NBN to Reshape Net, Pay-TV

A major network technology vendor has revealed the potential for Labor’s $43 billion national broadband network to radically reshape the internet and pay-TV industries. Ericsson Australia and New Zealand multimedia strategy chief Kursten Leins said the network was likely to contain the intelligence and design that would allow the NBN company to let IPTV players bypass internet service providers and bolt directly on to the fibre access network. That would remove a crucial economic obstacle to the success of IPTV — the ISP broadband tariffs that sit between IPTV players and consumers