Welcome to the Coalition's NBN argument clinic
One of the most enduring characteristics of Tony Abbott's Liberal Party — particularly with reference to its preference for a retrograde NBN — has been its enshrinement as the ‘party of no'.
Full Duplex
A view from the trenches of Australian telecommunications. As the name implies, it’s a two-way conversation and we ask you not to pull any punches ... we won’t.
David Braue
A bulletin board troll in the 1980s, David Braue has been online long enough to remember using the text-based Lynx browser to visit www.ibm.com, one of around 100 Web sites available back then. Telecoms has remained an obsession as he developed ever more complicated schemes to stay in touch with family overseas without going broke. After more than a decade covering Australia's ICT industry - and watching our telcos stumble time and again - he's eager to call them to task.
Latest Posts
Libs kick NBN policy own-goal, but can Labor convert?
By announcing its policy, the Coalition has finally framed the NBN discussion in more realistic terms. It has also invalidated six years of its own arguments that Labor was spending too much on its NBN.
4G: Pretty fly for a wi-fi
If there ever was a case of the proof being in the pudding, it came a few days ago when I sat down at a cafe in Melbourne's Federation Square to do some editing of a magazine proof, then dragged a 24MB PDF file onto my FTP client to upload it.
Lies, damned lies, and NBN rollout statistics
Relying on the NBN Co corporate plan to learn about the actual NBN rollout is like using Life of Pi as a manual for tiger care: It may seem like it has all the answers at first, but if you're not ready to keep an open mind you're going to get eaten alive.
Will Libs use NBN policy launch to disrupt 4G auction?
Could the timing of the Coalition’s policy launch turn April’s digital-dividend auction into a huge mess?
Liberal's 'internet pioneer' misjudging NBN complexity
Malcolm Turnbull may have put his fingers in his ears as difficult FttN questions piled up this week, but if elected, will he really be up to the challenges they present?
As Quigley drops his knitting, is Labor's NBN unravelling?
Does Mike Quigley's surprise support for an FttP-FttN tete-a-tete suggest that NBN Co is preparing for a change of government? Or is it just Labor's way to pre-empt a Coalition CBA?
Weasel maths won't fix coalition's NBN case
For a party that's been beating the drum about transparency in government seemingly forever, the Coalition's election platform is sure looking pretty opaque — and its maths skills are seriously wanting.
Is Telstra's P2P throttling really so bad?
We all know what happens when an entire suburb turns on their split-cycle air conditioners on a 43-degree day. This is the same thing that happens to shared HFC networks when a few fanatics set out to download every piece of data known to man.
Labor's NBN election sweeteners may turn saccharine
Labor is naturally keen to paint its NBN strategy as offering the most for voters, but giving too much, too early could very well backfire on the party by empowering Turnbull's alternative in the election run-up.