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Telstra juggles shareholder and future strategy priorities
Telstra has ruled out - in the short term - boosting returns to shareholders by either an on market share buyback of an increase in dividend and is being cagey about how it might use an expected cash pile of $3b over the next three years. However significant investments in either its own network and services or in other businesses will be needed to ensure its future prosperity as copper network revenues decline.
A new cellphone radiation scare: damage to the foetal brain
The latest research into the possible biological effects of cellphone radiation has demonstrated changes in brains of mice in the womb. Naturally the industry has dismissed it out of hand, but caution is warranted.
Talk of mobile number scarcity greatly exaggerated
The ACMA yesterday released its proposals for major changes to all aspects of telephone numbering in both the short (12 month) and medium (five year) terms. It prompted a number of headlines warning of imminent exhaustion of mobile phone numbers, but that was not something of concern to the ACMA.
BigPond Cable upgrade - don't mention the speed
Telstra has just announced plans to upgrade its HFC network in Adelaide, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sydney and Perth to support download speeds of up to 100Mbps, but oddly it does not seem to be too keen to tell customers about it.
Opposition scraping the barrel for NBN opposition avenues
Is the Coalition getting desperate to find ways to attack the NBN? The latest assaults from its chief protagonists Malcolm Turnbull and Paul Fletcher certainly suggest this to be the case.
Optus & Motorola hint at first HSPA+ 42Mbps smartphone
A forthcoming announcement by Optus and Motorola of a new smartphone hints at some intriguing possibilities.
iCon: AT&T and Apple tout iPhone 4S as a 4G device
4G is a much misused terminology in the world of cellular communications, but US telco AT&T and Apple are bolding taking the definition of 4G where it has never been taken before.
No political agenda in choice of NBN first release sites
Hoping to confirm the oft-repeated claim that NBN Co's choice of first release sites was politically motivated the Sydney Morning Herald sought, and obtained, NBN Co internal planning documents under Freedom of Information legislation.
Could Optus offer free femtocells (aka 3G Home Zones)?
A decision by French mobile operator SFR to offer femtocells free to all its customers suggests that that they offer benefits for operators as much, or more so, than they offer for users.
Motorola acquisition boosts Android's home automation prospects
At its I/O developer conference in San Francisco in May Google gave a sneak preview of its Android@Home project, designed to extend the Android platform into household objects. Its acquisition of Motorola Mobility adds a whole new dimension to this, thanks to Motorola's 4Home business.
The NBN Co Optus 'gag' in perspective
The latest anti-NBN report from the Murdoch press - not known as the number one fan of the project - has revealed that "an $800 million deal with Optus [for the closure of its HFC network] includes an 'anti-disparagement' provision," but it's no big deal and no different to conditions applying to Telstra.
Internode in damage control mode over 'restructuring'
When a high profile company gets rid of four senior high-profile executives it needs to take the initiative instead of waiting for the bad news to leak out.
We will need 100Mbps, we just have to convince the Coalition
The Coalition has once again repeated its now jaded argument against the NBN: there is no hard evidence to support the idea that we need the 100Mbps that the FTTH network will deliver. Maybe not, but there are portents aplenty. Coalition pundits just need to be a bit more visionary.
NBN Co talks up competition from mobile services
NBN Co's submission to the ACCC on Telstra's structural separation undertakings goes to great lengths to counter the argument that restrictions stopping Telstra marketing mobile services as a direct substitute for the fixed network NBN will be detrimental to mobile competition, but in so doing it once again raises the spectre of the NBN being undermined by mobile broadband services.
Turnbull's NBN pricing scare gathers momentum
Facts are fast giving way not just to speculation and opinion but to outright falsehoods as the latest Coalition NBN scare campaign gathers momentum.
Malcolm T will love this: Vodafone Germany to replace DSL with LTE
Vodafone Germany is reported to be planning to abandon the use of copper for delivering broadband services and migrate four million broadband customers to its LTE network.
Turnbull's NBN Co price warnings only half the story
Shadow Communications minister Malcolm Turnbull has issued a lengthy press release claiming that NBN Co is seeking the freedom to hike its wholesale prices at rates way above inflation, but this is a gross over-simplification of a very complex issue.
Could AARNet become the first Next G reseller?
I might be drawing a long bow, but rumours that Telstra is going to open up Next G to resellers have been circulating for months, and AARNet is definitely going to be reselling somebody's mobile broadband service.
To believe we need 100Mbps you have to have some vision
It's a question that has been asked a thousand times since the Labor Government unveiled its $43b NBN plan promising 100Mbs to the 93 percent of Australian homes and businesses that would be connected to fibre: "What will we use all that bandwidth for?"
Smartphone security and backup: a great VAS opportunity
There is enormous potential for mobile operators to offer consumers security and management services for their smartphones, and a service launched by KDDI America suggests an intriguing possibility.
Review: Optus femtocell, aka 3G Home Zone
Optus last month became the first mobile operator in Australia to offer femtocells as a full commercial product. Optus promoting them as solution for Optus mobile customers with poor coverage in their homes.
More Articles...
- Where has all the WiFi gone?
- Claims of NBN's death by DIDO greatly exaggerated
- Turnbull reveals Coalition broadband policy via Q&A
- 4G 'confusion' survey is confused itself
- Identity, theft and six degrees of separation
- Conroy's Digital Strategy will face many hurdles
- How to pay $1m per gigabyte for mobile data'¦
- On No, not another cellphone radiation reducing gizmo!
- Google kicks off Android home invasion
- In search of the elusive National Digital Economy Strategy
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