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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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by Stuart Corner
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Friday, 16 May 2008 |
Not exactly, but 100 years ago this week American inventor Nathan Stubblefield filed what is believed to be the first patent for a wireless telephone. A decade earlier an English scientist had clearly envisaged the possibility of global wireless communications using portable devices.
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by Stuart Corner
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Friday, 16 May 2008 |
The OECD says governments and business must "work together more effectively and urgently to meet the growing demand for Internet addresses and secure the future of the Internet economy," but the world knew a decade ago that this parlous state of affairs was inevitable: initiatives to date have clearly been inadequate.
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by Stuart Corner
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Thursday, 15 May 2008 |
Microsoft is expecting that 40 percent of smartphones sold in 2012 will be based on its Windows Mobile operating system. No doubt it won't be resting on its laurels if it gets there, but open source-based platforms, particularly LiMo, are making rapid headway.
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by Stuart Corner
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Tuesday, 13 May 2008 |
Telstra has provided to the government network information crucial to any other potential bidders for the $4.7b of government funding for a national broadband network, but there are few not-insignificant hurdles to be surmounted before they can get their hands on it.
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by Stuart Corner
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Sunday, 11 May 2008 |
Less than 20 years ago the world's dominant cellphone manufacturer was making, amongst a host of other things, car tyres. Now it's shifting focus again, into services, and gearing up to take on Microsoft and Google.
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by Stuart Corner
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
The most spectacular rumour doing the rounds of telecoms and IT news sites right now must be that 15 of the world's biggest carriers - AT&T, BT, Deutsche Telecom, NTT etc - are planning to launch their own free VoIP service to compete with, and hopefully destroy, Skype. Does this have any legs?
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by Stuart Corner
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Tuesday, 06 May 2008 |
Australia's communications minister, senator Stephen Conroy, has said that he would consider a structural separation of Telstra along the lines of separation regimes introduced in Singapore, the UK and New Zealand in order to ensure a competitive market in the provision of future broadband services.
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by Stuart Corner
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Tuesday, 06 May 2008 |
18 month old Canadian Elijah Luck may have the unfortunate distinction of being the first person to die because a VoIP phone service used to make an emergency call failed to deliver the caller's correct address. Without a foolproof system, which is years away, the same thing is likely to happen again.
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by Stuart Corner
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008 |
The countries are different and so are the political parties but the pre-election announcement by New Zealand's National Party that it would invest $NZ1.5 billion over the next six years to rollout fibre to the majority of New Zealand homes bears many similarities to the Australian Labor Party's pre-election pledge of March 2007: and just look at the mess the ALP has now got itself into!
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