Communications Alliance has released for public comment a draft document on the technical standards for the design and rollout of the national broadband network.

SEW-Eurodrive has opened a new sales and service centre in Perth, to improve its service levels to the local market.

In March 2010, TransGrid will energise its new 115 km, 330 kV transmission-line project in the NSW Central West, to increase the reliability of supply to residents and businesses.

Google recently announced plans to deploy an experimental fibre network to further the number of applications available to communities in the US over the internet.

The recent High Court decision in the case of Kirk v IRC of NSW and WorkCover has been welcomed by NECA.

NECA has thrown its support behind the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s call for employers to engage apprentices to help deal with the emerging skill shortages problem.

Corning Cable Systems has been awarded an NBN Tasmania tender for end-to-end supply of the passive fibre-to-the-premise network.

Eaton has appointed Craig Gob as Managing Director for its Australian and New Zealand electrical business.

Independent electrical wholesaling group Gemcell has joined Europe’s largest consortium of independent electrical wholesalers IMELCO.

Draft legislation for the deployment of optical fibre in new developments has recently been released to industry for comment.

Fuelled by a rapidly developing OLED lighting market and many new applications for OLED displays, an explosion in demand for OLED materials is predicted in a recent report by an industry analyst.

The jobs forecast for Australian engineers looks promising moving into the new decade, while the general job outlook for 2010 is ‘cloudy with sunny periods’, predicts the EL Executive Demand index, which has been trending skilled and semi-skilled job markets since 1992.

NBN Co will soon begin an important phase of open consultation with its wholesale customers and the telecommunications industry as a whole.

Key industry stakeholders and the broader community are urged to comment on options to potentially extend the scope of the ACT Government’s electricity feed-in tariff scheme.

Telstra will commence upgrading part of its access network to fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) technology in the Melbourne suburb of Point Cook.