Stacking the deck: NBN Review filled with Turnbull cronies NBN Co’s Strategic Review will be conducted by a cluster of ex-Telstra executives with prior personal connections to Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull and the Liberal Party, supported by external consultants. Does anyone still believe the result will be independent, objective and ‘technology-neutral’? Fiery telco expert with a fibre passion: Michelle Rowland gets a licence to terminate Turnbull With a lengthy history as a telco regulatory lawyer and a passion for the National Broadband Network bordering on an obsession, Labor MP Michelle Rowland is well-qualified indeed to be Labor’s Shadow Assistant Communications Minister. But it’s the Member for Greenway’s penchant for taking Malcolm Turnbull down a notch or five on the floor of the House of Representatives that will have pro-fibre NBN fanbois falling in love with her. Linux on Australia’s desktops: Are the stars aligning again? The phrase “Linux desktop” has been anathema to Australian organisations for almost a decade, after a brief flurry of interest in the platform back in 2004. But a massive successful deployment at France’s national police force and the growing popularity of Software as a Service applications could put Tux back on the corporate radar. It’s official: Labor’s NBN project has failed The National Broadband Network project has abjectly failed every construction target ever set for it, its rollout has slowed to a deadly slow crawl, and even its founder, former Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, has admitted the previous Labor Government drastically underestimated the amount of work involved in delivering it. It’s time to admit NBN version 2.0 is dead and that the project desperately needs to be radically reshaped yet again. A decade of neglect: Why Tasmania deserves a FTTP rollout Malcolm Turnbull never specifically promised Tasmanians that the all-fibre NBN rollout in the state would be completed as originally planned. But if there is any one state in Australia that deserves to have a universal Fibre to the Premises National Broadband Network, it’s the Apple Isle, which has been a perpetual broadband backwater for the past decade and more. Hypocrisy: Turnbull’s NBN board choices belie his Labor criticism Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has spent much of the past year telling anybody who will listen that NBN Co’s board needs more directors with actual telco network construction experience. Yet the candidates he’s appointed or been reported to have approached so far for board positions cannot claim that background, and several have close ties to Turnbull’s own Liberal Party.

Source: delimiter.com.au