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Joint Standing Committee on the National Broadband Network
Footnotes
Report on the Committee’s Visit to New Zealand - Official Visit Program
[1]
Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, Ultra Fast Broadband
Initiative, Government Policy Statement, Extract from New Zealand Gazette, 13
October 2011, No. 155, p. 4440, <www.med.govt.nz>
[2]
Crown Fibre Holdings, Ultra Fast Broadband Update: Briefing to Australian
National Broadband Network Committee, 25 September 2012, p. 3.
[3]
Both initiatives include a combination of fibre-to-the-premise and
fibre-to-the-node as well as wireless connections.
[4]
Fibre-to-the-home and fibre-to-the-premise are interchangeable terms
where fibre is deployed directly to each premise or home.
[5]
Fibre-to-the-node allows for fibre to be deployed to centrally located
cabinets off which premises may then be connected.
[6]
Public Private Partnerships are ‘long-term contracts for the delivery of
a service, where the provision of the service requires the construction of a
facility or asset, or the enhancement of an existing facility. The private
sector partner finances and builds the facility, operates it to provide the
service and usually transfers control of it to the public sector at the end of
the contract.’ The Treasury, Guidance for Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in
New Zealand, October 2009, p. 1. Governments tend to favour public private
partnerships to assist in funding large scale projects and mitigate associated short
term project risks.
[7]
Crown Fibre Holdings was formed as a ‘Crown-Owned company’ under the
Companies Act 1993. It is listed on the fourth schedule of the Public Finance
Act 1989 and so is subject to the Crown Entities Act 2004 requirements to
prepare a statement of intent and an annual report.
[8]
Crown Fibre Holding’s function is to ensure the implementation of the
Government’s UFB policy: by managing contracts, monitoring of crown
investments, and supporting Government policy objectives. Crown Fibre Holdings,
Ultra Fast Broadband Update: Briefing to Australian National Broadband Network
Committee, 25 September 2012, p. 5.
[9]
Chorus Limited was the network arm of Telecom New Zealand prior to the
structural separation of Telecom New Zealand in December 2011
[10]
Crown Fibre Holdings, Crown Partners, <www.crownfibre.govt.nz>.
[11]
Telecom New Zealand was the largest telecommunications provider in New
Zealand
[12]
Crown Fibre Holdings, <www.crownfibre.govt.nz>.
[13]
Crown Fibre Holdings, Where and When is UFB being delivered?, <www.crownfibre.govt.nz>.
[14]
Crown Fibre Holdings, Where and When is UFB being delivered?,
<www.crownfibre.govt.nz>.
[15]
Crown Fibre Holdings, Ultra Fast Broadband Update: Briefing to Australian
National Broadband Network Committee, 25 September 2012, p. 16.
[16]
Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, Stakeholder Engagement on
the RBI Rollout, <www.med.govt.nz>.
[17]
Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, Stakeholder Engagement on
the RBI Rollout, <www.med.govt.nz>.
[18]
Structural separation ‘demands management of network assets through a
corporate entity that is distinct from the company that provides retail
service. It implies greater complexity, costs and challenges to the
coordination of network investment than functional separation which generally
marked by ... the creation of divisions and ‘the need for Chinese Walls between
network provision and the retailing of services within one company.’ Morgan K,
2008, The European Debate About Structural Separation: Possible Implications
for Australia, Telecommunications Journal of Australia, Vol 58, No. 1, Monash
University Press.
[19]
Telecom NZ proposed its structural separation ‘to satisfy a government
requirement that its partners in a NZ$1.35 billion broadband project could not
also sell telecommunications services.’ Withers, T, 2011, Telecom NZ
Shareholders Approve Demerger of Chorus Unit, Bloomberg, 26 October.
[20]
Telecom NZ, Stock Exchange Announcement, Telecom to Demerge Chorus, 31
August 2011.
[21]
Under the demerger of Telecom New Zealand shareholders received one share
in Chorus Limited for every five shares of Telecom NZ held. Telecom NZ,
Demerger Presentation, September 2011, p. 9.
[22]
Under the public private partnership arrangement, Telecom NZ is responsible
for delivering fast internet in 24 of the 33 fibre selected regions including Wellington
and Auckland which accounts for 70 per cent of New Zealand, covering 830 900
premises. Telecom NZ, Demerger Presentation, September 2011, p. 7.
[23]
Telecom NZ, Demerger Presentation, September 2011, p. 7.
