India's Financial Express newspaper claims that Telstra is planning to re-enter the Indian mobile communications market by bidding for spectrum in the upcoming auction of 3G and broadband wireless access spectrum.
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Australia has legislation giving telcos access to buildings and land etc for network rollout, but the New Zealand doesn't think legislation the best way to ensure a speedy rollout of its planned FTTH network and is proposing instead a range of "complementary measures."
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The battle between the cellular and WIMAX camps for future 4G wireless networking standards ramped up this week with the IEEE formally submitting its 802.16m standard (the next iteration of today's 802.16e mobile WiMAX standard) to the ITU as a candidate radio interface technology for IMT-Advanced standardisation.
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Microsoft has unveiled Windows Mobile 6.5, a new app store, backup and photo sharing application along with new smartphones from various vendors supporting the new OS.
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Telstra has launched a Windows Mobile 6.5 based smartphone from HTC within hours of Microsoft announcing release of the new version of its smartphone operating system.
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Verizon Wireless - the largest mobile network operator in the US with 290 million customers - has given the Android smartphone platform a major boost by teaming up with Google to offer Android-based smartphones to customers on its CDMA EV-DO network.
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Telstra claims that more than 100 locations around Australia now have mobile coverage for the first time as a result of the continuing expansion of the carrier's Next G 3G network.
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Queensland resort and gated community Sanctuary Cove isn’t waiting for the National Broadband Network to roll past its upmarket residences, and will instead roll-out its own fibre to the home infrastructure in preparation for higher bandwidth services.
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Gary McLaren, who has headed Communications Alliance's initiative to develop network specifications for the National Broadband Network, has been appointed CTO of NBN Co. Steve Christian, a former managing director of networks at Optus, has been named head of network operations. And Comms Alliance has named Paul Brooks to replace McLaren.
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US based chipmaker, Sibeam, has unveiled the second generation of its 60GHz wireless networking chipsets, claimed to the only product on the market to support wireless delivery of lossless 1080p HD video.
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The era of consumer telepresence has come a step closer with the launch of a new system by LifeSize targeted at small business, personal office and teleworkers with a starting price of less than $US2500 and billed as "a ground-breaking HD videoconferencing system that provides the telepresence experience to anyone, anywhere."
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The National Broadband Network would drive job opportunities in regional Australia and help remote indigenous communities participate in the mainstream economy, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has told a conference in Geneva.
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Internode says it’s taking advantage of a reduction in data transfer costs afforded by the new fibre-optic link between Australia and the Pacific Island of Guam to boost data quotas and lower plan costs to its customers.
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Be careful whom you call, your telco might use the information to sell you something! IBM has announced two analytics-focused research projects that, it says, will help telecom service providers and e-retailers improve customer service and new-customer acquisitions by examining the way customers communicate, make purchasing decision, and download applications.
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Salesforce.com and Cisco have teamed up to offer a 'contact centre in the cloud' for SMBs by combining Salesforce.com's hosted CRM service with Cisco's unified communications offerings.
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US-based JumperTel has launched a VoIP service that enables 'on-net' calling to anywhere and from anywhere in the world for just $US12 per year: not as cheap as Skype but, JumperTel claims, much simpler to use and superior in other ways.
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