NBN, Telcos Banned From User Discrimination
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December 13, 2011
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Click to enlarge NBN Co and other providers of superfast broadband, including Telstra and Optus, are to be prohibited from discriminating between... Read More
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Click to enlarge “Telecommunications, particularly the National Broadband Network…. are sectors where ACCC oversight will be vigilant in the interests of both... Read More
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Click to enlarge Telstra is now providing business and wholesale customers with Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) connectivity – the next generation... Read More
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Click to enlarge And high hopes for NBN Labor certainly have. Minister for Broadband, Steven Conroy’s ‘National Digital Economy Strategy’ released in... Read More
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