Gary McLaren blog posts

“It [fibre] is basic infrastructure for a good life”. So ends a new book by Susan Crawford, a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, on the plight of delivering better broadband for Americans. The book “Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution and Why...

As we enter 2019 there will likely be increasing excitement about the prospects of a new Labor government taking control of the NBN policy and fixing the mistakes of the last 5 years of Coalition’s NBN policy. For example on New Years’ Day the Australian Financial...

The possible write-down of taxpayer’s investment in NBN Co is again making news. The Labor Opposition have again put a spotlight on this issue by challenging the chairman of NBN Co, Ziggy Switkowski, to justify his statements that no write-down is necessary at...

One of the first jobs Bill Morrow undertook when he became CEO of NBN Co in April 2014 was to set some goals for the company to provide focus for a work force that was understandably looking for some direction after the change of government the year before. I was on...

NBN Co released its Corporate Plan for the period FY19 to FY22 on 31 August 2018 with headlines that implied that everything is still on target to be completed in 2020. The network is forecast to be ready to connect 11.7 million premises with 8.1 million premises...

Below is the end of financial year 2018 snapshot for the NBN rollout. Rollout Progress as of 28 June 2018...