Broadband
Tasmanian Government strangling the Internet?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Australia’s southern island, Tasmania, has two fibre optic connections to the mainland, but with only one carrying consumer and business traffic, and the other apparently laying idle. With major ISP, Internode, ceasing the sign-up of new ADSL2+ consumer customers, is the Apple isle suffering affordable Internet denial?
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Australia’s southern island, Tasmania, has two fibre optic connections to the mainland, but with only one carrying consumer and business traffic, and the other apparently laying idle. With major ISP, Internode, ceasing the sign-up of new ADSL2+ consumer customers, is the Apple isle suffering affordable Internet denial?
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A better way to measure broadband penetration; but...
By: Stuart Corner
The OECD is often criticised for the way it attempts to compare broadband penetration and usage in member countries. The Information Technology And Innovation Foundation (ITIF) has attempted a more meaningful comparison but it omits one very important parameter.
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By: Stuart Corner
The OECD is often criticised for the way it attempts to compare broadband penetration and usage in member countries. The Information Technology And Innovation Foundation (ITIF) has attempted a more meaningful comparison but it omits one very important parameter.
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Australian Liberal Party outraged over Government comms fund ‘raid’
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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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Huawei's technology support mixed FTTN and ADSL deployment
By: Stuart Corner
The question of whether a fibre to node network can be deployed without cutting off all exchange based ADSL services through a node has been the subject of much debate. Huawei claims that its latest product will enable operators to do exactly this.
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By: Stuart Corner
The question of whether a fibre to node network can be deployed without cutting off all exchange based ADSL services through a node has been the subject of much debate. Huawei claims that its latest product will enable operators to do exactly this.
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Wow, more mobile phones in Australia than Aussies!
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
There’s 21 million Australians – and 21.26 million phone services “in operation” as at 30 June 2007 – meaning more mobile phones than Australians. We aren’t just the lucky country, we’re the connected country, too!
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
There’s 21 million Australians – and 21.26 million phone services “in operation” as at 30 June 2007 – meaning more mobile phones than Australians. We aren’t just the lucky country, we’re the connected country, too!
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New Zealand National Party promises fibre to the home
By: Stuart Corner
The countries are different and so are the political parties but the pre-election announcement by New Zealand's National Party that it would invest $NZ1.5 billion over the next six years to rollout fibre to the majority of New Zealand homes bears many similarities to the Australian Labor Party's pre-election pledge of March 2007: and just look at the mess the ALP has now got itself into!
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By: Stuart Corner
The countries are different and so are the political parties but the pre-election announcement by New Zealand's National Party that it would invest $NZ1.5 billion over the next six years to rollout fibre to the majority of New Zealand homes bears many similarities to the Australian Labor Party's pre-election pledge of March 2007: and just look at the mess the ALP has now got itself into!
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HTC Shift lands in Australia at last
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
The long awaited HTC shift, a 7-inch ultra-portable Windows Vista Business computer, merged with a Windows Mobile style device, has finally landed in Australia, but it isn’t cheap!
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
The long awaited HTC shift, a 7-inch ultra-portable Windows Vista Business computer, merged with a Windows Mobile style device, has finally landed in Australia, but it isn’t cheap!
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New bush broadband comms network to save lives in Western Australia
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
The state of Western Australia (WA) is Australia’s largest, covering an enormous area that truly brings to life the “tyranny of distance”. But now, a new broadband communications network in WA aims to bring comms in the bush firmly into the 21st century – at last!
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
The state of Western Australia (WA) is Australia’s largest, covering an enormous area that truly brings to life the “tyranny of distance”. But now, a new broadband communications network in WA aims to bring comms in the bush firmly into the 21st century – at last!
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Internode finds going ‘naked’ is very popular... for ADSL2+
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Consumers keen to strip away the shackles of line rental by going naked with ADSL2+ have ogled Internode’s Naked ADSL2+ offerings with well over 1000 sign-ups. It seems that Internode shown that things can look better... naked – and is now offering the service to those with existing phone lines, too.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Consumers keen to strip away the shackles of line rental by going naked with ADSL2+ have ogled Internode’s Naked ADSL2+ offerings with well over 1000 sign-ups. It seems that Internode shown that things can look better... naked – and is now offering the service to those with existing phone lines, too.
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Telstra gets ‘ok’ to Close Down ‘CDMA’ Mobile Architecture
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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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Watch out, Joost: Adobe’s Media Player “amps” up the ante!
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Adobe’s new cross platform, customisable ‘Adobe Media Player’, or AMP, offers a range of well known TV programming from CSI: NY to Star Trek and plenty more from major players, giving ‘video consumers’ a whole new channel to watch!
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Adobe’s new cross platform, customisable ‘Adobe Media Player’, or AMP, offers a range of well known TV programming from CSI: NY to Star Trek and plenty more from major players, giving ‘video consumers’ a whole new channel to watch!
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Telstra completes 900 exchange ADSL2+ upgrade
By: Stuart Corner
Telstra has announced completion of the rollout of ADSL2+ services to an additional 907 exchanges, announced in February, four months ahead of schedule.
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By: Stuart Corner
Telstra has announced completion of the rollout of ADSL2+ services to an additional 907 exchanges, announced in February, four months ahead of schedule.
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Telstra massively upgrades US-Australia undersea cable link
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Telstra has worked with Alcatel-Lucent to lay a 9,000 kilometre submarine cable between Hawaii and Australia, giving up to 1.28 Terabits per second of connectivity between the two countries.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Telstra has worked with Alcatel-Lucent to lay a 9,000 kilometre submarine cable between Hawaii and Australia, giving up to 1.28 Terabits per second of connectivity between the two countries.
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FTTN needn't displace ADSL, says ISP
By: Stephen Withers
The idea that the rollout of a fibre to the node (FTTN) network would mean the removal of existing copper-based services is a "myth", according to the managing director of a substantial ISP.
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By: Stephen Withers
The idea that the rollout of a fibre to the node (FTTN) network would mean the removal of existing copper-based services is a "myth", according to the managing director of a substantial ISP.
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Telstra’s Next G goes Big Brother with remote monitoring
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Got CDMA monitoring equipment and worried it won’t work with Next G? Stop worrying – it won’t work, so Telstra has worked with the University of New England, RMCam and Canon to bring vision and telemetry services to you, but naturally it means buying new equipment.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Got CDMA monitoring equipment and worried it won’t work with Next G? Stop worrying – it won’t work, so Telstra has worked with the University of New England, RMCam and Canon to bring vision and telemetry services to you, but naturally it means buying new equipment.
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The non-sniffable OPEL smell of WiMAX
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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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The superfast “Grid” – broadband on steroids and the end of the Earth?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
An online report is suggesting a ‘superfast’ Internet will allow movie downloads in seconds, thanks to data collection capabilities needed for the Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator that some fear will destroy the Earth.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
An online report is suggesting a ‘superfast’ Internet will allow movie downloads in seconds, thanks to data collection capabilities needed for the Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator that some fear will destroy the Earth.
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Australian Government kills Opel broadband venture
By: Stuart Corner
The Federal Government has told the Opel Optus/elders JV that was granted almost $1b of federal funding to roll out regional broadband services that it has not met requirements, and the contract has been terminated.
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By: Stuart Corner
The Federal Government has told the Opel Optus/elders JV that was granted almost $1b of federal funding to roll out regional broadband services that it has not met requirements, and the contract has been terminated.
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