Starting point for Coalition NBN? Anywhere but here

It’s not often I agree with Malcolm Turnbull on broadband policy, but one of his comments at the press conference launching the Coalition’s alternative to Labor’s NBN was spot on.

After 40 years of cellphones, what's next?

There's a scene in the 1985 British TV mini series 'Edge of Darkness' - rated as one of the best and most influential pieces of British television drama ever made (and streets ahead of the 2010 Hollywood remake starring Mel Gibson) - that really dates it.

Big data, big bucks and big ideas

The embattled European Union appears to be looking to big data to contribute to much needed economic salvation, but like the cloud wherein big data lives, the ideas seem rather nebulous.

Optus makes surprise strategic shift to focus on fixed

Optus has announced a significant refocussing on its fixed network business with the loss of almost 300 staff, but Mobile accounts for 66% of revenues and almost 70% of EBITDA.

Storms in the channel as cloud based collaboration gathers momentum

Last October following an informal 'getting to know you' press briefing from the recently appointed head of Cisco for Australia and New Zealand, Richard Kitts, I reported him saying that Cisco was realigning its internal organisation to match the changes impacting its partners, namely providing fewer on-premises solutions and instead moving applications into the cloud.

NBN committee paralysed by party politics

The Joint Committee on the National Broadband Network (JCNBN) has produced its fourth and penultimate report with scathing criticism of the committee from chairman Rob Oakeshott.

So what's wrong with the NBN being unique?

Say what you like about Malcolm Turnbull, his grasp of facts on NBN-like (I use the term loosely) broadband networks and related policies in other countries puts that of most journalists covering the area to shame.