Overview: Since the early 2000s and the rapid rise of the Internet and broadband as platforms for the digital economy and online society, successive Australian Governments have grappled with the issue of how to achieve investment in next generation broadband networks capable of supporting future user needs.

On 4 June 2014 the ACCC released a position paper on the design specifications for a possible fixed-line broadband performance monitoring and reporting program in Australia. This paper represents the conclusion to a consultation process commenced in late 2013 and specifies the key attributes that any program the ACCC ultimately implemented would need to have...

The Strategic Review was undertaken by NBN Co over a period of five weeks from 28 October 2013, concluding with the submission of a draft report on 2 December 2013 and, following Board approval, this final report to the Minister for Communications and Minster for Finance on 12 December 2013.

This paper examines the ranking of the sixty earlier NBN release sites in the Socio-Economic Indexes for Area, and Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia.

This paper explores the contexts and motivations that underpin the uptake of Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN). The findings are drawn from a mixed-methods research study of households using surveys and interviews conducted in 2011 and 2012 in an early release site of the NBN rollout. Whilst use and non-use have traditionally been treated as...