Three ways to improve the NBN - a broadband policy for the next federal election

Based on the subject matter canvassed in this issue of the TJA, three initiatives are proposed to stimulate early and wide take-up of the NBN and accelerate its economic and social dividend.

Australia's national research and education network

Chris Hancock was appointed in 2004 as chief executive officer of AARNet, Australia?s Academic Research Network that brought the first Internet connection to the nation in 1989. The not-for-profit AARNet Pty Ltd now manages the Australian Research and Education Network (AREN) providing high capacity infrastructure and services to research, education, training, cultural and scientific institutions. Hancock's previous experience spans senior management positions in the telecommunications sector...

TJA's NBN policy panel

In the lead-up to the Australian federal election in September 2013, there is huge and often bitter controversy over the potential benefits and disadvantages of each policy. TJA has assembled an NBN Policy Panel of four experienced commentators, ranging in their political sympathies from "centre left to centre right" – and none of them uncritical supporters of either policy. Their disciplines span the engineering, economics and marketing of broadband telecommunications.

CommsWire - 12 February 2016

Our ?woeful FTTN NBN?: an open user letter; Another #Telstra outage ? some US hosted web sites affected; ?Netflix tax? to collect GST on overseas, ?digital? purchases; Hey you: Hayu is coming with enough reality SVOD TV to outflix competitors; Current strategies on Internet ?piracy? not working: IA; Australia now on piracy trust list; Warning: Phishing campaign hits mobile banking customers.

Legacy PSTN applications cause confusion

When faced with the need to move their services to the National Broadband Network (NBN), many consumers discover quite late in the process that their new NBN-based service has left their legacy PSTN connect devices behind.

Editorial

Papers cover Universal Service, legacy telecommunications equipment the rollout of Ultra-Fast Broadband in New Zealand. How to ensure that legacy telecommunications equipment is identified, upgraded and connected to the National Broadband Network or replaced. An update on the provision of reliable telecommunications to Antarctica and how Ericsson is celebrating the milestone of being a significant contributor to Australian telecommunications over the past 125 years.

CommsWire - 11 December 2015

Huawei says ?radical? new concept reinvents Network Architecture; Do you want to Belong; TVs still preferred for longer OTT viewing; NBN ignored in govt innovation strategy ? a lost opportunity: analyst; Flight Centre completes ?largest migration in QLD history?; Five times more data leakage on iPhone than Samsung; More mobile data breaches ? 16 companies named and shamed.

CommsWire - 27 November 2015

Andy Penn champions innovation in his 2015 Charles Todd Oration; NBN got what it paid for?will now cost almost half as much again to fix it; Australia links to APAC intelligence centres in fight against cyber crime; More flexibility for smaller service providers with proposed TCP code changes; Australian Telecommunication consumers, since 1870, need heroes; Microsoft Lumia 950/XL ? Australian release 7 December; PayPal joins eftpos payment system; InspireWire

CommsWire - 13 November 2015

Entertainment and NBN drive Optus Growth; NEC Connects Timorese Schools to Internet for the First Time; Everybody?s Doing Cloud; ACMA Partway Through ICT Infrastructure Transformation; Lack of ?Curiosity? Impacts Technology Innovation: Report; D-Link Taipan ? World?s First AC3200 Router; Inspire Wire.

CommsWire - 27 October 2015

Giant wave of super fast broadband to swamp Sydney residents; nbn launches campaign for workers to build network; Public sector dragging chain in response to digital trends; VIDEOS: Google launches new Nexus phones, showcases Android Wear and Android Auto; VIDEO Interview: CA?s APAC CTO talks coming 5G seismic shift; Intel and Oracle mount joint data centre push.