too expensive, a bargain, or little-bear just right for the punters is a tad premature.

When it comes to cloud computing will Australia aspire to its once-traditional back-office role?

So far April hasn’t been a great month for the National Broadband Network. But communications minister Stephen Conroy isn’t worried — he says it’s all “hysteria”.

Optus’ CEO is frustrated by the debate around the NBN. The telecommunications industry faces a “critical period”, he says, but the discussion is little more than a polarised argument about whether to build it.

Egypt’s recent internet shut-down and Australia’s NBN have one thing in common: ultimately their success or failure depended — or will depend — not on technology but on people, a US telecommunications policy advocate says.