Who cares about Digital Radio? We’ve already got it. It’s called “the internet”.
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Rees on NBN: Gimme gimme gimme!
Rudd waves the billions, up go the hands. None more eagerly than NSW Premier Nathan Rees.
Infrastructure funding plight continues
What Australia got from the federal budget is a list of projects, not a solution to our infrastructure crisis, writes Phillip O’Neill.
Stilgherrian: The Budget? How quaint! They’re just made-up, you know
Need proof that the machinery of Australian government is as outdated as the steam locomotive and the electric telegraph? Look no further than that quaint ritual called the Federal Budget.
Telstra changing of the guards: McGauchie out, Thodley in
In a move indicating that Telstra is keen to soothe relations with government and large shareholders, the well-regarded Catherine Livingstone will also become the new chairman of the company.
Essential Report: Ruddnet China and budget edition
This week’s Essential Report comes in with the primaries running to the ALP 51 (down 3)/34 (up 2), for a two party preferred of 61/39 — the ALP dropping 2 points from the stratospheric highs of 63.
Mungo MacCallum: Turnbull can’t hold a candle to Saint Kevin
Malcolm Turnbull may or may not be an expert in telecommunications, but he is rapidly becoming one on unsaleable products.
Telstra turns from gorilla to pussycat
All it took was one announcement to turn Telstra into Kevin Rudd’s lapdog.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Unemployment … the National Broadband Network … Australia’s rivers … Dymocks … The Beatles …
Unemployment … the National Broadband Network … Australia’s rivers … Dymocks … The Beatles …
Fibre to the nest!
Apparently only eucalypts in marginal electorates will get broadband…
NBN: Everyone’s got an opinion
And also as always misinformation spreads fastest on Twitter. If you thought talkback radio was inane, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!
Mark Scott: NBN will reshape everything
I am not in a position to lecture anyone about what is happening in the media today. I don’t think anyone is, said ABC chief Mark Scott in a speech last night.
Essay: Our children’s standard of living is at stake
Australian political and business leaders need to be able to see the ‘Big Picture’ to be globally competitive, writes Peter Cox.
NBN takes Australian media to its post-Packer epoch
$43b will buy us a genuine media revolution.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Ruddstra and the art of nation building
When it comes to the National Broadband Network, Crikey readers ask: “Where is the vision thing? Who has the vision to build Sydney’s Opera House today?”
RuddNet funding in serious doubt, say analysts
Leading broking and investment firms have cast doubt on the ability of the Federal Government to fund the $43 billion NBN, writes Glenn Dyer.
The broadband slog is just beginning
The Rudd government’s proposal to build its own fibre-to-the-home network poses a slew of questions, writes John Quiggin.
Crikey Says: Australia’s political parties divided again — about time!
In Australia the GFC and has redrawn the lines of engagement, pushing Liberal and Labour back into colours last seen in the great debates of the sixties and seventies, before the narrow free-market orthodoxies of the late twentieth and new 21st century drew both parties to within a hair’s breadth of each other.
Crikey Clarifier: National Broadband Network, Part 2
NBN: wireless broadband, the magic of the “contention ratio” and how the network provider connects to an Internet Service Provider (ISP) to make “the internet industry”.
Essay: Rudd’s NBN recalls the day Billy Hughes went wireless
Nearly ninety years ago, prime minister Billy Hughes announced a public private partnership to construct a nation-building communications network. Sound familiar? Jock Given writes.
NBN: Pricey, but it’s building for the long term
Infrastructure doesn’t have to be profitable in and of itself to be of value, argues Stilgherrian.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: In defence of firefighters
One reader exercises his right of reply to “anonymous and erroneous comments published in Crikey’s ‘Tips and rumours’ this week.”
NBN will be viable … but not Telstra
Getting infrastructure right in Australia is hard. It’s easy to bag politicians but the maths is always against them, writes Bernard Keane.
Video of the Day: Back to the Future: 1960s take on 1990s tech
Forget the leap of a national broadband network. Take a look 1990s telecommunications — as envisaged by 1960s Britain. Nice forward fashion too!
The government’s infrastructure gamble
Even though I applaud the idea of a national broadband network, I’m wary that a large scale, long-term project like this may end up being out of date not long after construction of the network is finished.
