Telstra's rivals get rent cut THE competition regulator has slashed the prices Telstra rivals pay to rent its raw copper wires by between 20 per cent and 35 per cent in the latest blow to the giant telco's business. CSIRO tapped for $42m portal CSIRO has won a deal to build an online interface that will allow Australian citizens to connect with web-based federal government services, including email reminders of appointments with Centrelink and notice of ANZAC Day ceremonies. THE Universal Service Obligation (USO), which ensures all Australians have access to basic phone services, will be reviewed, federal Communications Minister Helen Coonan says.
AFP on data centre drive THE Australian Federal Police service is in the middle of a major effort to consolidate its data centres to cut costs and improve management of its growing storage infrastructure. HUMAN Services Minister Chris Ellison has rejected recommendations to establish a separate Access Card agency to handle governance of the registration process and resolve complaints. Coonan returns fire on Basslink THE federal Government has refuted Tasmanian claims that it has taken control of the Basslink undersea cable, saying the Australia Connected initiative will bolster broadband to the entire state.
Boston to run rule over e-health BOSTON Consulting, architect of the National E-Health Transition Authority, will run its rule over the agency's performance in a statutory review beginning next month. Mixed messages on WiMax A WEEK after the launch of its national broadband strategy, the federal Government is still at odds with the winner of the $958 million tender for regional broadband funding over the capabilities of its chosen WiMax technology. Labor whips up broadband anger LABOR is encouraging losing bidders for the federal Government's now $1 billion rural and regional broadband subsidy to consider a complaint to the Auditor-General over the tenders for the grants.
Canberra, Hobart battle on Basslink TASMANIA has raised concerns about the federal Government's $2 billion rural broadband announcement, saying it has no right to grant access to the Basslink undersea cable. THE Australian Customs Service has inked a telecommunications services contract with Telstra in the latest deal to be struck under the agency's $70 million-a-year outsourcing program. TELSTRA says it will only take part in a tender to build a fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) broadband network if it deems the process to be acceptable.
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