items tagged with Telecommunications Policy
NSW says bye-bye to free Wi-Fi
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-05-01 21:46:32
In the biggest non-surprise of 2008, the Government of Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales, has backpedalled on an election promise that would have seen CBDs of major cities in the state, including Sydney, receive free Wi-Fi.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-05-01 21:46:32
In the biggest non-surprise of 2008, the Government of Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales, has backpedalled on an election promise that would have seen CBDs of major cities in the state, including Sydney, receive free Wi-Fi.
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Australian Liberal Party outraged over Government comms fund ‘raid’
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-05-01 08:54:02
Bruce Billson, the Federal Opposition spokesman for Communications, is outraged that the Labor Party wants to use the existing AUD $2 billion Communications Fund for anything at all, aside from letting it generate around $100m in interest per year.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-05-01 08:54:02
Bruce Billson, the Federal Opposition spokesman for Communications, is outraged that the Labor Party wants to use the existing AUD $2 billion Communications Fund for anything at all, aside from letting it generate around $100m in interest per year.
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CDMA network gets cu... beep beep beep
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-04-28 08:23:46
Cut. Chopped. Closed. Finito. Over and out. Lights off. KO’d. Goodbye and good luck, oh CDMA network, may you forever rest in peace, as your equipment is taken away in pieces.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-04-28 08:23:46
Cut. Chopped. Closed. Finito. Over and out. Lights off. KO’d. Goodbye and good luck, oh CDMA network, may you forever rest in peace, as your equipment is taken away in pieces.
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CDMA network gets the chop – at midnight
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-04-27 17:47:11
Hear ye, hear ye: all those with a CDMA mobile still connected, make your last calls, your last calls. Today’s the day, tonight’s the night, the CDMA network will switch out its light.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-04-27 17:47:11
Hear ye, hear ye: all those with a CDMA mobile still connected, make your last calls, your last calls. Today’s the day, tonight’s the night, the CDMA network will switch out its light.
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Liberal Party Senator blames Labor Gov’t for losing Telstra CDMA leverage
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-04-27 07:27:50
How quickly will Australia’s dominant telco, Telstra, act to fix remaining CDMA blackspots now that CDMA network has been given the green light to shut down on Monday April 28? A Liberal Party Senator says the Federal Labor Government has lost its powerful leverage – but is this true?
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-04-27 07:27:50
How quickly will Australia’s dominant telco, Telstra, act to fix remaining CDMA blackspots now that CDMA network has been given the green light to shut down on Monday April 28? A Liberal Party Senator says the Federal Labor Government has lost its powerful leverage – but is this true?
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Anger remains over Telstra’s impending CDMA closure
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-04-26 04:41:11
Monday the 28th of April is D-Day for the CDMA network, and while there’s no stopping the closure now, last minute frustrations are being shared with media outlets across Australia. Whether CDMA users like it or not, they’ve got no choice but to switch to Next G – or give up on mobile telephony.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-04-26 04:41:11
Monday the 28th of April is D-Day for the CDMA network, and while there’s no stopping the closure now, last minute frustrations are being shared with media outlets across Australia. Whether CDMA users like it or not, they’ve got no choice but to switch to Next G – or give up on mobile telephony.
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Telstra pleads with CDMA customers to ‘migrate this weekend’
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-04-24 01:14:41
Telstra has advised its shops and dealers across Australia to prepare “for a last minute rush this weekend” in anticipation of CDMA customers grabbing their “last chance” to move off the old CDMA network.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-04-24 01:14:41
Telstra has advised its shops and dealers across Australia to prepare “for a last minute rush this weekend” in anticipation of CDMA customers grabbing their “last chance” to move off the old CDMA network.
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CDMA/Next G coverage complaints to spike on Tuesday 29th April?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-04-23 22:55:37
With the Australian CDMA network due to close by midnight on Monday the 28th of April, concerns still swirl that the Next G network isn’t providing adequate coverage for soon to be ex-CDMA customers. What should affected users urgently do?
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-04-23 22:55:37
With the Australian CDMA network due to close by midnight on Monday the 28th of April, concerns still swirl that the Next G network isn’t providing adequate coverage for soon to be ex-CDMA customers. What should affected users urgently do?
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CDMA hang up looms: Telstra advertising blitz starts Thursday
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-04-23 01:13:07
It’s ‘last call’ for the CDMA network, and Telstra wants to make sure no-one can claim they didn’t hear that CDMA will close shortly. Besides many calls, text messages and letters already sent to CDMA customers, a national newspaper advertising blitz will start tomorrow.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-04-23 01:13:07
It’s ‘last call’ for the CDMA network, and Telstra wants to make sure no-one can claim they didn’t hear that CDMA will close shortly. Besides many calls, text messages and letters already sent to CDMA customers, a national newspaper advertising blitz will start tomorrow.
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Telstra engineers gear up for CDMA close down
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-04-22 08:03:41
As the clock ticks ever closer to CDMA’s April 28th close down date, Telstra’s engineers stand ready and poised to co-ordinate a carefully planned, multi-stage process that will see CDMA bite the dust across our great Southern land.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-04-22 08:03:41
As the clock ticks ever closer to CDMA’s April 28th close down date, Telstra’s engineers stand ready and poised to co-ordinate a carefully planned, multi-stage process that will see CDMA bite the dust across our great Southern land.
