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, 22 June 2008 |
Australian communications minister, Stephen Conroy, seems to believe that regulation can be embedded in technology. Recent developments suggest he is being overly optimistic, but that may be no bad thing.
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Monday, 16 June 2008 |
BigPond head honcho Justin Milne has delivered the most convincing picture I have yet seen of Telstra's media comms abilities and ambitions and it reinforces what I have been saying for years: Telstra is uniquely positioned because it is such a powerful player in so many overlapping, and converging, technologies, services and markets.
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Monday, 16 June 2008 |
Broadband services are sold on three parameters: speed, download quotas and price, but there are many other factors determining the overall quality of the service and the user's experience. And in New Zealand the performance of different providers has for the first time been laid bare for all to see.
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Monday, 16 June 2008 |
The latest suggestion from a US telco, this time AT&T, that usage based charging for broadband services is "inevitable" has sparked the usual flurry of indignation and denigration of service providers, but Blind Freddy should be able to see that inevitable it is.
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Saturday, 14 June 2008 |
After I posted the story “Telstra heavies Wikipedia to protect CEO’s image” I received an email from Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, saying: “Your story about Simon (sic) Trujillo / Telstra is erroneous to the point of irresponsibility.”
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Friday, 13 June 2008 |
Reports have emerged revealing that, back in March this year, Telstra lawyers wrote to Wikipedia alleging that some parts of the entry on Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo were defamatory and demanding their immediate removal: Which may explain why his entry today is bereft of any reference to the many critical articles about him published in the early days of his Telstra leadership. (There is now a follow-up article on this issue)
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Thursday, 12 June 2008 |
Calls for 'structural separation' are reaching a pitch matched only by Telstra's condemnation of the concept, but most of the competing rhetoric glosses over exactly what form of structural separation might be on the agenda, and, absent any real world examples, invokes operational separation to bolster its arguments.
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 |
Having given scant regard to examining all the options, the Rudd Government is driving the National Broadband Network project at breakneck speed to deliver on its pre-election promise of multimegabit services to 98 percent of the population within five years. Analysis from the UK, where these issues have been studied in much greater detail, suggests this might not be a wise move.
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 |
The green light has been given for the building of what is claimed will be the greenest data centre in Europe, using only
60 percent of the power of conventional data centres, but this will be achieved only through close synergy between
power generation, data centre and the local community.
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 |
Try this at home: collect cellphones from friends of family members, arrange them in a small circle, have them all making
calls, put a few kernels of popping corn in the middle and watch what happens.
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Friday, 06 June 2008 |
If the ferocity of Telstra's attack on the latest contribution from the Competitive Carriers' Coalition to the current debate around the national broadband network is any indication, the CCC has hit the nail on the head. And what's more, Telstra's attempt to destroy its credibility has played right into the CCC's hands: ensuring that its views gain wide exposure.
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Thursday, 05 June 2008 |
iTWire questioned broadband satellite operator IPStar's choice of its exclusive Australian distributor when the deal was announced last November. So we are not the least bit surprised that IPStar now seems to be trying to get out of the deal.
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Tuesday, 03 June 2008 |
In the US Time Warner has introduced a broadband plan with a 'paltry' 5Gbyte data limit, outraging US commentators. But as consumers' appetite for video places ever more demand on networks they had better get used to it.
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