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• CeBIT 2012: Conroy spruiks success of Digital Economy strategy

  Communications Minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, has talked up the success of the Digital Economy Strategy he launched last year during his address to CeBIT Australia 2012, Sydney.

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  Turnbull: Nearly 110,000 homes waiting for NBN fibre

  Malcolm Turnbull has said nearly 110,000 households in greenfield estates are on the NBN Co waiting list to receive fibre connections.

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  New homes dudded over NBN: Turnbull

  Opposition communications spokesman, Malcolm Turnbull, says the government's "prejudice" against the private sector left about 35,000 new homes connected to copper instead of fibre cable last year.

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  Conroy turns the attack to Hockey

  Senator Stephen Conroy has slammed Joe Hockey for asserting the NBN should be treated as a budgetary cost.

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  NBN service plans won't cost consumers more: Conroy

  Senator Stephen Conroy has slammed Opposition leader Tony Abbott’s comments that National Broadband Network (NBN) services could cost consumers more than current ADSL plans, saying Abbott was “plain wrong” “and that he should “check his facts.”

• Bourke one step closer to NBN - after a three-year wait

  Bourke will be home to a satellite ground station to help it get on-board the National Broadband Network (NBN) – but it’s going to have to wait three years until it is operational.

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  Cloud to add $3b to Aus economy: KPMG

  A new report by accounting firm KPMG takes a look at the Cloud in Australia and estimates more than $3 billion could be added to the nation’s annual gross domestic product (GDP) in 10 years, as well as drive growth of start-ups and small businesses.

• Monday Grok: Price inquiry — what can the government really do?

  Australian software consumers have been getting royally corn holed by vendors like Microsoft and Adobe for years and still are. There’s one simple reason why the suppliers price gouge — because they can.

• ACMA releases draft rules for spectrum auction

  The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) have issued a set of draft rules to govern the upcoming ‘Digital Dividend’ auction for the reallocation of Australia’s 700MHz and 2.5GHz spectrum.

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  3.5m premises to get NBN by 2015

  NBN Co has detailed a three-year plan to roll out the National Broadband Network (NBN) to 3.5 million premises across Australia by June 2015.

• NBN announces 3-year rollout plan

  NBN Co Ltd boss, Mike Quigley, says the launch of the three-year rollout schedule for the high speed National Broadband Network (NBN) is a "turning point" for the federal government project.

• Conroy named a community visionary

  Federal Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, who is overseeing the government's $36 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) project, has received an award from a New York-based think tank.

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  Australia’s first national cyber security competition launched

  A cyber security competition aimed at enticing ICT university students into the information security industry has been unveiled by the Gillard government.

• Government needs to address Cloud demand, concerns: Conroy

  Cloud computing has the potential to benefit federal and state governments, but issues such as privacy need to be addressed first, according to federal communications minister, Stephen Conroy.

• Government sets spectrum auction limits

  The federal government has taken steps to ensure no single telecommunication company will have an unfair advantage in an upcoming auction of spectrum for mobile device providers.