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Vodafone Australia has announced new services which it says, in collaboration with Cisco and Research in Motion (RIM), it has made available from today to all its Business One customers.

Just a week after Internode boss, Simon Hackett announced an FTTH service with speeds up to 100mbps and ridiculed the proposed NBN target speeds of 12mbps, the South Australian ISP has launched a new service which it says is designed to deliver high performance, fully symmetrical Internet access to Australian businesses.

There’s been a call for urgent action by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to intervene in Telstra’s plans to reportedly forcibly disconnect competitors in a Canberra exchange.

Israeli IP business telephony and communication supplier, Tadiran Telecom, is expanding its presence in the Australian market and has just appointed a 20 year industry veteran to help it realise its business plans for Australia.

Telstra is now making available to all consumer customers, what it says is an “innovative service” – the conversion of voicemail to text – after encouraging feedback from its business customers using the new service.

Telecommunications provider, AAPT claims a survey just released reveals an “alarming” increase in the telco costs of Australian households.

In a concerted bid to drive sales and grow market share in Australia, France Telecom brand, Orange, has appointed a new general manager for Queensland, New South Wales, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

Internet service provider EFTel Limited (ASX: EFT) has expanded its Wholesale Division - to be known as EFTel Wholesale in the wake of its recent acquisition of the Concept Group.