[24]
Withers, T, 2011, Telecom NZ Shareholders Approve Demerger of Chorus Unit,
Bloomberg, 26 October.
[25]
Telecom NZ, Demerger Presentation, September 2011, pp 11 and 19 and Telecom
NZ, Stock Exchange Announcement, Telecom to Demerge Chorus, 31 August 2011, p.
2.
[26]
Crown Fibre Holdings, Ultra Fast Broadband Update: Briefing to Australian
National Broadband Network Committee, 25 September 2012, p. 5.
[27]
Crown Fibre Holdings, Ultra Fast Broadband Update: Briefing to Australian
National Broadband Network Committee, 25 September 2012, p. 5.
Chapter 1 Introduction
[1]
The NBN Co Corporate Plan 2012-2015 released on 8 August 2012 replaces
the NBN Co Corporate Plan 2011-2013 released 20 December 2010.
[2]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012-2015, August 2012, p. 10.
[3]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012-2015, August 2012, p. 12.
[4]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012-2015, August 2012, pp 12 and 13.
[5]
ACCC, 2012, ACCC Receives New NBN Co Special Access Undertaking, media
release, 28 September.
[6]
The Shareholder Ministers are Senator the Hon Stephen Conroy, Minister
for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy and Senator the Hon Penny
Wong, Minister for Finance and Deregulation.
[7]
These are the committee’s First, Second and Third Reports.
[8]
Correspondence from the DBCDE dated and received 13 November 2012.
Chapter 2 Performance Reporting
[1]
Shareholder Ministers, ‘Performance Report to 30 June 2012’, Submission
13, p. 3.
[2]
Shareholder Ministers, ‘Performance Report to 30 June 2012’, Submission
13, p. 36.
[3]
NBN Co, Submission 7.10, Answer to Question on Notice No. 6.
[4]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012-2015, August 2012, p. 36.
[5]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012-2015, August 2012, p. 36.
[6]
Mr Mike Quigley, CEO, NBN Co, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 30
October 2012, p. 19.
[7]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012-2015, August 2012, p. 35.
[8]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012-2015, August 2012, p. 35.
[9]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012-2015, August 2012, p. 2.
[10]
Mr Quigley, NBN Co, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 30 October 2012, p.
24.
[11]
Mr Quigley, NBN Co, Transcript of Evidence, Sydney, 16 April 2012, pp
47-48.
[12]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2011-2013, December 2010, Exhibit 1.1, p. 15.
[13]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012-2015, December 2010, Exhibit 5-1, p. 36.
[14]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2011-13, December 2010, Exhibit 1.2, p. 15.
[15]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012-2015, August 2012, Exhibit 5-2, p. 36.
[16]
These reasons are outlined in Chapter 1 of the report on page 1.
[17]
Mr Quigley, NBN Co, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 30 October 2012, p.
23.
[18]
Mr Rod Sims, Chairman, ACCC, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 14 August
2012, p. 2.
[19]
Mr Quigley, NBN Co, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 30 October 2012, pp
22-23.
[20]
Construction commenced represents contract instructions have been issued
together with the initial Network Design Document so that construction partners
can commence work on the detailed design, field instructions and rodding/roping
activities in a Fibre Serving Area Module (FSAM). This is followed by the
release of a rollout map for the FSAM on the NBN Co website showing the
coverage areas for that FSAM and the estimated number of premises to be
passed/covered. Shareholder Ministers, ‘Performance Report to 30 June 2012, Submission 13,
p. 5.
[21]
The NBN Co targets for premises or lots passed/covered are rounded to the
nearest thousand. NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012-2015, August 2012, p. 36.
[22]
The NBN Co targets for premises activated are rounded to the nearest
thousand where number of premises or lots exceeds 1000. NBN Co, Corporate
Plan 2012-2015, August 2012, p. 36.
[23]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012-2015, August 2012, Exhibit 5-3, p. 37.
[24]
NBN Co, 2013, 34 500 Australian homes and businesses now using the NBN,
media release, 29 January.
[25]
Mr Robin Payne, Chief Financial Officer, NBN Co, Transcript of Evidence,
Canberra 30 October 2012, p. 24.
[26]
DBCDE, Submission 14, answer to question on notice No. 88.
[27]
NBN Co, Annual Report 2011-2012, p. 101.
[28]
NBN Co, Annual Report 2011-2012, p. 101.
[29]
NBN Co, Annual Report 2011-2012, p. 101.
[30]
Shareholder Ministers, ‘Performance Report to 30 June 2012’, Submission
13, p. 31.
