Budget 2016: NBN planning for debt raising but government on hook if it fails
Should the company responsible for the NBN fail to raise enough debt to complete its rollout, the government has said it would pick up the slack.
Should the company responsible for the NBN fail to raise enough debt to complete its rollout, the government has said it would pick up the slack.
A National Operations Centre for the National Broadband Network will be established in Melbourne, bringing 700 jobs with it.
Ed Husic and Kate Lundy had the strongest profiles on ICT issues, but their omission from Bill Shorten's front bench leaves great uncertainty around who will be appointed to hold Turnbull's NBN to account. But will it even matter who is chosen?
Father, brother, cancer survivor, highly intelligent engineer and leader of the "Australian mafia" group of executives who battled their way to the top of global telco supplier Alcatel-Lucent. We present Mike Quigley, executive chairman of the National Broadband Network Company.