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NBN will not happen but structural separation will says Gen-i boss
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles

Category: IT blog

2009-03-11 03:34:10
The departure of Sol Trujillo from Telstra will pave the way for structural separation of the carrier and the NBN is dead in the water says the Australian boss of Telecom NZ's giant services subsidiary Gen-i. What's more, regulation will continue to play a big role in the newly separated Telstra.


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Conroy's finest hour or depth of despair as NBN decision looms
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles

Category: IT blog

2009-03-10 09:03:58
There is a growing feeling that the coming week could well shape up to be one of the most significant turning points in Australian telecommunications history. The Federal Government, represented by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, has a monumental decision to make and an equally monumental problem on its hands.


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Telstra has big plans for interactive services
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: ExchangeDaily

2009-03-10 00:39:34
While the headline from today's announcement by Telstra of plans to upgrade its HFC network in Melbourne to DOCSIS 3.0 might be the downstream bandwidth of 100Mbps, according to CEO Sol Trujillo the upstream bandwidth of 2.0Mbps is just as important and maybe more so and it (or rather the services it will enable) is what customers have been asking for.


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Some answers to 100Mbps Telstra cable questions
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications

Category: News

2009-03-09 19:51:52
A media and analyst briefing for Telstra’s 100Mbps cable announcement has elicited a few answers to pressing questions.


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Telstra to smash NBN with 100Mbps cable upgrade?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications

Category: News

2009-03-09 17:20:29
By the end of the year, Melburnians using Telstra’s hybrid fibre co-ax network will be able to upgrade to super-fast 100Mbps speeds thanks to a massive DOCSIS 3.0 upgrade, with other cities to come presumably later in 2010, 200Mbps speeds a future possibility and at least $300 million spent this year alone.


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Internode in the market with new ‘high performance’ Internet access service for business
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Services

2009-03-05 20:27:52

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.


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Want to increase GDP? Adopt broadband faster
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles

Category: IT blog

2009-03-05 05:42:45
Faster broadband adoption would usher in an age of renewed prosperity if a new European study is to be believed. Furthermore, the economic benefits would be felt the most in the recession strapped first world countries where ICT skills are high.


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Telstra says study predicts huge productivity dividend from mobile broadband
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news

Category: Telecoms

2009-03-04 03:43:27

Australia can expect an annual productivity dividend of $7.4 billion from mobile broadband, or the equivalent of $250 for every household, according to a market study released by Telstra.


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Conroy talks up NBN at CeBIT broadband forum
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles

Category: IT blog

2009-03-03 22:51:32
The National Broadband Network (NBN) will be the greatest thing since sliced bread and is the answer to Australia's economic woes, if one is to believe the rhetoric from the Minister for Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy Stephen Conroy at the world's biggest technology trade fair this week. Speaking to a high level conference on broadband at CeBIT in Hannover Germany, Senator Conroy equated the NBN with economic stimulus.


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Vodafone to bring 3G access to New Zealand rural subscribers
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Networks

2009-03-02 22:53:55

Vodafone is moving faster than expected to roll out its 3G network across New Zealand with the company now saying it will expand coverage to 97 percent of the country a year ahead of schedule.


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EFTel goes into the red
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Industry

2009-03-02 16:18:51
ISP EFTel (ASX: EFT) has reported a half-year revenues increase of five percent to $19m, its highest ever, and a net loss after tax of $1.7m, compared to a net profit of $146k in the previous corresponding period.


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Telstra gets on with winning business despite its problems
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Industry

2009-03-02 05:50:51
Well, Telstra might have its problems with exclusion from the NBN, falling fixed line revenues, Sol’s departure and now the long-expected offloading of Kaz.  Brushing all that aside, however, the big T still forges ahead with core business, announcing a new contract today to deploy fibre to the home broadband (FTTH) in a South Australian housing estate and, just a few days ago, a seriously large contract to deploy the Cisco TelePresence system for the federal government across all states and territories and a number of government departments.


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Optus gets naked with iiNet and others, what now Telstra?
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles

Category: IT blog

2009-03-02 04:43:33
Competition in the Australian voice and broadband market just got a lot hotter with Optus announcing a naked DSL service running at ADSL2+ speeds, meaning customers can now take out a broadband DSL plan without having to pay an added PSTN telephone line rental charge. Optus, Australia's second largest broadband provider, joins the number three ISP iiNet and a bevy of smaller providers now offering naked DSL plans, putting further pressure on Telstra's PSTN business.


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Internode boss slams NBN, as 100mbps FTTH announced
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news

Category: Market News

2009-02-26 20:39:26
South Australian-based ISP, Internode, says it has ‘upped the ante’ with its announcement of a 100mpbs fibre to the home broadband service, while CEO Simon Hackett ridiculed the proposed National Broadband Network’s target speed of 12mbps.


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More ISPs invited to offer subsidised broadband
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2009-02-25 23:04:43
While we're waiting for a decision on who will build the National Broadband Network, the federal government has announced a new round under the Australian Broadband Guarantee scheme. And the minister has pointed out that people affected by recent natural disasters may qualify for a subsidy under the Guarantee.


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Senator Conroy joins CeBIT Hannover 2009 delegation
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news

Category: E-Government

2009-02-23 06:56:32
Federal Communications Minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, will hot foot it over to Germany next month to be part of a high-powered Australian delegation to visit the world's largest technology fair CeBIT in Hannover.


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NetComm says it ‘raises the bar’ with its prototype 21Mbps mobile broadband router
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature

Category: Enterprise

2009-02-22 21:00:46

NetComm, an Australian developer and supplier of high performance broadband communications devices, says it is preparing to launch what it claims is “the world’s first 21Mbps embedded 3G router with all the bells and whistles” with the looming launch of 21Mbps networks worldwide.


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Gotalk goes with Telstra for ADSL2+, launches 3G mobile plan
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications

Category: News

2009-02-20 06:43:01
Although Gotalk has long worked with Optus to resell ADSL services, it has now announced a wholesale broadband deal with Telstra, “targeting” regional Australia, including Tassie - along with a separate new 3G mobile plan that has one whopper of a video call charge, although international calling is the big drawcard.


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Consumer vendors not ready for IPv6: report
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature

Category: Enterprise

2009-02-20 00:42:17
The consumer sector could be Australia's stumbling block when it comes to IPv6 transition, according to new research.


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Some answers to Telstra 21Mbps Next G questions
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology feature

Category: Enterprise

2009-02-18 02:59:40
In an article written before Telstra’s press conference heralding the upgrade of its Next G network to “peak speeds” of 21Mbps, I posed some questions that have now been answered.


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