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The National Broadband Network will on Friday plug the first East Coast site into the super-fast grid. It is coming a day after NBN Co released the third edition of its Wholesale Broadband Agreement and a discussion paper providing an overview of its planned Special Access Undertaking. It sets out the arrangements for the delivery [...]

Telstra Corporation Ltd has confirmed it has reached agreement with the federal government to progressively disconnect its copper network and participate in the rollout of the national broadband network (NBN). Telstra says the agreement will deliver approximately $11 billion in replacement revenue through disconnection payments, and new revenues through payments for access to its infrastructure. [...]

Telstra’s original broadband proposal was an ‘illusion’ that could never have worked, the boss of the national competition watchdog says. Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) chairman Graeme Samuel said Telstra’s proposal for a fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) broadband network, or fibre to the street corner, was never going to work. ‘I can now summarise that 2006 [...]

A $9 billion deal between Telstra and NBN Co on delivery of the national broadband network is being delayed by speculation over Australia’s political future. The Australian Financial Review reports that NBN Co. and Telstra have drawn up a series of ‘wipeout clauses’ in the event the $36 billion project is cancelled or scaled back [...]