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Almost a year ago (29th of March 2010) NBN issued a Request for Capability Statement for the construction of its network. In June the 23rd after assessing the applications filled 21 companies were invited to bid for the tender. Nevertheless, a few days ago, NBN Co announced that it withdraws the tender, the head of [...]
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Telstra’s deal with the NBN Co to lease/wholesale a part of the incumbent’s infrastructure to the government-led project was discussed today at Telstra’s annual general meeting. The deal is expected to bring wider and cost efficient underground deployments of NBN while it is estimated to send 11bn of cash to Telstra’s deposits. The financial magnitude [...]
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The recent Australian elections resulted in a tight win by the Labour party. Presumably Labor had to cut a deal with the 2 rural independent MPs to form a Government. This deal provided (according to reports from the down under) that NBN will start deployments in rural areas with metropolitan centers following later. This is [...]
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Broadband has been increasingly influential to political life and political decision-making across the globe. This is no secret. A number of municipalities and city councils in USA campaigned, some of them far from conservatively, to attract Google’s attention for an FTTH pilot. City officials in Europe and US include broadband related issues in their political [...]
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In an interesting discussion about the cost of the NBN (National Broadband Network) during the Cebit Australia 2010 some part of the focus kept on the opportunity cost of not building the network, especially in terms of competitive disadvantage that Australia would suffer in comparison to other national economies. In a similar and more provocative [...]
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In cold blood, the Australian Government threw away the proposals filed for its NBN RfP and went for plan B. While everyone was expecting the announcement of the winning consortium, any day soon, Australian Government concluded that none of the proposals fitted Government’s long-term plans and decided to “toss” a few extra dozens of billions [...]
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In an interview published today at TelecomTV, Australian Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy discusses Australia’s national strategy for broadband. The bidding process for the Australian NGN is completing at the end of this year. Watch the interview at the end of the post. Here’s the interview’s highlights: The project [...]
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Costas Troulos is a telecoms analyst and passionately covers wireline broadband and related developments in Greece and the rest of the world. For the last 4 years he has been involved in several consulting and research projects on public broadband investments, FTTH and metro network deployments. His is interested in everything related to telecom regulation/policy, national strategies and NGN business models.
