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So how much has Telstra really spent on its NBN bid?
By: Stuart Corner

Last week Telstra was talking up the investment it had made planning for the National Broadband Network. Now it has been excluded, it is telling a very different story.


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Conroy kicks Telstra out of NBN race
By: Stuart Corner

The Government has excluded Telstra from the National Broadband Network RFP process on what appears to be a technicality - that it failed to include a plan for how to involve small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the building of the NBN.


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Westnet officially brings ABC iView into view, too
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

iiNet, iPrimus and iNternode (ok, Internode) have all gone down the unmetered ABC iView path, and now iiNet subsidiary Westnet has done the same, too.


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Watch out crims: AFP and Telstra to fight hi-tech crime
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) says it is engaging in a new partnership with Australian telco Telstra to “strengthen its world-leading capability in countering new technology-enabled crime”.


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Trading Post renews bid to outbid eBay - on mobiles!
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

After launching a new auction site earlier this year, Sensis and Telstra are ratcheting up the pressure against eBay with the launch of a new “mobile” shopping and auction site that also works from mobile phones, even delivering free SMS alerts on bids, outbids and auction wins. Can Sensis bounce the eBay behemoth?


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Huawei claims lead in 21Mbps HSPA devices
By: Stuart Corner

Telstra and Sierra Wireless have demonstrated 21 Mbps HSPA devices on Telstra's network, but Sierra admits there is much work to be done before its devices are ready for commercial service. Huawei, however is claiming to have demonstrated "the world's first commercial ready HSPA+ [21Mbps] devices," on PCCW's network in Hong Kong.


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Telstra's 21Mbps Next G upgrade: its not just about speed
By: Stuart Corner

Ericsson scored a double whammy this week announcing upgrades of HSPA networks in Australia and Scandinavia to 21Mbps, the first in the world, but it's not just the speed upgrade that matters.


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Like the computer, Telstra says “no” – to Aussie Net filtering
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Australia’s dominant telco, Telstra, has decided not to participate in the Australian Federal Government’s “Internet filtering” trial, primarily due to “customer management issues”, but might still implement filtering technologies in the future.


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Aussie NBN network already being bypassed by Next G?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

With plenty of talk recently about how wireless technologies could make the proposed Australian "National Broadband Network" or NBN redundant, Telstra is already demonstrating an 800km rollout of fibre in the Northern Territory alongside wireless solutions that are serving rural and regional Australia with high-speed broadband – today.


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World’s first 21Mbps eHSPA/HSPA+ data “call” made in Australia
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Although data “calls” on 21Mbps networks and equipment have been made in the labs and in demonstrations, Australia is the first place in the world where such a call has been made on a commercial, deployed 21Mbps eHSPA network, with a full commercial launch due early 2009.


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Telstra says Net filtering useless, GetUp wants re-think
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Telstra’s Greg Winn has poured cold water over the Government’s filtering plans, saying it's akin to trying to “boil the ocean” and that people will find a way around it, while GetUp!’s campaign to “Save the Net” draws huge support from Australians.


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Telstra's plumber puts the case for a Telstra NBN
By: Stuart Corner

Telstra has staged the latest move in the ongoing PR battle over the National Broadband Network: a presentation from its 'Plumber', COO Greg Winn, seeking to communicate the complexity and difficulty of the project,  and only Telstra's ability to build and operate it.


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CEDA says competition not NBN is key to broadband success
By: Stan Beer

Leading economic think tank CEDA (Committee for Economic Development of Australia) has criticised the Federal Government's obsession with building the National Broadband Network, saying a subsidised $4.7 billion FTTN rollout is unnecessary. CEDA's report, Australia’s Broadband Future: Four doors to greater competition, maintains that focussing on FTTN to the exclusion of competing access methods will decrease competition.


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Nokia Siemens foreshadows the 1Gbps wireless network
By: Stuart Corner

Nokia Siemens Networks claims to have staged the first demonstration of LTE-A (long term evolution-advanced) wireless broadband technology, a future evolution of today's 3G networks that could deliver speeds up to 1Gbps. But don't hold you breath.


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Telstra slams Whirlpool and “dead tree journalists” over unfair NBN coverage
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Seemingly sick to death of constant attack on Telstra from “dead tree journalists” with an agenda, competitors and "geeky" Whirlpool critics, Telstra’s “Telstra-phile” Rod Bruem is taking the broom to the critics and whacking them over the head with it.


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Conroy ignored AG's advice by accepting Telstra's NBN non-bid
By: Stuart Corner

Shadow communications minister Nick Minchin claims that communications minister Stephen Conroy has ignored written advice from the Attorney General that he could only accept Telstra's non-compliant bid for the national broadband network by altering the terms of the RFP.


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Dear Mr McGauchie...Please explain
By: Stuart Corner

Telstra's chairman has sunk to a new low in its attempts to discredit rivals in the battle for the National Broadband Network, branding former Telstra executives heading rival bidder, Acacia, as having "not done the company any good at all and not done a lot of good for the customers."


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Are seniors an "EasyTouch" for Telstra?
By: Stephen Withers

Telstra's eyeing up the senior market with a new 3G phone designed with older users in mind, although anyone that prefers 'just a phone' might see that with the EasyTouch Discovery, there's more than meets the eye.


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