Cornered! is a blog devoted, most of the time anyway, to telecommunications: local and global issues, technology, people and trends from the perspective of someone who's been reporting, analysing and commenting on the industry since the dark ages (BC - before competition). Sometimes serious, sometimes flippant, sometimes frivolous. Controversial, analytical, informative, amusing, but never boring; a vehicle for examinations of important issues and observations on my encounters and experiences in an industry where polarised views and hyperbole are the norm.
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Monday, 29 June 2009 |
If so you are a member of an elite minority. According to research undertaken by Internet security specialist VeriSign, 86 percent of Australian Web users are at risk from online fraud, because they can't tell a phishy web site from the real thing.
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Wednesday, 24 June 2009 |
Wishful thinking or Telstra trying to be conciliatory to the Federal Government? Whatever, Telstra's over-enthusiastic welcome to a minor piece of legislation was in stark contrast to the song and dance the Trujillo-Burgess double act used to kick up.
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Thursday, 18 June 2009 |
The Iranian Government's attempts to restrict Internet access in the wake of this week's disputed election has become something of a test case for the Internet's ability to impact democratic change, and for a government's ability to prevent it doing so, and in Iran at least the Internet may be winning.
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009 |
SingTel has been reported as contemplating reducing its 100 percent stake in Optus to around 20-30 percent and relisting the company on the ASX. That could be a good thing for the Australian telecoms market.
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Thursday, 04 June 2009 |
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It's rare to see a shadow minister coming out to support the shadowed and claiming to speak for the same, but with calls for the structural separation of Telstra growing louder that's exactly what shadow communications minister Nick Minchin has done, in a press release headed: "Structural separation of Telstra not supported by Labor or the Coalition."
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Wednesday, 27 May 2009 |
In its submission to the backhaul blackspot consultation Telstra is, ostensibly, extending the offer of co-operation to the government as an alternative to government-subsidised competition.
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Friday, 15 May 2009 |
4G is a term often used and more often misused to try and 'sex-up' current or almost current wireless technologies like WiMAX or the long term evolution (LTE) of 3G. One market research firm has had enough - but they're blaming the wrong people for perpetrating the myth of 4G.
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Friday, 08 May 2009 |
Telstra's incoming CEO and chair, David Thodey and Catherine Livingstone, weren't keen to talk about Telstra's future relationship with the government and their stance on matters regulatory at their first press conference, trying instead to keep attention focussed on what the new regime will do for Telstra's customers.
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Sunday, 03 May 2009 |
Telstra has been found guilty of misusing information available within its network, as a provider of wholesale services to Optus, by passing this information to its retail arm for marketing and competitive analysis purposes. The outcome will significantly strengthen the case for structurally separating Telstra Wholesale and Retail so as to remove the incentive and the opportunity for similar conduct in the future.
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Wednesday, 15 April 2009 |
The Federal Opposition has continued its assault on the Government's $43b NBN plan accusing it of ignoring, or selectively quoting from, studies that suggest customers will be unwilling to pay a premium for the promised high bandwidth services, but it risks exposing its own abysmal track record on broadband planning.
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Wednesday, 15 April 2009 |
If you accept the views of couple of telecoms commentators there are remarkable similarities between The FTTN and FTTP versions of the ALP's NBN: the end game for both being to have Telstra accept certain conditions and build the thing. Plan A came badly unstuck, what about Plan B?
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Tuesday, 07 April 2009 |
Three weeks ago communications minister Stephen Conroy was adamant that the Government would fulfil its election promise of an FTTN network delivering at least 12Mbps to 98 percent of the population, that the RFP process would run its course and that Telstra had Buckley's chance of getting back in. Today's announcement breaks all three of those promises.
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Tuesday, 07 April 2009 |
The biggest question about the Government's decision to abandon the NBN RFP and go back to the drawing board is: why did it take so long?
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