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Turnbull rejects Labor’s NBN subsidy claims
news Shadow Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has strongly denied claims by Labor MPs that the Coalition’s rival National Broadband Network policy would see those in rural areas pay more to access NBN infrastructure, stating that the Coalition would maintain the so-called “cross-subsidy”.
In April the Coalition published its long-awaited rival NBN policy. The policy promises Australians download speeds of between 25Mbps and 100Mbps by the end of 2016 and 50Mbps to 100Mbps by the end of 2019, at a projected reduced total cost of $29.5 billion. Unlike Labor’s NBN project, it will make extensive use of fibre to the node technology (where fibre is rolled out to neighbourhood ‘nodes’ and much of the existing copper network is maintained), but will also utilise fibre to the premises, satellite and fixed wireless solutions in some areas. Like Labor’s own policy, a core feature of the policy is that every Australian will see some upgrade to their infrastructure.
Since the release of the policy, the Coalition has come under continued and sustained fire from Labor MPs, especially Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, with the policy’s critics slamming what many see as a lack of long-term vision in upgrading Australia’s communications infrastructure. One key criticism which has been levelled at the policy is the claim that it will abolish what is termed in financial terms the ‘cross-subsidy’, which sees access fees from users in metropolitan areas used to keep prices down in rural and regional areas. Continue…
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Victoria abandons IT shared services?
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Dramatic internal documents leaked from CenITex this week have revealed that the Victorian State Government plans to turn the IT shared services agency into a ‘broker’, rather than a provider of services, and that the Government is considering outsourcing massive chunks of CenITex’s work.
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Australia’s universities hacked on a regular basis
Not all of the hype around IT security can be believed at the moment — several times when your writer has investigated so-called ‘hacking’ attacks in recent months, we’ve found only low-level script-kiddie-type of behaviour at the bottom of the situation. However, there definitely are some serious break-ins around, as chronicled in this somewhat disturbing article published in late April by citizen journalism site The Citizen.
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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.