[31]
NBN Co, Annual Report 2011-2012, p. 58.
[32]
NBN Co, Annual Report 2011-2012, p. 18 and Shareholder Ministers,
‘Performance Report to 30 June 2012’, Submission 13, p. 27.
[33]
NBN Co, Annual Report 2010-2011, p. 10.
[34]
NBN Co, Annual Report 2011-2012, p. 18 and Shareholder Ministers,
‘Performance Report to 30 June 2012’, Submission 13, p. 27.
[35]
NBN Co, Annual Report 2010-2011, p. 10
[36]
NBN Co, Annual Report 2011-2012, p. 18 and Shareholder Ministers,
‘Performance Report to 30 June 2012’, Submission 13, p. 27.
[37]
NBN Co, Annual Report 2010-2011, p. 10.
[38]
NBN Co, Annual Report 2011-2012, p. 58 and Shareholder Ministers,
‘Performance Report to 30 June 2012, Submission 13, p. 30.
[39]
NBN Co, Annual Report 2011-2012, p. 58.
[40]
Mr Quigley, NBN Co, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 30 October 2012, p.
24.
[41]
NBN Co, Submission 7.12, Answer to Question on Notice No. 12.
[42]
Joint Committee on the National Broadband Network (JCNBN), August 2011, Review
of the Rollout of the National Broadband Network: First Report, p. 22.
[43]
Correspondence from the DBCDE dated and received 13 November 2012.
[44]
Shareholder Ministers, ‘Performance Report to 30 June 2012’, Submission
13, p. 27.
Chapter 3 Regulatory and Pricing Issues
[1]
For an overview of the process and negotiations undertaken to arrive at
the Telstra Agreement see JCNBN Second Report, Chapter 3, November 2011 and
Third Report, Chapter 3, June 2012.
[2]
Shareholder Ministers, ‘Performance Report to 30 June 2012’, Submission
13, p. 7.
[3]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012-2015, 6 August 2012, p. 31; ACCC,
<www.accc.gov.au>
[4]
Mr Rod Sims, Chairman, ACCC, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra,
14 August 2012, p. 5.
[5]
Mr Sims, ACCC, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 14 August 2012, p. 3.
[6]
The SAU will cover key price and product aspects of access to NBN Co’s
fibre, wireless and satellite networks as well as a number of non price terms
and conditions over a 30-year period (until 2040) with a mid-term review,
JCNBN, November 2011, Second Report, p. 51 and JCNBN, June 2012, Third Report,
p. 47.
[7]
ACCC, 2012, ACCC Commences Public Consultation on NBN Co Special Access
Undertaking, media release, 20 December.
[8]
The ACCC considers the NBN Co SAU under the criteria set out in section
152CBD of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010, ACCC, <www.accc.gov.au>
[9]
This document contains ‘high level design principles for the proposed
incentive based modular SAU’, NBN Co, NBN Co Corporate Plan 2012-2015, 6
August 2012, p. 31.
[10]
ACCC, 2012, ACCC Suspends Assessment of NBN Co Special Access Undertaking,
media release, 20 June; Mr Sims, ACCC, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra,
14 August 2012, p. 11; NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012-2015, 6 August
2012, p. 31.
[11]
ACCC, 2012, NBN Co Withdraws Special Access Undertaking, media release, 11
September.
[12]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012-2015, 6 August 2012, p. 31.
[13]
On 12 November 2012, the ACCC released its first consultation paper on the revised
NBN Co SAU, to be followed by a stakeholder forum in December. Submissions to
the ACCC’s consultation were due by 11 January 2013. ACCC, 2012, ACCC commences
first public consultation on NBN Co Special Access Undertaking, media release,
12 November, p. 2.
[14]
ACCC, NBN Co Special Access Undertaking (December 2012), www.accc.gov.au
[15]
ACCC, NBN Co Original Special Access Undertaking (December 2011),
www.accc.gov.au
[16]
‘This timeframe is subject to its ability to extend this period and periods
which are discounted from the assessment timeframe such as when the ACCC is
consulting on the SAU, or NBN Co is responding to any Notice to vary, issued to
it.’ ACCC, NBN Co Special Access Undertaking (December 2012), www.accc.gov.au
[17]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012-2015, 6 August 2012, pp 31-32.
[18]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2011-2013, pp 106-107.
[19]
JCNBN, November 2011, Review of the Rollout of the National Broadband
Network: Second Report, p. 56.
