 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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Tuesday, 09 December 2008 |
Ericsson scored a double whammy this week announcing upgrades of HSPA networks in Australia and Scandinavia to 21Mbps, the first in the world, but it's not just the speed upgrade that matters.
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Monday, 01 December 2008 |
With the RFPs for Australia's National Broadband Network now in, communications minister Stephen Conroy is talking about awarding contract(s) by the end of March, but the Australian Computer Society has re-iterated its warnings that figuring out what we are going to use the network for should be a national priority.
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Monday, 01 December 2008 |
Telstra's chairman has sunk to a new low in its attempts to discredit rivals in the battle for the National Broadband Network, branding former Telstra executives heading rival bidder, Acacia, as having "not done the company any good at all and not done a lot of good for the customers."
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Monday, 24 November 2008 |
Just before the 26 November deadline for the National Broadband Network RFP Telstra appears to be trying to spook the government into backing down from its brinkmanship with the 'release' of market research purportedly showing that the voters are solidly behind the idea of Telstra building the NBN, but these research findings need to be taken with a pinch of salt.
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Friday, 21 November 2008 |
By virtue of its size alone Telstra is the subject of more complaints to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman than any other telco. So when the TIO, concerned by the rapidly escalating volume of complaints, launches a campaign and promises to work with the industry to get the numbers down, what does Telstra do? Issue a press release in support? No, it launches an advertising campaign that is almost inviting consumers to complain - about the mobile services of its competitors. Opportunism perhaps?
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Friday, 21 November 2008 |
The pundits seem to be trying to outdo each other with forecasts for broadband uptake. One thinks the world has now passed the billion user milestone, and Ericsson reckons that in five years time 80 percent of all broadband connections will be mobile, which would be a serious problem for the builder of the National Broadband Network.
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Monday, 10 November 2008 |
Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo was telling investors last week that high speed broadband is central to his strategy, while claiming there is every possibility that Telstra won't be part of the Government's planned National Broadband Network. Interesting!
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Thursday, 06 November 2008 |
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Telstra this week announced alliances with both Microsoft and Cisco to deliver, amongst other things, unified communications services to enterprise customers.
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Wednesday, 05 November 2008 |
Shadow communications minister, Nick Minchin, has been damning in his criticism of the Rudd Government's broadband policy, but has failed to offer any alternative.
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Friday, 31 October 2008 |
Suggesting that the model of the country-specific telco may be outdated, market research firm Ovum is urging telcos to exploit the global financial crisis by seeking opportunities outside their own borders. But this has been tried before - with limited success.
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Tuesday, 28 October 2008 |
The rise of YouTube enabling anyone with a broadband connected and a video camera to create and share videos with the world has been astonishing. So imagine a world where millions of people with mobile phones can do exactly the same thing - live.
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