 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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Monday, 29 October 2007 |
It was one of those fortuitous coincidences Shortly after I wrote a report this morning on the US web site, PlayerBlock , where you can slag your latest date for all to read, so long as they have that person's mobile phone number, I received one of Ovum's regular comment pieces. This one on the new challenges we all face through the rapid emergence of social networking.
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Monday, 29 October 2007 |
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Last month iTWire brought you reports of a service in the US that enables you to fake the phone number you appear to be calling from - the biggest users are curious lovers wondering if their soul mate or partner is cheating. Now we report on another with equally dubious ethics.
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Sunday, 28 October 2007 |
In Australia telecommunications policy is on the backburner until after the election, full operational separation of Telstra is still only an academic discussion and Telstra's FTTN rollout has been officially on hold for two years. Meanwhile across the Tasman, it's a different story.
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Friday, 12 October 2007 |
Communications minister Helen Coonan has claimed that a news story in the Financial Review this week which reported her as saying that the Government might be prepared to fund a fibre to the home rollout, rather than fibre to the node, should the Expert Task Force recommends such, took her remarks out of context. Her claim is not very convincing.
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Friday, 12 October 2007 |
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Last month I reported on a campaign in the UK that was lobbying Government to instruct Ofcom (the equivalent body to the Australian Communications and Media Authority) to force ISPs to advertise a typical rate for broadband subscriptions, not just a theoretical 'maximum' rate. It is making considerable headway.
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Wednesday, 10 October 2007 |
Maybe the frosty relations between the Government and Telstra are thawing. With an election announcement expected any day now communications minister Helen Coonan has just announced that Telstra will install ADSL in more than 200 rural exchanges, with funding from the Australian Broadband Guarantee scheme.
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Tuesday, 09 October 2007 |
Three Australians have launched crowdfound.com, billing it as the world's first human-powered 'best of the web' discovery engine, and saying that it is designed to overcome the limitations of search engines. But is it really a substitute for search?
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Saturday, 29 September 2007 |
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You might have an ADSL2+ service that promise broadband at "up to 20Mbps" but what you get depends on how close you are to the exchange and how good your line is, but those caveats are usually relegated to the fine print. It's the same in the UK, but over there users are pushing ISPs to be more candid. Maybe Australia should follow their lead.
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Thursday, 27 September 2007 |
I don't know whether it was deliberate or not but Seven's bid for Unwired coming in the midst of the WiMAX World in Chicago could not have been better timed to focus attention on Seven's WiMAX ambitions.
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Monday, 24 September 2007 |
Telstra's telesales person was trying to get me to switch my home phone back to Telstra. He did not like me correcting his misinformation about Optus.
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Sunday, 23 September 2007 |
Telstra has sent out a survey to all shareholders with their dividend statement saying it is "about important policy issues that affect the competitive environment of the company and the value of your shareholding." It's a joke.
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