[20]
Shareholder Ministers, ‘Performance Report to 30 June 2012’, Submission
13, p. 11.
[21]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012-2015, p. 31.
[22]
ACCC, 2012, ACCC Suspends Assessment of NBN Co Special Access Undertaking,
media release, 20 June, p. 2.
[23]
ACCC, 2012, ACCC commences first public consultation on NBN Co Special
Access Undertaking, media release, 12 November, p. 2.
[24]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012-2015, p. 31.
[25]
Shareholder Ministers, ‘Performance Report to 30 June 2012’, Submission
13, p. 22.
[26]
ACCC, 2012, ACCC Suspends Assessment of NBN Co Special Access Undertaking, media
release, 20 June, p. 2.
[27]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012-2015, p. 31.
[28]
Shareholder Ministers, ‘Performance Report to 30 June 2012’, Submission
13, p. 22.
[29]
NBN Co, Submission 7.8, Answer to question on notice No. 19.
[30]
NBN Co, Submission 7.8, Answer to question on notice No. 19.
[31]
Connectivity Virtual Circuit ‘is an aggregation of the bandwidth allocated
to the end user premises and the point of interconnect’ to the NBN. NBN Co Corporate
Plan 2011-2013, pp 151-152.
[32]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012-2015, p. 60.
[33]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012-2015, p. 67.
[34]
Mr Mike Quigley, CEO, NBN Co, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 30 October
2012, pp 23-24.
[35]
Mr Ed Willett, Commissioner, ACCC, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 14
August 2012, p. 11.
[36]
ACCC, 2012, ACCC commences first public consultation on NBN Co Special
Access Undertaking, media release, 12 November, p. 1.
[37]
ACCC, 2012, ACCC commences first public consultation on NBN Co Special
Access Undertaking, media release, 12 November, p. 1.
Chapter 4 Regional and Remote Issues
[1]
Shareholder Ministers, ‘Performance Report to 30 June 2012’, Submission
13, p. 28.
[2]
Shareholder Ministers, ‘Performance Report to 30 June 2012’, Submission
13, pp 5–6.
[3]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012–2015, p. 36.
[4]
Mr Mike Quigley CEO, NBN Co, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 30 October
2012, p. 18.
[5]
Joint Committee on the National Broadband Network, Third Report, p. 79.
[6]
Joint Committee on the National Broadband Network, Third Report, p. 80.
[7]
There are currently over 40 retail service providers making their
services available across Australia. Shareholder Ministers’ Performance Report,
Submission 13, p. 11.
[8]
Change Agent nb Pty Ltd, Submission 2; Regional Development
Australia, Far West NSW, Submission 3.
[9]
Hon Wendy Duncan MLC, Submission 4.
[10]
Australian Government, October 2012, Response to the Joint Committee on
the National Broadband Network Third Report of 25 June 2012, p. 16.
[11]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012–2015, p. 32.
[12]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012–2015, p. 32.
[13]
Mr Quigley, NBN Co., Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 30 October 2012, p.
22.
[14]
NBN Co, Submission 7.6, Answer to Question on Notice No. 45.
[15]
NBN Co, Submission 7.9, Answer to question on notice No 46.
[16]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012–15, p. 20.
[17]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012–2015, p. 39.
[18]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012–2015, p. 57.
[19]
Shareholder Ministers, ‘Performance Report to 30 June 2012’, Submission
13, p. 12.
[20]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012–2015, p. 39.
[21]
Shareholder Ministers, ‘Performance Report to 30 June 2012’, Submission
13, p. 11.
[22]
Shareholder Ministers, ‘Performance Report to 30 June 2012’, Submission
13, p. 7.
[23]
Shareholder Ministers, ‘Performance Report to 30 June 2012’, Submission
13, p. 14.
[24]
Shareholder Ministers, ‘Performance Report to 30 June 2012’, Submission
13, pp 27–28.
[25]
Shareholder Ministers, ‘Performance Report to 30 June 2012’, Submission
13, p. 29.
[26]
Shareholder Ministers, ‘Performance Report to 30 June 2012’, Submission
13, p. 14.
[27]
NBN Co, NBN Co Corporate Plan 2012–2015, pp 20–1.
[28]
Shareholder Ministers, ‘Performance Report to 30 June 2012’, Submission
13, p. 11.
[29]
Mr Quigley, NBN Co.,
Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 30 October 2012, p. 19.
[30]
NBN Co, Submission 7.5, Answer to Question on Notice No. 72.
