Gary McLaren blog posts
“Deep Fibre Broadband for The Networked Economy”
High time for Government to upgrade its expectations of NBN Co
The Minister for Communications, Mr Paul Fletcher, has made it clear that the government will not provide any further equity or debt funding to NBN Co now that the rollout of the network is largely complete – see AFR ($$$). A total of $49 billion has been...
NBN Co peak funding increases to $52.5 billion
A joint media release from NBN Co’s shareholder ministers (Paul Fletcher and Mathias Cormann) on May 12 announced that NBN Co had secured extra funding of $6.1 billion in loans from Australian and international banks. This is $4.1 billion more than the $2.0...
Turnbull’s memoir silent on monopoly’s future
It was “Too early to tell” according to the misunderstood reply from Zhou Enlai (China’s Prime Minister from 1949 to 1976) to Henry Kissinger in the early 1970s on the question of what he thought about the French Revolution. The same can be...
Will Australians buy the “Team Australia” pitch for the Covid tracing app?
The Australian government has announced plans to make a Covid-19 contact tracing app available to all Australians. The privacy and security concerns that inevitably accompany such initiatives are now being debated as the government moves into ‘sales pitch’...
A comparison of NBN Corporate Plans
NBN Co released its latest Corporate Plan on 30 August 2019 with the headline that it is on track to finish the build of the network by June 2020. After a decade in the build phase NBN Co is highlighting how it now plans to move to an operational mode with a focus on...
Boris Johnson’s UK shows Australia the way for fibre broadband
The newly minted UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has doubled down on his campaign promise to ensure all UK households can get full fibre broadband connections by 2025. During his first round of Prime Minister Questions (PMQs), Mr Johnson committed to...
Future of the NBN – Inteview with Gary McLaren
We interview Gary McLaren – former CTO of NBNCo. We all know it’s a massive failure, but is there hope for the future? Click ‘read’ to watch the video interview here.
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