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Structural Separation: Conroy's second big surprise
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-09-15 00:33:54
The legislation announced today by communications minister Stephen Conroy goes further than most of the industry had expected "I keep checking that the date isn't 1st April" one CE commented). It's the second big surprise the minister has pulled out of the hat this year.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-09-15 00:33:54
The legislation announced today by communications minister Stephen Conroy goes further than most of the industry had expected "I keep checking that the date isn't 1st April" one CE commented). It's the second big surprise the minister has pulled out of the hat this year.
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Legislation "unnecessary" says Telstra, and the Opposition agrees
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-14 23:41:24
Telstra says the government's proposed legislation putting it under intense pressure to structurally separate is unnecessary given that Telstra is actively discussing its involvement in the National Broadband Network.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-14 23:41:24
Telstra says the government's proposed legislation putting it under intense pressure to structurally separate is unnecessary given that Telstra is actively discussing its involvement in the National Broadband Network.
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New legislation gives greater protection to Telstra competitors
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-14 22:32:05
The Government has unveiled legislation that would create the biggest shift in the telecommunications competition and access regime since market liberalisation in 1997.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-14 22:32:05
The Government has unveiled legislation that would create the biggest shift in the telecommunications competition and access regime since market liberalisation in 1997.
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Telstra faces structural separation: Government ultimatum
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-14 20:48:46
Telstra has been given an ultimatum by the government: either cease to be both an owner of and service provider on the PSTN or face forced functional separation, divestiture of its HFC and Foxtel assets and limitations on spectrum acquisition.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-14 20:48:46
Telstra has been given an ultimatum by the government: either cease to be both an owner of and service provider on the PSTN or face forced functional separation, divestiture of its HFC and Foxtel assets and limitations on spectrum acquisition.
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Avaya secures Nortel Enterprise Systems with double its initial bid
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-14 16:51:20
Avaya has won the auction for Nortel Enterprise Solutions, paying almost double the $US475m price in its stalking horse bid announced in July.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-14 16:51:20
Avaya has won the auction for Nortel Enterprise Solutions, paying almost double the $US475m price in its stalking horse bid announced in July.
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NBN Co's top execs named
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-14 07:39:13
The NBN Co has named five senior executives, all with strong backgrounds in various aspects of telecommunications. Christy Boyce (head of industry engagement); Greg Willis (head of program delivery); Jean-Pascal Beaufret (CFO); Kevin Brown (chief human resources officer & head of corporate services) and Tim Smeallie (head of commercial strategy)
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-14 07:39:13
The NBN Co has named five senior executives, all with strong backgrounds in various aspects of telecommunications. Christy Boyce (head of industry engagement); Greg Willis (head of program delivery); Jean-Pascal Beaufret (CFO); Kevin Brown (chief human resources officer & head of corporate services) and Tim Smeallie (head of commercial strategy)
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Major telcos promise to tell the truth when advertising
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-14 02:11:45
Australia's three largest telecoms operators (and their subsidiary MVNOs) have given a court enforceable undertaking to the ACCC that, according to the ACCC, commits them to "the basic principle of truth in advertising."
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-14 02:11:45
Australia's three largest telecoms operators (and their subsidiary MVNOs) have given a court enforceable undertaking to the ACCC that, according to the ACCC, commits them to "the basic principle of truth in advertising."
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Gov't response to international roaming enquiry offers little
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-14 01:08:07
In early 2008 Atug launched a campaign against excessive and largely unexpected international mobile roaming charges. There was a parliamentary enquiry and several recommendations for government action. Government has now tabled its response offering little that is likely to see prices come down.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-14 01:08:07
In early 2008 Atug launched a campaign against excessive and largely unexpected international mobile roaming charges. There was a parliamentary enquiry and several recommendations for government action. Government has now tabled its response offering little that is likely to see prices come down.
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VHA close to being Australia's number two mobile operator
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-13 23:31:16
VHA, the mobile operator formed from the merger of Vodafone Australia and Hutchison Australia, has overtaken Optus in 3G customer numbers, has the highest monthly per customer revenue of any of the three operators and is neck-and-neck with Optus on overall revenues, according to market researcher, Telsyte.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-13 23:31:16
VHA, the mobile operator formed from the merger of Vodafone Australia and Hutchison Australia, has overtaken Optus in 3G customer numbers, has the highest monthly per customer revenue of any of the three operators and is neck-and-neck with Optus on overall revenues, according to market researcher, Telsyte.
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Telco-driven netbook sales turning PC industry upside down
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-13 20:40:08
Netbooks, products that did not exist two years ago, are driving the biggest transformation in the PC industry in 15 years, largely because of telcos enthusiastically promoting netbooks with subsidies as they do cellphones, according to research firm Canalys.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-13 20:40:08
Netbooks, products that did not exist two years ago, are driving the biggest transformation in the PC industry in 15 years, largely because of telcos enthusiastically promoting netbooks with subsidies as they do cellphones, according to research firm Canalys.
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Have your say in improving Internet security
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-13 19:48:17
The Internet Industry Association is developing an eSecurity code to help ISPs improve Internet security by checking customers' computers for malicious activity. It envisages ISPs being able, in extreme cases, to disconnect compromised computers. The IIA has invited comments on the draft version.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-13 19:48:17
The Internet Industry Association is developing an eSecurity code to help ISPs improve Internet security by checking customers' computers for malicious activity. It envisages ISPs being able, in extreme cases, to disconnect compromised computers. The IIA has invited comments on the draft version.