[31]
Shareholder Ministers, ‘Performance Report to 30 June 2012’, Submission
13, p. 14.
[32]
Shareholder Ministers, ‘Performance Report to 30 June 2012’, Submission
13, pp 14–15.
[33]
Shareholder Ministers, ‘Performance Report to 30 June 2012’, Submission
13, p. 28.
[34]
Shareholder Ministers, ‘Performance Report to 30 June 2012’, Submission
13, p. 29.
[35]
NBN Co, Submission 7.9, Answer to question on notice 39.
[36]
NBN Co, 2012, NBN Co Selects Broken Hill as Satellite Centre, media release,
15 November.
[37]
Shareholder Ministers, ‘Performance Report to 30 June 2012’, Submission 13,
p. 28.
[38]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012–2015, p. 33.
[39]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012–2015, p. 39.
[40]
Shareholder Ministers,
‘Performance Report to 30 June 2012’, Submission 13, pp 14–15.
[41]
Mr Quigley, NBN Co, Transcript
of Evidence, Canberra, 30 October 2012, p. 18.
[42]
Mr Quigley, NBN Co., Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 30 October 2012, p.
18.
[43]
NBN Co, Submission 7.8, Answer to Question on Notice No. 41.
[44]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012–2015, p. 33.
[45]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012–2015, p. 38.
[46]
NBN Co, Submission 7.5,
Answer to Question on Notice No. 40.
[47]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012–2015, p. 68.
[48]
NBN Co, Submission 7.6, Answer to Question on Notice No. 47.
[49]
NBN Co, Submission 7.6, Answer to Question on Notice No. 48.
[50]
Mr Quigley, NBN Co, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 30 October 2012, pp
20 and 22.
[51]
NBN Co, Submission 7.5, Answer to Question on Notice No. 67.
[52]
NBN Co, Submission 7.5, Answer to Question on Notice No. 66.
[53]
NBN Co, Submission 7.5, Answer to Question on Notice No. 68.
Chapter 5 Additional Issues
[1]
Personal Emergency Response Services Association (PERSA), Submission 10,
p. 1, and Tunstall Healthcare, Submission 8, p. 2.
[2]
PERSA, Submission 10, p. 3, and Tunstall Healthcare, Submission
8, p. 2.
[3]
PERSA, Submission 10, p. 1.
[4]
Mr Gary Morgan, Health Services Director, Tunstall Healthcare, Transcript
of Evidence, Canberra, 9 October 2012, p. 1.
[5]
Mr Morgan, Tunstall Healthcare, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 9
October 2012, p. 1.
[6]
NBN Co, Submission 7.6, Answer to Question on Notice Nos 26, 27,
p. 2.
[7]
PERSA, Submission 10, p. 2.
[8]
Tunstall Healthcare, Submission 8, p. 2.
[9]
PERSA, Submission 10, p. 2.
[10]
Mr Geoff Feakes, Chief Information Officer, Tunstall Healthcare, Transcript
of Evidence, Canberra, 9 October 2012, p. 2.
[11]
PERSA, Submission 10, p. 2.
[12]
Tunstall Healthcare also supported PERSA’s proposal to lengthen the
telecommunications service contract cooling-off period—Mr Feakes, Tunstall
Healthcare, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 9 October 2012, p. 2.
[13]
Tunstall Healthcare, Submission 8, p. 3.
[14]
Mr Feakes, Tunstall Healthcare, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 9 October
2012, p. 2.
[15]
Mr Feakes, Tunstall Healthcare, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 9 October
2012, p. 2.
[16]
Mr Feakes, Tunstall Healthcare, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 9 October
2012, p. 3.
[17]
PERSA, Submission 10, p. 3. In terms of the battery supply, NBN Co
explained that this is provided ‘at no cost to the end-user as part of a
standard installation. If a customer requests a battery backup unit to be
installed to support an existing NBN connection it is also proposed that this
would be provided at no cost to the end user’, Submission 7.4, Answer to
Question on Notice No. 33, p. 4.
[18]
Tunstall Healthcare, Submission 8, p. 2.
[19]
Mr Feakes, Tunstall Healthcare, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 9 October
2012, p. 2, p. 3.
[20]
Ms Lisa Capamagian, Marketing and Strategy Implementation Manager, Tunstall
Healthcare, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 9 October 2012, p. 4.
[21]
Mr Feakes, Tunstall Healthcare, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 9 October
2012, p. 4, p. 5.
[22]
Mr Morgan, Tunstall Healthcare, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 9 October
2012, p. 4.
