Jason Clare, shadow communications minister, is still convinced fibre to the home is the best technology for NBNCo to be rolling out. He says the Liberal approach is not focused on the future and it is tying one hand behind our back.
In an exclusive interview for CommsDay he talks about the NBN, how it could be improved and why he believes the government approach is wrong. We also discuss metadata and the influence that Telstra still has on the industry.
This week’s program also continues the debate on mobile termination rates and Vodafone’s claims that any further reductions are simply a subsidy to Telstra who, they allege, haven’t passed the reduced costs to fixed to mobile callers. Here what the ACCC had to say when we asked if they stood by their own analysis that showed that reductions were being passed on.
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Senate Hearing Lost in the Detail
The public hearings on the NBN seem to be focusing in detail on the technology and not enough on regulatory reform or the need for a cost benefit analysis.
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Waiting for the video explosion
A new report shows that real-time video accounts for almost half of North American peak-time downloads. So why isn’t it happening here?
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Back to uncertainty
US yields were almost entirely driven by the fall in consumer sentiment says NAB’s Tapas Strickland, reaching a pandemic low. There is a fear from some that this could push back tapering and rate rises by the Fed.
