iiNet has launched it first broadband over FTTH services, to residents of the Alamanda Estate at Point Cook in Victoria, where Internode is already offering services.
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Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has tabled documents with the Senate asking that it lifts an order that currently prevents consideration of any bill related to its National Broadband Network proposal.
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The Business Council of Australia has raised a number of significant concerns with the Governments' $43b National Broadband Network and says the implementation study is the only way for these to be addressed. It has called for the output of the study to be made public.
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Forget all those claims from WiMAX and cellular operators bragging about their 4G wireless technologies. No 4G technologies exist today. The International Telecommunication Union has just started evaluating candidate technologies for the global 4G mobile wireless broadband standard. It and expects to announce, in October 2010 those chosen to qualify as "true 4G technologies" - and that’s official!
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According to data from Cisco, the average broadband connection, across the globe, now generates 11.4Gbytes of Internet traffic per month.
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The Australian Communications and Media Authority has hit two companies and a number of individuals with massive fines for luring unsuspecting customers of dating sites into expensive SMS sex chats with bogus persons. The penalty, handed down in the Federal Court of Brisbane, sounds a warning to spammers looking to cash in on the growing popularity of mobile phone chat services.
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Skype has selected session border controllers from Acme Packet to improve interworking of the Skype for SIP beta offering with customers' IP PBX systems.
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Most of Australia's tier 2 carriers have bandied together to issue a joint statement calling on all members of Parliament and senators to support the passage of the telecoms reform legislation and not to delay considering it.
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Chinese vendor, ZTE, has released a new 200tbps core router. According to Ovum it will put substantial pressure on market leaders Cisco and Juniper, who will need to accelerate product development cycles.
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Telstra International Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) has formed a partnership with South African company, Internet Solutions, that will expand the reach of both parties' MPLS network coverage. In particular it will enable Telstra to provide better connectivity into Africa for its multinational corporate customers.
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The telecomms consumers lobby group - ACCAN, has ramped up its assault on the telecoms industry with demands that telcos compensate consumers who have to resort to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman to resolve issues with telcos.
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It is the sort of survey that drives people crazy and it will probably make Nick Minchin break out in a rash, but Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has been named as one of the global telecom sector's Top 100 most influential people.
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The Tasmanian Government is planning a business roadshow across the US selling the relationship between its renewable energy capability and fibre connectivity to ICT multinationals looking for data centre locations for the region.
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The ITU has given its stamp of approval to an energy-efficient one-size-fits-all new mobile phone charger.
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Optus has launched a number of new contract wireless broadband plans that offer almost twice the data quota of current plans, but for the first year only.
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Victorian power company, SP AusNet, has chosen Motorola Home & Networks Mobility business' mobile broadband technology to power what, according to Motorola, will be the world's first WiMAX-based smart metering network, using Unwired's spectrum.
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