EU sets out 'internet rights' to protect users Just as movie downloads hit the headlines in Australia through the AFACT/iiNet case in Sydney, the European Union has passed into law a set of internet rights to protect users from arbitrary crackdowns on people who illegally download music and movies.
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Fixed WiMAX network operator, BigAir (ASX: BGL) is expanding its network into Perth, Adelaide and the Gold Coast using equipment from its current WiMAX gear supplier, Airspan Networks.
The CTOs of some of the word's leading IT&T vendors - including Cisco and Microsoft - and some of the largest telcos - including BT, NTT and Telstra - have joined forces in a bid to rationalise what they see as an excess of different, and sometimes competing, organisations developing IT&T standards.
Sybase 365 has launched what it says is the first system that fulfils the key emerging need of future mobile operators: enabling them to host and provide messaging and other applications deliverable across different networks in an all-IP world.
Virgin Mobile has introduced a battery-powered 3G wireless modem router and WiFi access point that enables three computers to simultaneously access the Internet over the Optus 3G network. It is claimed to be the first such device on the market in Australia.
In February, Alcatel-Lucent launched, ng Connect, an ambitious initiative to create a community of industry players dedicated to developing applications for future broadband networks, like Australia's NBN. It is starting to gain traction, with the opening of two test labs and the addition of five new members taking the total to 26.
There are not enough sitting days left in the Parliamentary calendar to adequately debate the proposed regulatory changes to the telecommunicaitons sector this year, the leader of the Opposition in the Senate Nick Minchin says.
ACCAN is proposing an amendment to the telecoms legislation that would be "truly historic for enhancing end-user welfare, both for consumers and business, and in so doing strengthen the development of a networked information economy."
The draft Telecoms legislation, now under scrutiny by a Senate enquiry, provides for the divesture of Telstra's HFC network but does nothing to ensure that change of ownership would make what is now a closed network an open access network, says ACCAN.
The International Telecommunication Union's telecomms standards arm (ITU-T) has agreed upon the key components of the G.hn specification for carrying broadband communications, and other types of traffic over in-home mains wiring
Transaction Network Services is launching a new broadband EFTPOS and ATM network service in Australia called TNSLink that, it says, will significantly reduce day to day operational costs associated with retail EFTPOS and ATM terminals by allowing them to be connected via any broadband Internet access service.
Internet filtering systems which rely on lists of URLs to be blocked are ineffective in blocking content within what Cisco calls 'the Dark Web' and which it says accounts for more than 80 percent of Web content.
Telstra rival Singtel Optus has taken the opportunity to launch a broadside at the incumbent fixed line carrier over its public submission to the Senate inquiry into regulatory reform, which urges the Senate to delay debate on the National Broadband Network until after the Government's implementation study is complete.
The Rudd Government remains committed to having its telecommunications regulations passed this year, despite calls from Telstra to delay debate on the issue until Australia's largest carrier had completed its negotiations with authorities over the proposed changes.
Regulatory Reform NBN SubmissionTelstra has come out swinging in its submission into the Senate inquiry into regulatory reform, urging the Senate to delay debate on National Broadband Network until after the Government's implementation study is complete.
The ACTU has thrown broad support behind Rudd Government communications industry reform but has set down five conditions to make sure no telco worker is worse off under the new regime.
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