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  • Tech Wired applies for Panel of Experts’ National Broadband Network Report under Freedom of Information laws
  • Receives costings of $3,631.99 to pursue findings
  • iiNet approaches Tech Wired to cover costs
  • Tech Wired accepts offer; informs DBCDE
  • Tech Wired learns Conroy’s consulting bills suggest the Rudd Government is going to take spending in this area to a stunning new level”
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    Steve Dalby, iiNet's Chief Regulatory Officer

    After talks with iiNet’s Chief Regulatory Officer, Steve Dalby, iiNet has agreed to cover the costs for Tech Wired Australia to continue to pursue the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) under the Freedom of Information Act for documents it wont release before tendering, relating to the Nation’s National 4.7 billion dollar Broadband Network.

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    Axel Bruns has an interesting piece up at Snurb pointing out that the time of DVRs such as TiVo may have already passed. Read more

    Tech Wired Australia interviews Peter Black, a law lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology.

    Peter and I talk about iiNet being sued by the television and film industry for allegedly authorising copyright infringement.

    Host: Ben Grubb

    Guest: Peter Black

     
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