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by Stuart Corner
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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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by Stuart Corner
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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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by Stuart Corner
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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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by Stuart Corner
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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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by Stuart Corner
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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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by Stuart Corner
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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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by Stuart Corner
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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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by Stuart Corner
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Friday, 30 May 2008 |
Go into any data centre and you will see thousands of tiny lights, in the rows and rows of electronic gear. A UK company reckons these, and those on computing equipment in UK homes contribute 50,000 tonnes to CO2 emissions and waste £10m a year in energy costs.
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by Stuart Corner
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Tuesday, 27 May 2008 |
Optus has released a report, commissioned from the Competition Economists Group (CEG-Asia Pacific) to push its claim that Telstra should be structurally separated, but it is a document of little substance.
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by Stuart Corner
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Monday, 26 May 2008 |
Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo's recent claim that the cost of rolling out an FTTN network to 98 percent of Australian homes would be closer to $15b than the $8 billion in the government's estimate has been dismissed as "a vain attempt to scare off the opposition," but some industry players think his estimate is, if anything, too low.
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by Stuart Corner
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Monday, 26 May 2008 |
Google subsidiary YouTube has launched a CitizenNews section with the stated aim of becoming "the go to destination for news on the web." With many people now going first to Google for news does this mean they could soon not be going to traditional news sites at all!
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by Stuart Corner
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Thursday, 22 May 2008 |
Twenty years ago this Sunday the Hawke Labor Government set in train legislative changes that, in less than a decade, ended a century long history of provision of telecommunications services by government owned monopolies.
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