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Is the mobile industry fighting for freedom to confuse?
Wednesday, 10 September 2008
The Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association  (AMTA) is concerned that advertising could become more confusing if proposed legislation is implemented. Isn’t it nice that AMTA has our welfare at heart? Don't be so sure!

 
First impressions of Freshtel cellphone VoIP offering
Wednesday, 10 September 2008
iTWire had a chance to preview Freshtel's latest VoIP service for cellphones' via WiFi, Freshtel Mobilelink.

 
National Broadband Network: the questions that should have been asked
Tuesday, 09 September 2008
A UK study has found that national deployment of fibre to the cabinet (the cheapest technology option) would cost £5.1bn - three or four times more than the telecoms sector spent deploying today's broadband services - and that fibre to every UK home could cost as much as £28.8bn. For Australia, these numbers are less important than the questions that were asked.

 
Putting a dollar value on the mobile porn market
Friday, 05 September 2008
Whenever Internet statistics are bandied about the great unmentionable is porn: it's rare to find any admission that it represents a significant portion of Internet traffic and usage. So it's refreshing to see at least one market research company game enough to be explicit about 'explicit' content.

 
Long term evolution promising 100Mbps on 3G, but
Friday, 29 August 2008
3G cellular vendors are confidently predicting commercial availability in 2009 of the technology's next great leap forward, the long term evolution (LTE) and touting download speeds of up to 100Mbps but this will require access to new spectrum, which might be a problem.

 
An unholy alliance: Opera offers one touch access to Jamster
Thursday, 21 August 2008
Opera Software, developer of the popular Opera Mini web browser for mobile phones, has struck up a partnership with Jamba (aka Jamster) so that the Opera Mini homepage will "allow users to access the Jamba site with one easy click,"  - making it so much easier for them to get locked into costly subscriptions to ringtones, wallpapers etc.

 
New 'green' rules for plug-in power packs
Monday, 11 August 2008
How many of those plug-in low voltage power packs are in your home: to charge your cellphone, power your Internet router, cordless phone, children's toys etc etc. When they are plugged in, they are sucking power whether they are being used or not. And from December they will have to meet new standards aimed at reducing the amount of energy they waste.

 
Netcomm Turbo 7 Gateway added to BigPond wireless broadband range
Thursday, 07 August 2008
The BigPond version of the Next G wireless gateway with included router and WiFi access point, developed for Telstra by Netcom has gone on sale at $299 when combined with a service contract. I've been having a play with one, and it's a breeze to set up.

 
SEEK's name taken in vain
Thursday, 07 August 2008
The subject line read "SEEK Newsletter". It offered part-time employment and it could have passed for an email from the well known jobs web site of that name. But...

 
USO review buried in National Broadband Net process
Thursday, 31 July 2008
Shadow communications minister, Bruce Billson has called for communications minister, Stephen Conroy to "emerge from his NBN fog and confusion to clarify the status of the buried USO review." iTWire has bad news for him. The USO is now well and truly wrapped up in that 'fog and confusion'.

 
ISP level net filtering: don't get too excited
Monday, 28 July 2008
Communications minister Stephen Conroy, hell-bent on foisting ISP level Internet filtering on all Australian consumers, is pretty pleased with the report of a trial of ISP level filtering handed to him recently to him by the ACMA, but it leaves many questions as to the practicalities of ISP level filtering unanswered.

 
Much furore over US Broadband policy
Monday, 28 July 2008
The US Government and US carriers are copping flack over future broadband offerings from all side, yet its FTTH deployment rate is the highest in the world.

 
Telstra set to boost backbone network capacity?
Monday, 28 July 2008
Ericsson announced last week that it had won a contract to supply Deutsche Telekom with technology that will significantly increase the capacity of its optical fibre backbone network. This has big implications for Telstra.

 
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