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Telstra's competitors warn ACCC its decision will mean higher prices
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-13 02:48:57
The CEOs of seven of Telstra's fixed line competitors - Netspace; Macquarie Telecom; Optus; iiNet; Primus; Internode and TransACT - have written to ACCC chairman, Graeme Samuel, warning that the ACCC's recently published indicative prices for fixed line services, if implemented, would lead to a significant increase in prices of services to end users.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-13 02:48:57
The CEOs of seven of Telstra's fixed line competitors - Netspace; Macquarie Telecom; Optus; iiNet; Primus; Internode and TransACT - have written to ACCC chairman, Graeme Samuel, warning that the ACCC's recently published indicative prices for fixed line services, if implemented, would lead to a significant increase in prices of services to end users.
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Ratification of 802.11n WLAN standard will usher in new features
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-12 17:45:33
Seven years after it kicked off the process the IEEE has ratified the 802.11n WLAN standard. 'Draft n' products have been on the market for several years,' but, ratification will see a new wave of innovation because to date these products have implemented only a small subset of features available in the standard, says 802.11 working group member, Matthew Gast.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-12 17:45:33
Seven years after it kicked off the process the IEEE has ratified the 802.11n WLAN standard. 'Draft n' products have been on the market for several years,' but, ratification will see a new wave of innovation because to date these products have implemented only a small subset of features available in the standard, says 802.11 working group member, Matthew Gast.
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IEEE standardises 10G EPON for FTTH networks
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-11 18:38:11
The IEEE Standards Board has announced the approval of an amendment to the ethernet standard (802.3) which adds a new specification for 10Gbps on point-to-multipoint passive optical networks used for FTTH rollouts like Australia's NBN.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-11 18:38:11
The IEEE Standards Board has announced the approval of an amendment to the ethernet standard (802.3) which adds a new specification for 10Gbps on point-to-multipoint passive optical networks used for FTTH rollouts like Australia's NBN.
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Motorola debuts Android phone optimised for social networking
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-10 16:17:56
Motorola has unveiled its first Android phone and an innovative feature, Motoblur, that automatically syncs users' contacts, posts, messages etc from popular social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, web based email accounts such as Gmail and standard POP email accounts, provides automatic backup and replication of the user's personalisation on a new device if one is lost or stolen.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-10 16:17:56
Motorola has unveiled its first Android phone and an innovative feature, Motoblur, that automatically syncs users' contacts, posts, messages etc from popular social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, web based email accounts such as Gmail and standard POP email accounts, provides automatic backup and replication of the user's personalisation on a new device if one is lost or stolen.
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Competition Tribunal rules on access to Telstra wholesale services
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-10 02:32:32
In a decision unlikely to please many of Telstra's competitors, the Australian Competition Tribunal has, according to the ACCC, confirmed the ACCC's view that there is a case for winding back regulated access to Telstra's wholesale voice services in certain metropolitan and CBD areas, when and where competition has sufficiently developed.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-10 02:32:32
In a decision unlikely to please many of Telstra's competitors, the Australian Competition Tribunal has, according to the ACCC, confirmed the ACCC's view that there is a case for winding back regulated access to Telstra's wholesale voice services in certain metropolitan and CBD areas, when and where competition has sufficiently developed.
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Verizon & Sybase to manage corporates' mobile 'fleets'
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-10 00:43:00
Verizon Business has launched a service for large corporates, to be offered worldwide, managing and supporting their growing 'fleets' of mobile devices. For some of its components the service will use technology from Sybase. Rollout in Asia Pacific is scheduled for later this year.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-10 00:43:00
Verizon Business has launched a service for large corporates, to be offered worldwide, managing and supporting their growing 'fleets' of mobile devices. For some of its components the service will use technology from Sybase. Rollout in Asia Pacific is scheduled for later this year.
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Cisco talks up intercompany Telepresence
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-09 22:28:25
Cisco says there are now eight major carriers offering intercompany telepresence services enabling their combined total of 350 Telepresence customers in 150 countries to set up high definition videoconferences with each other, and that intercompany Telepresence traffic is growing at 35 percent per month.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-09 22:28:25
Cisco says there are now eight major carriers offering intercompany telepresence services enabling their combined total of 350 Telepresence customers in 150 countries to set up high definition videoconferences with each other, and that intercompany Telepresence traffic is growing at 35 percent per month.
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NZ Gov't promises 100Mbps FTTP to 93 percent of rural schools
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-09 22:09:22
New Zealand's communications and IT minister, Steven Joyce, has spelt out the government's rural broadband targets, promising that an estimated $NZ300m will be spent over six years to give 93 percent of rural schools fibre delivering at least 100Mbps and the remaining seven percent getting at least 10Mbps. More than 80 percent of rural households will get at least 5Mbps and the remainder at least 1Mbps.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-09 22:09:22
New Zealand's communications and IT minister, Steven Joyce, has spelt out the government's rural broadband targets, promising that an estimated $NZ300m will be spent over six years to give 93 percent of rural schools fibre delivering at least 100Mbps and the remaining seven percent getting at least 10Mbps. More than 80 percent of rural households will get at least 5Mbps and the remainder at least 1Mbps.
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ShoreTel IP PBX first to integrate with Skype for SIP
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-09 20:46:35
IP PBX developer, ShoreTel, has achieved what it says is the first SIP interoperability with Skype, enabling organisations using the ShoreTel IP PBX to have all their outgoing calls routed via Skype and to put a click-to-call logo on their web sites that will enable Skype users to call them, via Skype at no charge.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-09 20:46:35
IP PBX developer, ShoreTel, has achieved what it says is the first SIP interoperability with Skype, enabling organisations using the ShoreTel IP PBX to have all their outgoing calls routed via Skype and to put a click-to-call logo on their web sites that will enable Skype users to call them, via Skype at no charge.
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