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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Friday, 15 June 2007 |
You would think that, in today's world where advertising and promotional messages are pervasive, nobody would want more. But they do. According to Alcatel-Lucent young adults want marketing messages on their mobiles. And guess, what? Alcatel-Lucent has the technology to deliver.
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Monday, 11 June 2007 |
Telstra motor mouth, Phil Burgess, really has gone too far in his xenophobic rantings against Singapore, whose national carrier just happens to own Telstra's main rival.
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Tuesday, 05 June 2007 |
Federal Cabinet met today to discuss the, separate, issues of what to do to resolve the current FTTN deadlock, and the Government's $600 million funding for better rural broadband. There have been no decisions announced but the signs are not promising.
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Wednesday, 30 May 2007 |
One way or another billions of dollars are likely to be committed, within the next few months to increasing the speed of broadband services to most of Australia's population, but despite the huge focus on broadband. Accurate information and informed debate on real needs, expected benefits and commercial drivers is woeful.
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Monday, 28 May 2007 |
For years cellphone manufacturers have been boasting with each new, and increasingly frequent, launch of a new model about all the features and improvements, but now there seems to be a trend for simple alternatives.
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Tuesday, 22 May 2007 |
Communications minister, Helen Coonan has criticised reliance on the OECD broadband stats, but has been perfectly happy to rely, without question, on these same OECD figures when they suited her purpose.
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Monday, 21 May 2007 |
On 21 May my fixed phone line, with AAPT, had been out of action for almost three weeks, and the experience revealed much about customer service and the problems faced by companies that resell Telstra services.
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Friday, 11 May 2007 |
T4 (Tell The Truth Telstra) the group of tier 2 carriers set up to counter what its members see as a concerted misinformation campaign by Telstra on broadband and FTTN needs to take a serious look at its PR tactics.
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Friday, 11 May 2007 |
Nokia has added a feature to some of its cellphones that will suggest people unplug the charger once the phone is charged, to save electricity. That is praiseworthy but impractical, and the claimed savings questionable.
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Monday, 07 May 2007 |
Every day there seems to be news of another large organisation that has embraced the potential of IP to unify communications: integrating telephony, email and voice mail for efficiency and productivity gains. But when it comes to using these technologies to interact with customers, it seems to be an entirely different story.
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Tuesday, 01 May 2007 |
Soul has agreed to sell its media assets to PBL Media and says it will focus entirely on its telecommunications business. It has been touting its unique advantages in this market for over two years. Now it is time to deliver.
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Tuesday, 01 May 2007 |
Given the general agreement on the importance of broadband infrastructure, uptake and usage to the economic wellbeing of nations in the 21st century the quality of statistical information gathered in Australia, and elsewhere is woeful.
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Friday, 27 April 2007 |
The hypocrisy of our communications minister beggars belief: In her latest tirade against the ALP's FTTN plans she has berated the opposition for quoting a $30 billion estimate of the annual economic benefit of broadband, when she has used exactly the same estimate for the same purpose.
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