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, 10 November 2008 |
Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo was telling investors last week that high speed broadband is central to his strategy, while claiming there is every possibility that Telstra won't be part of the Government's planned National Broadband Network. Interesting!
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Thursday, 06 November 2008 |
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Telstra this week announced alliances with both Microsoft and Cisco to deliver, amongst other things, unified communications services to enterprise customers.
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Wednesday, 05 November 2008 |
Shadow communications minister, Nick Minchin, has been damning in his criticism of the Rudd Government's broadband policy, but has failed to offer any alternative.
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Friday, 31 October 2008 |
Suggesting that the model of the country-specific telco may be outdated, market research firm Ovum is urging telcos to exploit the global financial crisis by seeking opportunities outside their own borders. But this has been tried before - with limited success.
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Tuesday, 28 October 2008 |
The rise of YouTube enabling anyone with a broadband connected and a video camera to create and share videos with the world has been astonishing. So imagine a world where millions of people with mobile phones can do exactly the same thing - live.
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Monday, 27 October 2008 |
If anybody tells you that WiMAX or HSPA is a 4G wireless technology, they're wrong: they are both 3G, but the roadmap from HSPA to 4G is much clearer than that from WiMAX, which could consign WiMAX to being a niche technology, according to IMS Research.
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Wednesday, 22 October 2008 |
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It seems that, for many Americans getting turned off by their mobile phone is preferable to turning off their mobile phone: according to a survey by Nokia, 24 percent of Americans "have allowed a call or email to interrupt them while in the throes of passion" because "most working Americans - 59 percent - never turn off their mobile device."
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Tuesday, 21 October 2008 |
Delivering its latest dose of vitriol in the increasingly vicious slanging match over the national broadband network, Telstra has branded the Optus 3G network a "laughing stock". But it is Australia that is fast becoming the laughing stock of global telecommunications with the government being held to ransom by opposing forces and erstwhile participant AAPT/Telecom NZ stirring up trouble from the sidelines.
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Tuesday, 21 October 2008 |
The release of a survey of Australian CEOs that purports to measure industry demand for broadband has been hailed by the Government has vindication of its plans for a National Broadband Network, but a third of respondents had no idea of the speed of their current broadband service and none were asked to specify exactly what speed of service they were using.
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Friday, 17 October 2008 |
AAPT has dealt a serious blow to Terria's credibility and to its chances of winning the Australian Government's National Broadband Network contract, but maybe there is an upside.
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Wednesday, 15 October 2008 |
Telstra has slammed the Regional Telecommunications Independent Review committee's 385 page report and its 50 recommendations based on more than 20 public hearings, several stakeholder briefings and over 220 submissions, saying that the future of rural telecommunications is safe in Telstra's hands, unfettered by regulation and government intervention.
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Tuesday, 14 October 2008 |
Telstra has mounted what might be its strongest attack to date on any attempt by the government to deny it the right to build the national broadband network on its terms, claiming it will refuse any other builder access to the copper pairs connecting customers and that it will compete vigorously with a non-Telstra NBN using alternative infrastructure.
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Friday, 10 October 2008 |
Optus' wireless broadband service has been in strife lately: first it canned Fusion its fixed wireless voice and data offering, then it jacked up the cost of its wireless broadband service. UK consultancy Analysys Mason has some suggestions.
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