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Whether they were intended to be such or not, shadow communications minister Malcolm Turnbull's pronouncements this week on the future of the NBN under a Coalition Government have been seized on and reported and analysed as being a major announcement of Coalition policy. If that was the intent, the way in which they were delivered was somewhat curious.

The Federal Government's Convergence Review Committee has launched online discussion pages to promote public engagement with its framing paper.

Most forecasts for mobile broadband data are for exponential growth driven by increasingly smart devices and video services. The ACMA, however expects demand to peak in 2018 by which time short range wireless technologies accessing fibre to the premises networks will be easing demand for spectrum.

There's a squabble going on between Stephen Conroy, the Federal Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, and Simon Hackett, managing director of Internode.

Those of us old enough still remember the controversy over the building of the Sydney Opera House, which ended up costing eight times the original budget. The NBN building project is orders of magnitude larger than the Opera House so why should we believe that politically motivated cost estimates would be within a bull's roar of the real price?

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) says that broadband access is no longer a luxury but a necessity that will be crucial to every country's economic, social and political growth, and it says there is also the need for proactive national broadband planning by every government.

If you want to have your say about some of the policies governing the .au namespace, auDA is especially open to your comments until January.

The GSMA has released research that claims to show huge economic gains if all nations in Asian Pacific allocate the 700MHz 'digital dividend' spectrum to mobile services.

The International Telecommunication Union has called for access to broadband networks to be a basic civil right and has challenged the world's leaders to ensure that more than half of all the world's people have access to broadband networks by 2015.

The Coalition NBN policy's total focus on the 'how' of broadband rather than the 'why' has left its leader in the unenviable position of trying to justify the choice of technologies that he does not understand and has marginalised the NBN as an election issue.

Work has begun on the Victorian Government's next ICT Industry Plan. Online submissions are welcomed.

The Federal Government has released a position paper on the provision of fibre networks on greenfields housing developments.

Google has followed through on its threat to stop censoring search results for users in China.

So every Brit will get a web page of their own, and web access by way of 'super-fast' broadband in the next few years according to PM Gordon Brown. Industry insiders remain to be convinced...

The proposal for a .XXX global top-level domain is back on the agenda following the deliberations of an ICANN review panel.