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.
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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'.
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.
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