Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Australia and India have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to promote further cooperation on information and communications technology.
The signing of the MoU took place during of a high-level ICT industry delegation to India led by the minister for communications, information technology and the arts, senator Helen Coonan
The MoU covers cooperation in a range of activities including e-government, e-commerce, e-learning, IT security, Internet applications, advanced communications technologies and software and multimedia content development.
An Australia-India government and industry joint working group, established to implement the MoU, held its first meeting in Delhi on 21 October. The MoU runs for four years, to October 2009, and extends the relationship established under a former MoU signed in 2000.
India's Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, and Cisco Systems announced plans last week to collaborate to support India's National E-Governance Plan. Cisco will establish the Structure Wireless Aware Network (SWAN) Advanced Technology Enablement Program under which it will provide networking equipment for establishing a SWAN Advanced Technology Centre of Excellence in the state government headquarters in India. These centres will serve as pilots/proof of concept labs that will enable the demonstration of technologies such as LAN/WAN, IP communications, wireless and security. They will also serve as test beds for state governments to test applications and services before they are rolled out on the SWAN.
Another major initiative of the Indian Government's national e-governance plan is to establish 'Common Service Centres' (CSC) in villages in India for providing citizens with on-line access to government services in rural areas. Cisco will support this initiative by providing networking equipment necessary to build networking infrastructure for up to 100 villages.
The National E-Governance plan has been developed by the DIT in consultation with different ministries, state governments, the IT industry, academic institutions.
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