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In the midst of doom and gloom, mobile broadband has proven to be Australia's beacon of light, with the market doubling in the past year to more than $1 billion.

Telstra’s embarked on upgrades of 131 of its exchanges throughout Victoria which it says will give a further 84,000 homes and businesses across the state high speed ADSL2+ broadband services.

Communications Alliance, the peak industry body for the Australian communications industry, has called for a ‘NBN Digital Vision Day’ to set the direction for Australia’s transition to the broadband environment.

3 Mobile has today launched a new WiFi application that turns its customers’ mobile phones into mobile wireless hotspots.

Wholesale broadband provider, Nextep, is to accelerate its network services with an upgrade of its routing infrastructure by Juniper.

Broadband provider Internode has signed an agreement to use the new Basslink fibre-optic cable to significantly increase its data backhaul capacity between Tasmania and the mainland.

Visitors to the hallowed Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) now have free wireless Internet access thanks to a deal secured with broadband provider, Internode.

The latest forecasts on the growth of mobile broadband predict revenues of $137 billion globally by 2014 but, despite that, operators will have to content themselves with the fact that user growth will be far faster than actual revenue growth.

Telstra has been quick to respond to criticism of the capabilities of DOCSIS 3.0, and HFC networks in general, with a blog post on Nowwearetalking from its CTO, Hugh Bradlow.

Communications minister Stephen Conroy told the Senate during question time on Wednesday that a decision on the NBN was "just weeks away".

Mobile broadband offerings from Australian carriers don't differ much except on price, but that could change as the networks become more capacity constrained an operators seek to smooth out peaks and sell spare capacity at other times.