items tagged with Broadband
Unknown new ISP, myKP, offers broadband “with no download caps”
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2009-01-13 20:26:50
Could it really be true – an ISP in Australia offering broadband with no download caps? A new ISP called “myKP” says it will offer just that from January 26 but “initially” only on a limited basis in areas that can already access myKP’s Free Wi-Fi - although the service is expected to be offered to "everyone" in a "not too long" timeframe.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2009-01-13 20:26:50
Could it really be true – an ISP in Australia offering broadband with no download caps? A new ISP called “myKP” says it will offer just that from January 26 but “initially” only on a limited basis in areas that can already access myKP’s Free Wi-Fi - although the service is expected to be offered to "everyone" in a "not too long" timeframe.
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Mobile broadband customers tipped to exceed fixed
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Industry
2009-01-12 19:54:55
The number of mobile broadband services in Australia is tipped to exceeded fixed services within three years with bundled packages of services and laptops a big driver of growth.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Industry
2009-01-12 19:54:55
The number of mobile broadband services in Australia is tipped to exceeded fixed services within three years with bundled packages of services and laptops a big driver of growth.
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ispONE given right to wholesale ADSL2+ services on Telstra Network
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2009-01-12 19:14:07
Wholesale Internet, data and voice provider, ispONE, has struck a deal with Telstra to offer ADSL2+ broadband services on the Telstra network. The agreement expands on an existing wholesale relationship between the companies.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2009-01-12 19:14:07
Wholesale Internet, data and voice provider, ispONE, has struck a deal with Telstra to offer ADSL2+ broadband services on the Telstra network. The agreement expands on an existing wholesale relationship between the companies.
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Australian broadband users surged 22 percent in FY08 to 4.3m
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Industry
2008-12-17 23:03:30
An additional 800,000 Australian households signed up for broadband access services in the year to 30 June 2008 taking the number of broadband households to 4.3 million according to the latest figures the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Industry
2008-12-17 23:03:30
An additional 800,000 Australian households signed up for broadband access services in the year to 30 June 2008 taking the number of broadband households to 4.3 million according to the latest figures the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
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Media Q&A with Conroy over Telstra NBN exclusion
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-15 02:10:47
Australia's Minister for Communications, Senator Stephen Conroy, held a press briefing at 2.30pm today to discuss Telstra being excluded from the National Broadband Network (NBN) process. Here is the transcript of the Q&A session with the assembled media thereafter, supplied by the Senator's spokesperson and media adviser, Tim Marshall.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-15 02:10:47
Australia's Minister for Communications, Senator Stephen Conroy, held a press briefing at 2.30pm today to discuss Telstra being excluded from the National Broadband Network (NBN) process. Here is the transcript of the Q&A session with the assembled media thereafter, supplied by the Senator's spokesperson and media adviser, Tim Marshall.
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Conroy “a manifest failure” over Telstra NBN exclusion: Minchin
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-14 17:58:41
Australia’s Shadow Communications Minister, Senator Nick Minchin, has savaged the Rudd Labor Government and the Minister for Communications, Senator Stephen Conroy, over the “total ineptitude and mishandling” of the NBN process which has now seen Telstra excluded for a “remarkable” and “trivial reason”.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-14 17:58:41
Australia’s Shadow Communications Minister, Senator Nick Minchin, has savaged the Rudd Labor Government and the Minister for Communications, Senator Stephen Conroy, over the “total ineptitude and mishandling” of the NBN process which has now seen Telstra excluded for a “remarkable” and “trivial reason”.
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Conroy: don’t be coy on Telstra proposal, says Minchin
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-14 00:08:40
It might be the political silly season but the Shadow Minister for Communications is pouring the pressure onto Minister for Communications, Senator Stephen Conroy, to come clean on whether Telstra’s “non-compliant proposal” has “made the cut” in the bid to build the NBN.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-14 00:08:40
It might be the political silly season but the Shadow Minister for Communications is pouring the pressure onto Minister for Communications, Senator Stephen Conroy, to come clean on whether Telstra’s “non-compliant proposal” has “made the cut” in the bid to build the NBN.
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Government talkfest needs to spark action
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-12-12 00:49:51
Australia's favourite Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy and his state and territory counterparts (plus a local government representative) have put their heads together and come up with a motherhood statement on broadband.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-12-12 00:49:51
Australia's favourite Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy and his state and territory counterparts (plus a local government representative) have put their heads together and come up with a motherhood statement on broadband.
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iPrimus offers unmetered ABC TV iView, too!
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-11 00:31:42
Following on from yesterday’s announcement that Internode has joined iiNet in offering unmetered access to ABC TV’s iView “TV-on-demand” service, iPrimus has issued a press release today advising it has done so, too – while expanding its unmetered offerings to a range of other content. Rejoice!
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-11 00:31:42
Following on from yesterday’s announcement that Internode has joined iiNet in offering unmetered access to ABC TV’s iView “TV-on-demand” service, iPrimus has issued a press release today advising it has done so, too – while expanding its unmetered offerings to a range of other content. Rejoice!
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Conroy cries “crikey!” over Opposition broadband “insult”
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-09 22:04:37
Ok, so Senator Stephen Conroy, the Minister for Communications, didn’t quite say “Crikey!” but he’s not happy over the claimed “shambolic broadband stunt” from the Federal Opposition which is an “insult to regional voters”.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-09 22:04:37
Ok, so Senator Stephen Conroy, the Minister for Communications, didn’t quite say “Crikey!” but he’s not happy over the claimed “shambolic broadband stunt” from the Federal Opposition which is an “insult to regional voters”.
