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In this Issue:

• Featured Site - Kookaburra Air Conditioning
• Fibre deployment in new homes resolved
• NBN to connect those it misses if they can pay
• Turnbull pushes voucher system for NBN rollout
• Quotes of the Day

Featured Site   

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Fibre deployment in new homes resolved   

CONFUSION between Telstra and the NBN Co over who bears responsibility for the installation of the government?s $36 billion fibre network into new housing developments appears to have been resolved after the government was forced to clarify its own rules on the process.

Residential property developers had been plagued by the uncertainty since the ruling was first introduced last year as it failed to properly identify whether Telstra-supplied infrastructure would be suitable for installation of the NBN Co's fibre network.

"We've seen a lot of buck passing between NBN Co and Telstra," said Aaron Gadiel, the chief executive of property development industry group Urban Taskforce.

"These organisations have clearly been feuding with one another and it's been impossible for developers who have been caught in the middle.

"We hope that the new rules will, once-and-for-all, clear up any misunderstanding between the NBN Co and Telstra as to who is responsible for what."

Under the new rules -- which were announced yesterday by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy -- Telstra will be responsible as the communication infrastructure provider of last resort for housing developments of less than 100 lots or units approved after January 1, and it will also be responsible as provider of last resort for developments approved before January 1 that are still awaiting communications infrastructure. AustralianIT June 2011. more >>>

NBN to connect those it misses if they can pay   

NBN Co has started inviting Tasmanian residents living outside the fibre footprint of the National Broadband Network to extend the reach of the fibre cable to their homes so long as they pay the cost of construction.

The new initiative is part of a trial that was first flagged by NBN Co in April with the aim of offering a fibre connection to those in the 7 per cent of premises destined for an existence on the NBN's slower wireless and satellite networks.

However, while the trial will give residents a chance to connect to the superfast fibre network, construction sources say the cost of extending the reach of the fibre network could be too expensive for most to take up.

NBN Co says the costs to connect interested premises will vary based on a range of factors such as geology, distance and available infrastructure. However, construction companies have indicated that those costs could be 10 times higher than the average price to connect homes within the NBN fibre footprint.

Regardless, the trial has rolled on over the past two weeks, with NBN Co sending letters to residents living on the outskirts of select Tasmanian second-release sites -- including Triabunna, Sorell, Deloraine, St Helens and South Hobart -- inviting them to take part in the fibre extension program.

Those who are interested have been instructed to request a quote for the cost of construction from NBN Co before Friday, after which NBN Co will determine the cost of the extension and then request payment within 16 days. Business - with The Wall Street Journal June 2011. more >>>

Turnbull pushes voucher system for NBN rollout   

The federal opposition has flagged a campaign for a voucher-style approach to the rollout of fibre cable in greenfield developments, in an attempt to reduce uncertainty and delay facing developers in the initial phase of the $36 billion National Broadband Network.

Under directions from Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, refined in a ministerial statement released on Wednesday, Telstra has responsibility as a service provider of last resort to lay copper cable in greenfield developments of less than 100 lots, while the NBN Co retains responsibility to provide fibre cable to large developments.

Urban Development Institute of Australia chief Richard Lindsay told a joint parliamentary inquiry into the NBN on Friday there had been "significant confusion" among developers in the past six months on the rollout of fibre cable to greenfield developments.

Opposition communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull said the Coalition was canvassing the option of moving an amendment to the fibre deployment bill that would allow developers to pay an accredited contractor to lay fibre cable in new estates.

The amendment could remove the necessity for Telstra to lay copper cables in small greenfield estates -- which would be ripped up and replaced with fibre when the NBN is progressively built over the next 10 years -- and remove inequalities in broadband services for large and small developments.

Business - with The Wall Street Journal June 2011. more >>>

Quotes of the Day   

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes. James Thurber (1894 - 1961)

A girl phoned me the other day and said "Come on over, there's nobody home." I went over. Nobody was home. Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment. Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)

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