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Telstra issues CDMA shutdown Q&A
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-04-19 02:11:56
With only a few days to go before Telstra shuts down the CDMA network permanently, it has issued a brief Q&A outlining what it believes are important final questions, while urging any remaining CDMA holdouts to move to Next G quickly.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-04-19 02:11:56
With only a few days to go before Telstra shuts down the CDMA network permanently, it has issued a brief Q&A outlining what it believes are important final questions, while urging any remaining CDMA holdouts to move to Next G quickly.
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ACCC's role in evaluating broadband network proposals is indeed 'critical'
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-04-17 01:55:56
Communications minister Stephen Conroy has sought to defend the evaluation process for responses to his RFP for a national broadband network, describing the ACCC's role as critical. Critical as in: "having a decisive or crucial importance in the success or failure of something" it is not. Try critical as in "having the potential to become disastrous" instead.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-04-17 01:55:56
Communications minister Stephen Conroy has sought to defend the evaluation process for responses to his RFP for a national broadband network, describing the ACCC's role as critical. Critical as in: "having a decisive or crucial importance in the success or failure of something" it is not. Try critical as in "having the potential to become disastrous" instead.
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Telstra gets ‘ok’ to Close Down ‘CDMA’ Mobile Architecture
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Networks
2008-04-15 00:33:50
CDMA... the cherished dear mobile architecture of rural and regional Australia is to be officially closed down come the 28th of April, 2008 – and boy, is Telstra happy!
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Networks
2008-04-15 00:33:50
CDMA... the cherished dear mobile architecture of rural and regional Australia is to be officially closed down come the 28th of April, 2008 – and boy, is Telstra happy!
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Australia becoming a totalitarian state with email snooping to become the norm?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-04-13 21:27:32
Federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland wants to let employers snoop on employees emails – without the consent of workers – as an anti-terrorism measure. Where do we draw the line on privacy?
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-04-13 21:27:32
Federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland wants to let employers snoop on employees emails – without the consent of workers – as an anti-terrorism measure. Where do we draw the line on privacy?
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The non-sniffable OPEL smell of WiMAX
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-04-07 20:51:26
As we all know, the Optus and Elders joint-venture called OPEL was felled by the Federal Government, not only seeking to save almost $1b but promote its own fibre network at the expense of next-gen WiMAX. What a shame.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-04-07 20:51:26
As we all know, the Optus and Elders joint-venture called OPEL was felled by the Federal Government, not only seeking to save almost $1b but promote its own fibre network at the expense of next-gen WiMAX. What a shame.
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Government claims 38 percent shortfall in Opel wireless coverage
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-04-02 01:27:00
The Federal Government has found a loophole that has enabled it to extricate itself from the much maligned deal under which the previous Coalition Government commited almost $1 billion to the Optus - Elders joint venture in return for the provision of broadband services to huge areas of regional and rural Australia, but the means by which it has done this seem highly questionable.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-04-02 01:27:00
The Federal Government has found a loophole that has enabled it to extricate itself from the much maligned deal under which the previous Coalition Government commited almost $1 billion to the Optus - Elders joint venture in return for the provision of broadband services to huge areas of regional and rural Australia, but the means by which it has done this seem highly questionable.
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FTTN is all very well, but what about the long haul
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-03-13 00:48:39
The visiting head of Canadian telco, Axia Netmedia has told the Atug conference thata ubiquitous open access long haul network network around Australia could be built for $2 billion and with it competition would be able to deliver affordable high speed access to much of Australia.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-03-13 00:48:39
The visiting head of Canadian telco, Axia Netmedia has told the Atug conference thata ubiquitous open access long haul network network around Australia could be built for $2 billion and with it competition would be able to deliver affordable high speed access to much of Australia.
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Conroy to give telecom consumers more power UPDATED
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2008-03-11 23:41:58
Australian Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has called for greater consumer involvement in both the development of telecommunications policy and in industry self-regulation, and has accused the industry of tardiness in developing consumer protection codes.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2008-03-11 23:41:58
Australian Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has called for greater consumer involvement in both the development of telecommunications policy and in industry self-regulation, and has accused the industry of tardiness in developing consumer protection codes.
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Conroy names expert panel for fast-track FTTN network
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2008-03-11 00:39:37
Australian Communications minister, Stephen Conroy, has named six experts to assist in drawing up an RFP for its $4.7b next generation network and to assist in evaluating RFPs.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2008-03-11 00:39:37
Australian Communications minister, Stephen Conroy, has named six experts to assist in drawing up an RFP for its $4.7b next generation network and to assist in evaluating RFPs.
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Access regime "incapable" of dealing with the future fibre network
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2008-03-06 16:16:52
As the government prepares to spend $4.7b on a fibre to the node network and struggles with developing a suitable access regime, a PhD thesis by former Telstra executive, Ross Kelso , argues that the access regime is incapable of dealing with such a network.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2008-03-06 16:16:52
As the government prepares to spend $4.7b on a fibre to the node network and struggles with developing a suitable access regime, a PhD thesis by former Telstra executive, Ross Kelso , argues that the access regime is incapable of dealing with such a network.
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