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Aussie NBN network already being bypassed by Next G?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-07 20:47:21
With plenty of talk recently about how wireless technologies could make the proposed Australian "National Broadband Network" or NBN redundant, Telstra is already demonstrating an 800km rollout of fibre in the Northern Territory alongside wireless solutions that are serving rural and regional Australia with high-speed broadband – today.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-07 20:47:21
With plenty of talk recently about how wireless technologies could make the proposed Australian "National Broadband Network" or NBN redundant, Telstra is already demonstrating an 800km rollout of fibre in the Northern Territory alongside wireless solutions that are serving rural and regional Australia with high-speed broadband – today.
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World’s first 21Mbps eHSPA/HSPA+ data “call” made in Australia
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-07 19:26:19
Although data “calls” on 21Mbps networks and equipment have been made in the labs and in demonstrations, Australia is the first place in the world where such a call has been made on a commercial, deployed 21Mbps eHSPA network, with a full commercial launch due early 2009.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-07 19:26:19
Although data “calls” on 21Mbps networks and equipment have been made in the labs and in demonstrations, Australia is the first place in the world where such a call has been made on a commercial, deployed 21Mbps eHSPA network, with a full commercial launch due early 2009.
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M2 announces friendly takeover of People Telecom
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Mergers & Acquisitions
2008-12-04 20:31:59
Junior telco M2 Telecommunications Group (ASX: MTU) and struggling broadband provider People Telecom (ASX: PEO) have announced a friendly merger, which will see M2 acquire all of the smaller company's shares.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Mergers & Acquisitions
2008-12-04 20:31:59
Junior telco M2 Telecommunications Group (ASX: MTU) and struggling broadband provider People Telecom (ASX: PEO) have announced a friendly merger, which will see M2 acquire all of the smaller company's shares.
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With no NBN, ADSL2+ will drive the “next five years of broadband”
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-03 05:57:39
Telecommunications research firm Market Clarity says that Aussies are switching to high-speed ADSL 2+ services, “with or without the government’s NBN”, in a trend that “will drive the next five years of broadband market development”.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-03 05:57:39
Telecommunications research firm Market Clarity says that Aussies are switching to high-speed ADSL 2+ services, “with or without the government’s NBN”, in a trend that “will drive the next five years of broadband market development”.
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CEDA says competition not NBN is key to broadband success
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2008-12-03 04:37:21
Leading economic think tank CEDA (Committee for Economic Development of Australia) has criticised the Federal Government's obsession with building the National Broadband Network, saying a subsidised $4.7 billion FTTN rollout is unnecessary. CEDA's report, Australia’s Broadband Future: Four doors to greater competition, maintains that focussing on FTTN to the exclusion of competing access methods will decrease competition.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2008-12-03 04:37:21
Leading economic think tank CEDA (Committee for Economic Development of Australia) has criticised the Federal Government's obsession with building the National Broadband Network, saying a subsidised $4.7 billion FTTN rollout is unnecessary. CEDA's report, Australia’s Broadband Future: Four doors to greater competition, maintains that focussing on FTTN to the exclusion of competing access methods will decrease competition.
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Quaking Quilty questions Singtel Optus $10 billion NBN “black hole”
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-11-27 21:50:20
With many believing Telstra is set to win the National Broadband Network (NBN) tender, come what may, Telstra’s David Quilty is going out on an all-out attack on Singtel Optus, questioning its “$10 billion funding hole” and labelling it a “sub-prime NBN bidder”.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-11-27 21:50:20
With many believing Telstra is set to win the National Broadband Network (NBN) tender, come what may, Telstra’s David Quilty is going out on an all-out attack on Singtel Optus, questioning its “$10 billion funding hole” and labelling it a “sub-prime NBN bidder”.
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NEC Australia wins $15 million government broadband kiosk deal
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology Industry
Category: Deals & Wheels - Government
2008-11-27 15:07:22
In a deal worth $15 million, NEC Australia has inked a contract with the Federal Government to supply 2,000 broadband Internet kiosks to community centres for aged Australians across the country.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology Industry
Category: Deals & Wheels - Government
2008-11-27 15:07:22
In a deal worth $15 million, NEC Australia has inked a contract with the Federal Government to supply 2,000 broadband Internet kiosks to community centres for aged Australians across the country.
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Telstra makes mockery of NBN tender process
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2008-11-26 23:12:37
It really makes no difference whether a Howard Coalition or a Rudd Labor Government is in power, Telstra obviously considers itself answerable to no-one. What other conclusion can be drawn from the monolithic telco's action of answering the Government's RFP to build the National Broadband Network with a non-compliant 12-page document?
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2008-11-26 23:12:37
It really makes no difference whether a Howard Coalition or a Rudd Labor Government is in power, Telstra obviously considers itself answerable to no-one. What other conclusion can be drawn from the monolithic telco's action of answering the Government's RFP to build the National Broadband Network with a non-compliant 12-page document?
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Conroy: no guarantee of 98 percent NBN coverage
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Networks
2008-11-26 21:01:46
Stephen Conroy, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, has said there is no guarantee that the National Broadband Network (NBN) will cover 98 percent of Australians and businesses. The Minister made breathtaking admission under intense scrutiny from the media.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Networks
2008-11-26 21:01:46
Stephen Conroy, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, has said there is no guarantee that the National Broadband Network (NBN) will cover 98 percent of Australians and businesses. The Minister made breathtaking admission under intense scrutiny from the media.
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Minister welcomes NBN bids
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2008-11-26 00:46:39
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has welcomed the proposals to build the National Broadband Network (NBN) - "one of the largest infrastructure investments undertaken by any Australian Government" - but has warned contenders that they face "an extremely competitive assessment process."
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2008-11-26 00:46:39
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has welcomed the proposals to build the National Broadband Network (NBN) - "one of the largest infrastructure investments undertaken by any Australian Government" - but has warned contenders that they face "an extremely competitive assessment process."
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