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Pushed for Coalition contingency plan, NBN Co reveals rollout costs
blog A growing amount of information on the costs of NBN Co’s fibre-to-the-premise (FttP) rollout may have brought some long-wanted clarity to the national broadband network (NBN) debate, but calls by NBN joint parliamentary committee chair Rob Oakeshott for a revised NBN Co corporate plan – to account for potential changes due to the election of a Coalition government and implementation of that party’s alternative NBN – confirm the government is facing increased scrutiny as observers push for further transparency in the pre-election NBN debate.
During committee hearings on Friday – where NBN Co debuted detailed cost models (read them here) showing it was costing around $2200 to $2500 per premise to roll out FttP – Oakeshott called for NBN Co to prepare a new corporate plan that would evaluate the potential cost model proposed by the Coalition’s alternative policy. As reported by ZDNet Australia (by all means read the whole story, with more cost numbers, here):
[NBN Co CEO Mike Quigley] said the cost had declined thanks to the shift to the build drop approach that pulls the fibre right up to the side of every premises without first seeking permission from the owner of that premises….NBN Co is preparing a new corporate plan, which is planned to be submitted to government in May. Oakeshott has flagged that he would like NBN Co to create an alternative corporate plan that assesses the Coalition’s alternative NBN. Quigley has said that it would be possible for the company to undertake such a task, but he said the big question would remain over the quality of Telstra’s copper network, which NBN Co had no information on.
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32 years later, CGU replaces insurance IT platform
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Fast-growing Mexican restaurant fast food chain Guzman y Gomez revealed this week that it has upgraded its previous MYOB-based accounting system to a comprehensive business platform from software as a service vendor NetSuite, to help support the chain’s ongoing expansion plans.
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Microsoft finally launches Surface Pro in Australia
Almost 12 months after it first announced the device, Microsoft has finally confirmed that it will launch its Surface Pro family of Windows 8-based tablets in Australia later this month.
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Qantas still finalising Outlook shift
The nation’s largest airline Qantas has revealed that it’s still in the process of migrating its corporate email platform off IBM’s Lotus Notes/Domino platform and onto Microsoft’s Outlook/Exchange system, with the rollout now into its fourth year.
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Curious about what technology-related iniatives came out last night’s Federal Budget? So were we, given that the release of the budget had been being hyped for weeks (months?) by much of the mainstream media as part of its continual fixation on the fraught battle between the various sides of politics. However, unlike previous years, this yaer there wasn’t much in the 2013 Federal Budget to interest technologists.
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