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In November, Singtel Optus will get a new chief executive when the current chief executive of the NBN Co, Stephen Rue, switches seats and takes over the reins of Australia's second biggest telco.

Well-known network expert Dr Mark Gregory of RMIT is making a bid to raise funds for a performance study of mobile regional telecommunications.

The NBN Co's new corporate plan has not attracted much scrutiny, probably due to the fact that the Morrison Government has now announced it will make the network mostly fibre. That has been the debating point all these years: the multi-technology mix network championed by the Coalition, versus the 93% fibre rollout advanced by Labor.

The continued insistence by the director of the Australian Signals Directorate, Mike Burgess, that there is no separation between the 5G core and the radio access network has been termed as "disappointing" by a network expert, who questioned where the evidence was for such a claim.

The privatisation of NBN Co sometime in the future may well end up creating a similar situation like that in the 1990s, when the introduction of new players like Optus and the privatisation of Telstra did not bring about the level of investment needed to keep Australia's infrastructure in pace with growing digital needs, especially in regional areas, a network expert says.

The best option for NBN Co after 2022 — when the network rollout is completed — would be for the government to retain it for at least 10 years as that would bring it the most benefit from its investment, a network expert says.

A respected academic and network expert has written to a number of top politicians proposing the creation of a pilot telecommunications security assurance centre to implement and oversee security procedures for evaluating telecommunications infrastructure and systems.