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by Stuart Corner
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Monday, 18 June 2007 |
The government has announced that it will give the Optus Elders consortium (Opel Networks) not only the full $600 million of the Broadband Connect Infrastructure Funding but a further $358 million on the basis that Opel will make its own commercial contribution of over $900 million to roll out, amongst other things, an extensive WiMAX network to deliver broadband in areas beyond its planned ADSSL2+ rollout.
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by Stuart Corner
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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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by Stuart Corner
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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 |
BusinessWeek has just published an interview with AT&T's new CEO, Randall Stephenson. His closing comment was "Our objective is to own all aspects of [communications] in the home. The iPhone is critical to this." That should tell you that Apple, and AT&T, have some surprises up their sleeves.
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by Stuart Corner
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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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by Stuart Corner
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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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by Stuart Corner
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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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by Stuart Corner
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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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by Stuart Corner
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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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by Stuart Corner
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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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by Stuart Corner
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Monday, 14 May 2007 |
NEC Australia this week issued a press release boasting that it had "regained the lead in Australian enterprise telephony market in Q4 2006." However this achievement in isolation is nothing to brag about.
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by Stuart Corner
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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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by Stuart Corner
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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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by Stuart Corner
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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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