Stephen Conroy
Stephen Michael Conroy (born 18 January 1963 in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England) is an Australian politician and the current Minister for Broadband, ... More »
Conroy gives blessing to Telstra acquisition of Adam Internet
Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy has thrown his support behind Telstra's move to buy Adelaide-based internet service provider (ISP) Adam Internet. Telstra announced this morning that it will be buying Adam Internet, which was founded by Greg Hicks 25 years ago, for an ... Read more »
Conroy's subsea cable plans 'a real worry': Hackett
Internode founder Simon Hackett has said that Communications Minister Stephen Conroy's plans for a government-owned subsea cable between Australia and the US is "a real worry," because he said it isn't where there is a price bottleneck. Two weeks ago, Conroy told an audience at a ... Read more »
Conroy's 'red underpants' comment made sense: US analyst
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy's comments about having "unfettered legal power" to make spectrum bidders wear red underpants on their heads made sense in the context, according to one US telecommunications analyst. Conroy made the comment in New York last week at the ... Read more »
Conroy considers Australian govt-owned subsea cable
In a speech at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information Conference in New York on Monday, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said that Australians are charged too much for international capacity on subsea fibre-optic cables, and that the Australian government is looking to do ... Read more »
Facebook pressured to remove page deemed racist
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy told Australian Broadcasting Corp. late Wednesday his office had called on Facebook's Sydney office to take the page down. Conroy says the creator of the page, whom he believed is a 16-year-old Australian living in the west coast city of ... Read more »
Australia's leadership: Showdowner
The trigger for the latest showdown was not pulled by Mr Rudd, but by a bungled bid on the part of Stephen Conroy, the communications minister, to push through legislation that would change Australia’s media-regulation laws. The most contentious item centred on a plan for the minister to ... Read more »
Australian Government Gives Up on Filtering the Internet
Late last week, Australian Labor Government Communication Minister Stephen Conroy announced that his nearly five-year quest to centrally filter Internet content before it could be accessed by the Australian populace was officially over, the Herald Sun reported. The censorship plan never ... Read more »
NBN Co opens Gold Coast call centre
Despite a recent run-in with the Gold Coast mayor over treatment of NBN Co executives, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has welcomed the opening of NBN Co's Gold Coast-based call centre to take calls on questions about the roll-out of the National Broadband Network (NBN). The call ... Read more »
NBN Co warns Turnbull broadband policy may cost more
Turnbull was also accused of hypocrisy again today from Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, who said that Turnbull is investing in Spanish telecommunications giant Telefonica, which is rolling out an FttP network. "If Australians want to know what Malcolm Turnbull really thinks about ... Read more »
Australian telco regulator powers boosted
Today, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy announced that the authority would get extra powers to issue a service provider determination, and force more regulation on carriers that are failing to comply with the code. "This will provide the ACMA with the flexibility to introduce ... Read more »
Australia hits out at Facebook over 'racist' page
Australian Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has hit out at Facebook over its failure to immediately take down a page that stereotyped Aboriginal people as hopeless petrol-sniffing drunks. While the content could not be viewed Thursday, Conroy said Facebook should have shut ... Read more »
Royal prank call DJs speak out in first interview
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said the ACMA was considering whether to initiate an inquiry beyond its usual process of giving broadcasters 60 days to respond to complaints. "While the ACMA is gathering the facts and working through the process it would be unwise for me to ... Read more »
Equinix Increases its Global Footprint with a $39.4M Expansion of Sydney 3 Data Center
Minister for broadband, communications and the digital economy, Senator Stephen Conroy was in attendance to officially open the new facility with Equinix Australia’s managing director, Tony Simonsen. SY3-II is located south of Sydney and provides approximately 1,000 cabinets across ... Read more »
Australia abandons mandatory Internet filter plan
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said Friday that instead of a compulsory filter being imposed, Internet service providers have agreed to block 1,400 child abuse websites on INTERPOL's "worst of" list. Three of Australia's largest telecommunications companies — Telstra, Optus and ... Read more »
Oz public denied formal feedback for Digital White Paper
" Other statements by Defence Minister Stephen Smith and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy indicated that the paper would look at consumer protection, cybersafety, cybercrime, cybersecurity, and cyberdefence, and will build on the government's existing 2009 CyberSecurity Safety ... Read more »
NBN to connect another 165,800 premises
Construction has begun to connect almost 166,000 homes and business premises to the high-speed national broadband network, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has announced. The federal government has released roll-out maps for 40 areas, covering 165,800 premises in NSW, Queensland... Read more »
Twitter promises to keep metadata for Australian law enforcement
After a number of complaints from Australian celebrities over the past few weeks about so-called Twitter "trolls," Communications Minister Stephen Conroy lamented that Twitter, as a company, was "arrogant" by not residing in Australia and, therefore, not complying with Australian laws ... Read more »
Turnbull should demonstrate broader comms nous
Ditto internet filtering, which continues to haunt Senator Stephen Conroy, despite a prolonged period of buck-passing on the government's part. The Coalition is apparently against it, but Turnbull seems to have little more to say on the issue. Conroy was recently blasted after he ... Read more »
Australian DJs break silence over royal prank tragedy
Australia's Communications Minister Stephen Conroy sought to deflect calls for more media regulation, telling journalists that a looming investigation by Australia's independent regulator should be allowed to happen without political interference... Read more »
Australian radio station says no wrongdoing in royal prank call
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said that the independent broadcast regulator, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), had received complaints about the royal hoax. The British royal family has long had an uneasy relationship with the media, which sank to its ... Read more »
