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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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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Saturday, 04 April 2009 |
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A spoof article published in Computerworld Australia on 1 April claiming that Telstra had agreed to a retail/wholesale split if it were to win the NBN went badly awry and precipitated a flurry of trading in Telstra stock. Recriminations and regrets are flowing thick and fast and ASIC is rumoured to be investigating, But who is really to blame?
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Thursday, 26 March 2009 |
Communications minister Stephen Conroy, by his own admission can talk under wet cement, and it was a talent he demonstrated in spades when questioned about Internet filtering after opening Cisco's new customer briefing centre in Sydney yesterday.
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Tuesday, 20 January 2009 |
The country top level domain name (ccTLD) system was designed initially to indicate country of origin or at least operation of the domain name owner but ever since the tiny Pacific Island nation of Tuvalu realised there was money to be made from the fact that its ccTLD (.tv) is the same as that of the couch potato's best friend, other have seen the possibility of monetising ccTLDs.
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Friday, 16 January 2009 |
President elect Barak Obama has produced a draft of a $US825-billion economic stimulus bill that is said to list $US6 billion for expanding broadband "so businesses in rural and other underserved areas can link up to the global economy." It suggests that: "For every dollar invested in broadband the economy sees a ten-fold return on that investment."
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Thursday, 15 January 2009 |
Scandinavian telco, TeliaSonera has issued a press release claiming it has signed "the world's first 4G commercial contracts" and will be "First in the world with next generation's mobile broadband." Supplier Ericsson has jumped on the same bandwagon, but they are both wrong: this is 3G not 4G technology.
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Monday, 12 January 2009 |
Telstra has been railing against the 'unnecessary' burden of being required to produce and follow a regional and rural presence plan, but there were good reasons for its imposition and no evidence yet that those reasons are not still valid.
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Friday, 19 December 2008 |
Communications minister Stephen Conroy is to be commended for his latest initiative to map out Australia's future in the 'digital economy', but after two decades of seeing similar attempts come and disappear without trace, yours truly is not overly optimistic.
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Tuesday, 16 December 2008 |
Amid all the controversy surrounding Australia's National Broadband Network, let's not forget that the promise of at least 12Mbps to 98 percent of the population for around $9b was basically an ALP 'back of the envelope' calculation. Thanks to InternetNZ, a much thoroughly researched approach has been taken across The Ditch.
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