The Coalition has confirmed it will seek a deferrment of Stephen Conroy's telecommunications reform legislation until next year, after its joint party room and the shadow Cabinet endorsed the plan.
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Google is joining forces with airline Virgin America to provide travellers with free in-flight Wi-Fi service during the upcoming holiday season.
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NBN Company executive chairman Mike Quigley has both the authority and capacity to acquire assets related to a national broadband network now, even before the Government's implementation study is completed in February.
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Trans-Tasman VOIP services provider, gotalk, has disputed what it says is competitor Engin’s claim to “have the best offer on the market”, and today launched its own “improved range” of new VOIP plans in an attempt to get customers to change service providers.
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The Senate enquiry into the telecoms reform legislation is getting lots of air-time but what really matters is the horse trading going on between Telstra and the Government over Telstra's contribution to and role in the NBN.
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An Australian-developed technology that can deliver a tenfold increase in the capacity of an optical fibre link is being commercialised.
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A fundamental requirement for reducing broadband prices and increasing speeds has been the existence of an open access regime, a Harvard University study conducted on behalf of the US regulator has found.
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The Tasmanian Government wants to maximise the chances of local companies getting work during the construction phase of the National Broadband Network roll-out, launching a web portal that highlights NBN sub-contractor opportunities.
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As fibre roll-outs gain momentum worldwide, the International Telecommunication Union has ratified its so-called G.hn standard for new 'smart home' networks and applications.
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Broadband users looking forward to the removal of download caps from internet pricing are likely to be disappointed: Even the NBN Company doubts the fatter pipes will mean the end of the download cap regime.
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The Australian Communications and Media Authority wants feedback on its proposed new rules for blocking unwanted high-cost services delivered to mobile phones by the end of this week.
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Communications Alliance has released a discussion paper setting out a draft of its vision of the NBN network architecture: a vision that it says would be required to deliver a broad range of network, application and content services to end users.
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Technology transformation issues would add massively to the cost of a functional separation of Telstra, and increase the risk of disruption to billing and service delivery to millions of customers, the company has told a Senate inquiry.
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Opera Software has launched a new version of its web browser that, it claims, easily turns the host computer into a web server enabling the user to make files of their choice accessible over the Internet.
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Market research firm Telecom Trends International is forecasting that Linux based smartphones will account for 60 percent of the smartphone market in seven years with Android becoming the dominant mobile OS at 25 percent market share.
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Tata Communications is now providing international capacity to and from Australia via Pipe Networks' newly-opened PPC-1 cable system which interconnects with Tata's global submarine cable network in Guam.
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