Westpac Banking Corporation has signed a new five-year agreement with Telstra to provide telecommunication services for its Australian and Pacific operations.
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VeriSign has enhanced its global constellation of 18 geographically-dispersed Internet server clusters by installing a new regional server cluster for .com and .net in Sydney.
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ISP Pacific Internet has announced plans to relocate its Sydney data centre from its Underwood Street office to the facility operated by Global Switch in Ultimo over six months starting in February next year.
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Tasmanian power company, Aurora Energy has extended its trial of broadband communication over powerlines, currently being rolled out in Hobart, to Burnie.
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Hutchison Telecommunications has extended its 3G cellular network to new areas: Campbelltown, in NSW and Werribee in Victoria bringing its 3G coverage of 52.6 percent of the Australian population.
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Equinix is offering the facilities of its Sydney Internet Business Exchange in Melbourne and Brisbane, using capacity on the Nextgen network.
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Townsville-based ISP, Regional Internet Australia (RIA), has chosen Ericsson's EDA ethernet DSLAMs to build out a regional ADLS2+ broadband network in Northern Queensland.
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At a time when many service providers are voicing their dissatisfaction with Telstra Wholesale, People Telecom has signed a multimillion dollar deal to resell Telstra's telephony and ADSL services.
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Sensis has launched what it claims is Australia's first text message search service, enabling mobile phone users to search for a business or residential directory listing by sending an SMS to retrieve, via return SMS, information from the Yellow Pages or White Pages directories.
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Chinese telecoms manufacturer, Huawei Technologies is to deploy a 3G WCDMA network for Econet Wireless New Zealand Limited. It is Huawei's first in Australasia.
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Broadband ISP Internode is offering wireless broadband access in Sydney via the Unwired radio access network.
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Skype has released a new version of its software (Skype 2.0) that includes integrated video-calling.
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New infrastructure, products and services are increasingly being offered by telecommunications carriers in regional markets, according to a new report by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).
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The Research and Education Advanced Network New Zealand (REANNZ) has chosen TelstraClear as the preferred managed service provider. TelstraClear and its subsidiary, Sytec, will run, manage and maintain the network.
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Alcatel is to acquire a 25 percent stake in 2Wire, a pioneer in broadband home gateway technology; and AT&T and Telmex have agreed to acquire minority interests in 2Wire from its existing shareholders.
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Nokia is predicting that the number of mobile subscriptions will surpass three billion in 2008, rather than in 2010 as it predicted in February this year.
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