[23]
The term ‘mains failure notification’ was used by Tunstall Healthcare to
classify a signal received by the Tunstall monitoring centre due to a power
outage—Tunstall Healthcare, Submission 8.1, p. 1.
[24]
Tunstall Healthcare, Submission 8.1, pp 1-2.
[25]
Tunstall Healthcare, Submission 8.1, p. 2.
[26]
PERSA, Submission 10, p. 3.
[27]
Tunstall Healthcare, Submission 8, p. 3.
[28]
Mr Feakes, Tunstall Healthcare, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 9 October
2012, p. 1.
[29]
Mr Feakes, Tunstall Healthcare, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 9 October
2012, p. 1.
[30]
NBN Co, Submission 7.5, Answer to Question on Notice No. 34, p. 3.
[31]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012-15, p. 32.
[32]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012-15, p. 32.
[33]
PERSA, Submission 10, p. 3.
[34]
NBN Co, Submission 7.4, Answer to question on notice No. 8.
[35]
Mr Ralph Steffens, Chief Operating Officer, NBN Co, Transcript of Evidence,
Canberra, 30 October 2012, p. 8.
[36]
Mr Steffens, NBN Co, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 30 October
2012, p. 8.
[37]
Mr Steffens, NBN Co, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 30 October 2012, p.
8.
[38]
NBN Co, Submission 7.6, Answer to question on notice No. 20.
[39]
NBN Co, Submission 7.6, Answer to question on notice No. 20.
[40]
NBN Co, Submission 7.4, Answer to question on notice No. 8.
[41]
PERSA, Submission 10, p. 1.
[42] NBN
Co, Submission 7.6, Answer to Question on Notice Nos 26, 27, p. 2.
[43]
Ms Capamagian, Tunstall Healthcare, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 9
October 2012, p. 5.
[44]
Mr Morgan, Tunstall Healthcare, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 9 October
2012, p. 1.
[45]
Mr Feakes, Tunstall Healthcare, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 9 October
2012, p. 3.
[46]
Mr Feakes, Tunstall Healthcare, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 9 October
2012, p. 2.
[47]
Mr Feakes, Tunstall Healthcare, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 9 October
2012, p. 3.
[48]
Mr Feakes, Tunstall Healthcare, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 9 October
2012, p. 3.
[49]
Mr Feakes, Tunstall Healthcare, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 9 October
2012, p. 2.
[50]
Ms Capamagian, Tunstall Healthcare, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 9
October 2012, p. 5. Tunstall Healthcare also commented that they understood NBN
Co were ‘working with the RSPs on who is responsible for the battery management,
whether or not the end user or the RSPs, as in the Telstras, Optuses and
SkyMeshes will have some role in that’— Mr Feakes, Tunstall Healthcare,
Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 9 October 2012, p. 2.
[51]
NBN Co, Submission 7.6, Answer to Question on Notice No. 32, p. 6.
[52]
NBN Co, Submission 7.6, Answer to Question on Notice Nos 26-27, p.
2.
[53]
NBN Co, Submission 7.8, Answer to Question on Notice No. 28, p. 6.
[54]
NBN Co, Submission 7.6, Answer to Question on Notice Nos 26-27, p.
3.
[55]
NBN Co, Submission 7.6, Answer to Question on Notice Nos 26-27, p.
3.
[56]
NBN Co, Submission 7.6, Answer to Question on Notice Nos 26-27, p.
3.
[57]
PERSA, Submission 10, pp 2-3, and Tunstall Healthcare, Submission
8, p. 3.
[58]
NBN Co, Submission 7.6, Answer to Question on Notice Nos 26-27, p.
2; and Submission 7.8, Answer to Question on Notice No. 28, p. 6.
Chapter 6 Private Equity Engagement and Workforce Issues
[1]
Mr Peter Harris, Secretary, Department of Broadband, Communications and
the Digital Economy (DBCDE), Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 26 June 2012, p.
10.
[2]
Mr Daryl Quinlivan, Deputy Secretary, DBCDE, Transcript of Evidence,
Canberra, 26 June 2012, p. 11.
[3]
Mr Harris, DBCDE, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 26 June 2012, p. 10.
[4]
Mr Harris, DBCDE, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 26 June 2012, pp 10
and 11.
[5]
Mr Harris, DBCDE, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 26 June 2012, p. 11.
[6]
Mr Harris, DBCDE, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 26 June 2012, p. 11.
