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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Latest articles from David Braue
Spectrum fail could help Libs fight Labor's regional NBN
Stephen Conroy is using FttP to court regional centres, with the promise of things to come under Labor. Can he convince the bush that FttN won't help them — or can Turnbull save face with unsold 700MHz spectrum?
Coles Online finds paradise by the dashboard lite
The online retailing arm of Coles has dramatically improved the visibility of its operations with a growing roster of real-time dashboards that have given it unprecedented control over its server loads and customer experience.
Has Turnbull already negotiated FttN NBN concessions with Telstra?
Stephen Conroy and Malcolm Turnbull's online debate proved that there's no love lost between the two NBN visionaries — and that Turnbull's strategy is based on blind optimism about Telstra's generosity.
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