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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The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is to revamp its internal structure to give a sharper focus on issues thrown up by the National Broadband Network and the transition to digital TV and radio; and "to give appropriate new weighting to the role of...individuals as citizens, as consumers and as audiences for content."
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Communications provider TransACT will upgrade its system to deliver IPTV to customers. The company's fibre network covers Canberra and Queanbeyan.
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Another day, another insult. That's life in the capital city for Australia's Federal Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Stephen Conroy.
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