[7]
Mr Harris, DBCDE, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 26 June 2012, p. 11.
[8]
Australian Government, Statement of Expectations, 20 December 2010—the
Statement of Expectations provides an outline of the Government’s policy
implementation objectives for the NBN.
[9]
DBCDE, Submission 10, Third Review of the JCNBN, p. 11.
[10]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012-15, p. 80.
[11]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2011-13, p. 141.
[12]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012-15, p. 71.
[13]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012-15, p. 80.
[14]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012-15, p. 16.
[15]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012-15, pp 16 and 80.
[16]
Australian Government, October 2012, Response to the Joint Committee on
the National Broadband Network Third Report of 25 June 2012, p. 18.
[17]
NBN Co, Corporate Plan 2012-15, p. 80.
[18]
Joint Committee on the National Broadband Network (JCNBN), Review of the
Rollout of the National Broadband Network: Third Report, June 2012, p.
xxii.
[19]
Australian Government, October 2012, Response to the Joint Committee on
the National Broadband Network Third Report of 25 June 2012, p. 18.
[20]
Australian Government, October 2012, Response to the Joint Committee on
the National Broadband Network Third Report of 25 June 2012, p. 18.
[21]
JCNBN, Review of the Rollout of the National Broadband Network: Second
Report, November 2011, p. 34.
[22]
NBN Co, 2011, NBN Co and Telstra Sign Binding Definitive Agreements,
media release, 23 June.
[23]
Conroy S (Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy)
and Wong P (Minister for Finance and Deregulation), 2012, Definitive
Agreements between NBN Co and Telstra come into Force, media release, 7
March.
[24]
The DBCDE explained that it is ‘up to Telstra to put a case to the
Commonwealth as to why an extension should be granted’, and that, under the
RFD, ‘the Commonwealth will not unreasonably withhold or delay consent to a
request for the term to be extended’—Submission 14, Answer to
Question on Notice No. 52, p. 3.
[25]
Telstra Corporation, Submission 12, p. 1.
[26] Telstra
Corporation, Submission 12, p. 1.
[27] DBCDE,
Submission 10, Third Review of the JCNBN, pp 4-5.
[28] Telstra
Corporation, Submission 12.1, p. 3.
[29] DBCDE,
Submission 10, Third Review of the JCNBN, p. 5.
[30]
Ms Ros Eason, Senior National Industrial Research Officer, Communications
Division (CWU), Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 26 June 2012, p. 3.
[31]
Mr Julian Clarke, Director, Workplace Relations and Policy, Telstra
Corporation, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 30 October 2012, p. 29.
[32] Mr
James Shaw, Director, Government Relations, Telstra Corporation, Transcript of
Evidence, Canberra, 30 October 2012, p. 33.
[33] Mr
Clarke, Telstra Corporation, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 30 October 2012,
p. 34.
[34]
Ms Eason, CWU, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 26 June 2012, p. 7.
[35] Mr
Daryl Quinlivan, Deputy Secretary, DBCDE, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 26
June 2012, p. 9.
[36]
Mr Clarke, Telstra Corporation, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 30
October 2012, pp 27-28.
[37]
Mr Shaw, Telstra Corporation, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 30 October
2012, pp 28 and 33.
[38]
Mr Shaw, Telstra Corporation, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 30 October
2012, p. 32.
[39] Mr
Clarke, Telstra Corporation, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 30 October 2012,
p. 32.
[40] Mr
Shaw, Telstra Corporation, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 30 October 2012,
p. 33.
[41]
Mr Shaw, Telstra Corporation, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 30 October
2012, p. 32.
[42]
Mr Shaw, Telstra Corporation, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 30 October
2012, p. 30.
[43]
‘Telstra’s “Project New” means big job cuts’, Australian, 22 August
2012, p. 19.
[44] Mr
Clarke, Telstra Corporation, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 30 October 2012,
p. 29.
[45] Mr
Shaw, Telstra Corporation, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 30 October 2012,
pp 29-30.
[46] Telstra
Corporation, Submission 12.1, p. 3.
[47]
Telstra Corporation, Submission 12.1, p. 2.
[48] Telstra
Corporation, Submission 12, p. 2.
[49] Telstra
Corporation, Submission 12.1, p. 3.
[50]
Australian Government, October 2012, Response to the Joint Committee on
the National Broadband Network Third Report of 25 June 2012, p. 19.
[51] Telstra
Corporation, Submission 12.1, pp 2-4.
[52]
DBCDE, Submission 14, Answer to Question on Notice No. 53, p. 4.
