Cornered!
IMS - Telstra's secret weapon!
by Stuart Corner   
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
IMS - the three letter acronym for the IP Multimedia Subsystem is a term seldom heard and little understood outside technical telecommunications circles, but it's going to have a very big factor in Telstra's competitiveness in an NBN and post-separation world.

 
The wisdom of Phil Burgess, brought to you by the WSJ
by Stuart Corner   
Thursday, 05 November 2009
Telstra's erstwhile mouthpiece, Phil Burgess, has been at it again, peddling his views on the Australian Government, the ACCC and Australian telecommunications in general to anyone who will give him a hearing and, preferably, disseminate his views to as wide an audience as possible.

 
NZ research questions the value of high speed broadband
by Stuart Corner   
Monday, 02 November 2009
A New Zealand study has found that the productivity benefits businesses gain by moving to higher speed broadband are minimal compared to the gains by from implementing lower speed broadband services - but it admits to many significant uncertainties in its conclusions.

 
Bartlett making the most of Tassie's NBN
by Stuart Corner   
Friday, 23 October 2009
Tasmanian Greens leader, Nick McKim, is, according to ABC News "predicting a drip-feed of announcements over the Tasmanian roll-out of the National Broadband Network, to maximise the State Government's re-election chances," but there's plenty to suggest this has been going on for some time.

 
TV broadcasters should favour, not fear the NBN
by Stuart Corner   
Sunday, 18 October 2009
Free to air broadcasters are concerned that delivery of video over the Internet via the NBN threatens their industry, but, according to Alcatel-Lucent, the NBN could have video capabilities beyond Internet TV and the broadcasters need to understand and embrace this potential.

 
Minchin's attack on Samuel unwarranted
by Stuart Corner   
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
Shadow communications minister senator Nick Minchin has launched an extraordinary attack on ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel accusing him of "spruiking the Rudd Government's NBN proposal and its planned telecommunications regulatory reforms" in a way that "threatens to undermine the ACCC's role as an objective regulator."

 
Minchin claims Conroy and Tanner at odds over Telstra break-up
by Stuart Corner   
Monday, 21 September 2009
Shadow communications minister Nick Minchin claims that communications minister Stephen Conroy and finance minister Lindsay Tanner are at odds over the government's determination to wrest the HFC network and Foxtel stake from Telstra's grip, but the rules are set out in black and white in the bills now before parliament. Or are they...

 
Structural Separation: Conroy's second big surprise
by Stuart Corner   
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
The legislation announced today by communications minister Stephen Conroy goes further than most of the industry had expected "I keep checking that the date isn't 1st April" one CE commented). It's the second big surprise the minister has pulled out of the hat this year.

 
Nowwearetalking, now we are glad that you are gone
by Stuart Corner   
Monday, 07 September 2009
Telstra has, without warning, closed down its controversial nowwearetalking website and will replace it with what it promises will be "a more engaging, interactive site under the main telstra.com umbrella." Few will mourn NWAT's passing.

 
Review: The pen that's mightier than the (written & spoken) word
by Stuart Corner   
Tuesday, 18 August 2009
This is one of the coolest and most useful gadgets I've come across in a long time: a pen with a built-in digital recorder and lots of other smarts that enables you to make notes during meetings, lectures etc and then access every word that was actually being spoken when you made your note.

 
iiNet CEO warns of telco-centric NBN
by Stuart Corner   
Tuesday, 18 August 2009
iiNet managing director, Michael Malone says there is a danger of the NBN being developed under a 'carrier-centric' model that would require every service provider to go through a carrier or primary service provider that 'owned' the connection to the home, rather than being able to establish a direct relationship with the customer.

 
Ask not what Telstra can do for the NBN but what the NBN can do for Telstra
by Stuart Corner   
Wednesday, 12 August 2009
There has been much discussion about how Telstra might 'help' the NBN by contributing facilities such as ducts etc, but there has been little discussion about how the NBN might 'help' Telstra by giving it much higher bandwidth access to many more customers than it is has available today through any of its access networks. Telstra has given some inkling of this by talking up its Next IP network.

 
Femtocells: the next big thing in mobile communications
by Stuart Corner   
Wednesday, 05 August 2009
In a surprisingly short time femtocells have progressed from concept to commercial reality. They are now on the verge of bringing a whole gamut of new applications to consumers by integrating cellphones into the digital home.

 
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