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Shadow communications minister and former finance boss Nick Minchin has labelled Australia's $4.7 billion taxpayer-funded National Broadband Network (NBN) an uneconomical pipedream, three days before the lucrative tender closes.

In April this year analyst firm Gartner issued a research note on Australian software giant Mincom following the appointment of Greg Clark as its new CEO, saying customers should, after three months, start getting a feel for the company's future direction, which had been “uncertain” since the departure of former CEO Richard Mathews and other senior managers.

Terria has today copped another blow after former consortium member TransACT resigned to pursue its own National Broadband Network (NBN) proposal.

Telstra has continued fuelling the NBN flame wars this week as it threw down a challenge to SingTel Optus in the wake of AAPT’s departure from Terria and Optus CEO Paul O’Sullivan’s comments that his company won’t invest in fixed line services if the government does a “cosy” deal with Telstra for the NBN build.

Telecommunications consortium Terria has remained defiant after AAPT became the second member to withdraw its membership in less than four months.

Telco analyst firm BuddeComm has shot down the federal government's FttN plans the morning after Senator Conroy's office released the final instruments setting out the network information carriers are to provide for the [[ArtId:1404680466|National Broadband Network|new]].

The National Broadband Network (NBN) will likely operate in a monopolistic, utility-based model, according to telecommunication providers.

The federal opposition, telco analysts and industry players have signaled with varying degrees of caution that the level of services, options and pricing that Australian SOHO and SMEs will get out of the National Broadband Network is worryingly unclear.

The federal government published this week submissions it had invited from industry players, public interest groups and concerned individuals on regulatory issues associated with the National Broadband Network process. The government received no less than 80 submissions from a broad range of participants including major telco providers, ISPs, disability access groups, telecommunications consumer and industry groups, telco experts, academics and individuals. Computerworld explored each submission and here we provide you with the key points outlined in each proposal. In most cases, the views are lifted verbatim from the submission.

Mobile carrier Vodafone has launched an aggressive push into the unified communications space with the launch of Vodafone Business One, a partnership with Cisco and BlackBerry to offer unified communications to small and medium businesses.

Telstra has done a back flip on its ADSL2+ broadband wholesale strategy and announced it will allow ISPs access to the network.