Malcolm Turnbull, shadow communications minister, say that he supports fibre to the premises, so long as it’s affordable. That affordability varies from area to area.

Is it possible to trade bandwidth between carriers? Mobsource is trying to do just that, but Geoff Huston thinks the idea is a flash in the pan.

Significantly faster speeds can be achieved by shortening the copper run to a 100 metres or so – just enough to avoid the need to dig up the front lawn.

Copper is showing itself to be more resilient than many would have you believe. So can it be ignored in plans for the NBN?

Can telcos can make money from the cloud? Or are they just dreaming? And how is the cloud virtualising the way networks run.