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Doug Campbell is to step down from his roles as executive chairman of NBN Tasmania and NBN Co director at the end of the year and retire.

NBN Company chief financial officer Jean-Pascal Beaufret has been appointed to the board of NBN Tasmania as the operational management of the two companies become more closely aligned.

The Tasmanian Government continued to work closely with the Commonwealth on the National Broadband Network project, and the roll-out timetable would be unaffected by the changed ownership plans for the local NBN company, Premier David Bartlett has told iTWire.

The Federal Government's failure to consumate its planned NBN Tasmania joint-venture with the Tasmania Government and the state-owned utility Aurora Energy demonstrated the state's National Broadband Network roll-out was a shambles, Liberal Senator Guy Barnett says.

The Federal Government has killed off its NBN Tasmania joint-venture plan, saying the Commonwealth would proceed with the state's National Broadband Network roll-out alone.

A $100 million "equity injection" into the NBN Tasmania Company earmarked to fund its Stage Three roll-out of fibre to major metropolitan areas has still not reached the company, nearly six weeks after it was announced by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy.