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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US based VoIP service provider, Viper Networks has announced its entry into the Australian market in conjunction with its Indian partner, Cirilium India Pvt Ltd.
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Verizon and Cisco have released the results of a study jointly commissioned from Frost and Sullivan that quantifies the productivity gains achieved from deploying collaboration and unified communications tools.
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Important benefits of proposed telecommunication reforms – including the functional or structural separation of Telstra – would be seen inside 12 months, the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy has told a Senate inquiry.
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Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has poured cold water on calls to delay the Senate debate on telecommunications reform, saying Government is committed to its passage by the end of the year.
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Alcatel-Lucent has produced a video, posted to YouTube and "targeted at mums and dads" in which it "seeks to overcome the widespread misunderstanding that the NBN is just about 'faster Internet' and in which it tells views that the NBN is "every Australian's right."
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Cisco has signalled its intent to be a major player in the market for network infrastructure underpinning the burgeoning smartphone and mobile data ecosystem with a $US2.9 billion cash offer for Starent Networks, a leading supplier of IP-based infrastructure products for mobile and converged carriers.
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Smart grids - electricity networks with monitoring an control technologies distributed throughout are expected to become an enormous market and now Microsoft has thrown its hat into the ring with the announcement of a software architecture for 'Integrated Utility of the Future', following a similar announcement by Cisco last month.
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