Tag: DBCDE

The National Broadband Network (NBN) received a funding boost in last night’s Federal Budget, with the Rudd Government allocating additional funding to implement the NBN through to 2014.

Senator Stephen Conroy has been appointed by the United Nations as a founding member of the Broadband Commission for Digital Development.

Stephen Conroy has announced changes to the Australian Broadband Guarantee that will see subsidies dumped in areas served by Telstra’s NextG wireless broadband.

The government’s National Broadband Network draft legislation has gone up on the Department of Broadband, Communications and Digital Economy (DBCDE) website, but demand for the document has caused the DBCDE site to crash. The legislation is contained in two separate bills and are available from the below links when the DBCDE site is back up. […]

Deputy Secretary of the National Broadband Network within the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) Colin Lyons has quit, effective the end of February 2010. The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy today thanked Mr Lyons for his esteemed work and dedication to the Department. “Col has […]