[53]
Telstra Corporation, Submission 12, pp 2-3—with some figures
(bracketed), as later corrected by Mr Shaw, Telstra Corporation,
Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 30 October 2012, p. 26.
[54] Telstra
Corporation, Submission 12, p. 3.
[55] DBCDE,
Submission 14, Answer to Question on Notice No. 52, p. 2.
[56] Telstra
Corporation, Submission 12, pp 3-4.
[57] Ms
Eason, CWU, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 26 June 2012, p. 7.
[58] Telstra
Corporation, Submission 12.1, p. 3.
[59] Telstra
Corporation, Submission 12.1, p. 3.
[60]
Mr Clarke, Telstra Corporation, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 30
October 2012, p. 27.
[61] Telstra
Corporation, Submission 12.1, pp 3-4. Beyond the first three years of
the Training Plan, Telstra pointed out that these ‘targets are approximate’ and
will be ‘confirmed or revised’ when the next Training Plan, covering the period
1 July 2014 to 30 June 2017, is submitted—Submission 12.1, p. 4.
[62]
CWU, Communications Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU), Submission 1,
p. 2.
[63]
CWU, Submission 1, p. 2.
[64] Ms
Eason, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 26 June 2012, p. 4.
[65] Ms
Eason, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 26 June 2012, p. 5.
[66] CWU,
CEPU, Submission 1, p. 2.
[67]
Ms Eason, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 26 June 2012, p. 4, p. 5.
[68]
Ms Eason, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 26 June 2012, p. 5.
[69] Mr
Clarke, Telstra Corporation, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 30 October 2012,
p. 31.
[70] Mr
Clarke, Telstra Corporation, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 30 October 2012,
p. 31.
[71] Telstra
Corporation, Submission 12, p. 4.
[72] Telstra
Corporation, Submission 12, p. 4.
[73] Telstra
Corporation, Submission 12, p. 4.
[74]
Ms Eason, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 26 June 2012, p. 8.
[75] DBCDE,
Submission 14, Answer to Question on Notice No. 55, p. 6.
[76]
DBCDE, Submission 14, Answer to Question on Notice No. 54, p. 5.
[77]
DBCDE, Submission 14, Answer to Question on Notice No. 54, p. 5.
[78] JCNBN,
Review of the Rollout of the National Broadband Network: Third Report,
June 2012, p. xxii.
[79] Australian
Government, October 2012, Response to the Joint Committee on the National
Broadband Network Third Report of 25 June 2012, p. 18, p. 24.
[80]
DBCDE, Submission 14, Answer to Question on Notice No. 52, p. 3.
[81]
CWU, Submission 1, p. 3.
[82]
Mr Dan Dwyer, Divisional Secretary, CWU, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra,
30 October 2012, p. 2.
[83] DBCDE,
Submission 14, Answer to Question on Notice No. 56, p. 7.
[84]
DBCDE, Submission 14, Answer to Question on Notice No. 56, p. 7.
[85] DBCDE,
Submission 14, Answer to Question on Notice No. 56, pp 7-8.
[86] Australian
Government, October 2012, Response to the Joint Committee on the National
Broadband Network Third Report of 25 June 2012, pp 19-24.
[87]
Telstra Corporation, Submission 12.1, p. 1.
[88] JCNBN,
Review of the Rollout of the National Broadband Network: Third Report,
June 2012, p. xxii. The Government agreed that ‘information about the progress
of the Telstra Retraining Funding Deed could be included in the annual
statement outlining the direct and indirect employment benefits of the National
Broadband Network’, provided as part of the Government response to the
committee’s review reports, and therefore made publicly available—Australian
Government, October 2012, Response to the Joint Committee on the National
Broadband Network Third Report on 30 June 2012, p. 18.
[89] Telstra
Corporation, Submission 12.1, p. 3.
[90] Telstra
Corporation, Submission 12.1, p. 3.
[91] Ms
Eason, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 26 June 2012, p. 5.
[92]
JCNBN, Review of the Rollout of the National Broadband Network: Third
Report, June 2012, p. xxii.
[93]
Australian Government, October 2012, Response to the Joint Committee on
the National Broadband Network Third Report of 25 June 2012, p. 24.
[94]
JCNBN, Review of the Rollout of the National Broadband Network: Third
Report, June 2012, p. xxii.
[95]
DBCDE, Submission 14, Answer to Question on Notice No. 56, p. 7.
Dissenting Report by Coalition Members and Senators
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