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Exetel changes piracy policy

Internet service provider Exetel announced yesterday it would change the way it forwarded alleged copyright infringement notices to customers.  more

NBN to hit mainland from July

NBN Co CEO Mike Quigley said yesterday in Senate Estimates that his company was on track to start rolling out the national broadband network to certain homes on the mainland in the second half of this year.  more

ISPs still buying ADSL kit

Australian internet service providers are increasing their purchases of ADSL equipment, according to Ericsson, despite the potential for the construction of the National Broadband Network to make such investments irrelevant in the long term.  more

Telecom NZ savings damage prospects

If Telecom NZ wants to have any of the NZ$1.5 billion the government intends to spend on its new broadband network, it had better think long and hard before offshoring 1500 jobs.  more

Conroy behind $450k NBN hire

NBN Co CEO Mike Quigley picked Mike Kaiser, former advisor to Queensland Labor Premier Anna Bligh, as NBN Co government relations and external affairs chief following a suggestion by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy.  more

Brisbane centre to stay: Mincom CEO

Mincom's trimmed headcount has put it under the microscope over the last year; however, the company's CEO Greg Clarke has said that its Brisbane research and development centre "isn't going anywhere" and that a slimmer employee base didn't mean reduced capacity.  more