 Cornered! is a blog on all things telecommunications, and a few others as well: local and global issues, technology, people and trends from the perspective of someone who's been observing, reporting, analysing and commenting on the industry since the dark ages (BC - before competition). Sometimes serious, sometimes flippant, sometimes frivolous. It aims to be controversial, analytical, informative, amusing, but never boring; a vehicle for examinations of important issues and observations on the encounters and experiences of a telecoms journalist dealing with an industry where polarised views and hyperbole are the norm.
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Thursday, 05 June 2008 |
iTWire questioned broadband satellite operator IPStar's choice of its exclusive Australian distributor when the deal was announced last November. So we are not the least bit surprised that IPStar now seems to be trying to get out of the deal.
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Tuesday, 03 June 2008 |
In the US Time Warner has introduced a broadband plan with a 'paltry' 5Gbyte data limit, outraging US commentators. But as consumers' appetite for video places ever more demand on networks they had better get used to it.
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Friday, 30 May 2008 |
Go into any data centre and you will see thousands of tiny lights, in the rows and rows of electronic gear. A UK company reckons these, and those on computing equipment in UK homes contribute 50,000 tonnes to CO2 emissions and waste £10m a year in energy costs.
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Tuesday, 27 May 2008 |
Optus has released a report, commissioned from the Competition Economists Group (CEG-Asia Pacific) to push its claim that Telstra should be structurally separated, but it is a document of little substance.
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Monday, 26 May 2008 |
Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo's recent claim that the cost of rolling out an FTTN network to 98 percent of Australian homes would be closer to $15b than the $8 billion in the government's estimate has been dismissed as "a vain attempt to scare off the opposition," but some industry players think his estimate is, if anything, too low.
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Monday, 26 May 2008 |
Google subsidiary YouTube has launched a CitizenNews section with the stated aim of becoming "the go to destination for news on the web." With many people now going first to Google for news does this mean they could soon not be going to traditional news sites at all!
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Thursday, 22 May 2008 |
Twenty years ago this Sunday the Hawke Labor Government set in train legislative changes that, in less than a decade, ended a century long history of provision of telecommunications services by government owned monopolies.
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Friday, 16 May 2008 |
Not exactly, but 100 years ago this week American inventor Nathan Stubblefield filed what is believed to be the first patent for a wireless telephone. A decade earlier an English scientist had clearly envisaged the possibility of global wireless communications using portable devices.
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Friday, 16 May 2008 |
The OECD says governments and business must "work together more effectively and urgently to meet the growing demand for Internet addresses and secure the future of the Internet economy," but the world knew a decade ago that this parlous state of affairs was inevitable: initiatives to date have clearly been inadequate.
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Thursday, 15 May 2008 |
Microsoft is expecting that 40 percent of smartphones sold in 2012 will be based on its Windows Mobile operating system. No doubt it won't be resting on its laurels if it gets there, but open source-based platforms, particularly LiMo, are making rapid headway.
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Tuesday, 13 May 2008 |
Telstra has provided to the government network information crucial to any other potential bidders for the $4.7b of government funding for a national broadband network, but there are few not-insignificant hurdles to be surmounted before they can get their hands on it.
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