Smelly Black Dog Internet is proud to announce that the company has signed up for Simtronic Technologies new wholesale broadband service as an early adopter, and by doing so has access to the Simtronic IPv6 Transit. Colleen Scafe (Director of Smelly Black Dog) states that the company chose Simtronic Technologies over other providers, as Simtronic Technologies is a technologically progressive company and shares the same goals as Smelly Black Dog. Smelly Black Dog Internet now provides IPv6 access for not only business but for all broadband users in all parts of Australia. This means that for all Australians that native IPv6 connectivity is now more accessible than ever before.

National ISP, Internode, says its acquisition by iiNet is already paying dividends for its customers, with its most popular broadband services now available through 450 telephone exchanges nationally.

Telstra's major competitors, from Optus downwards have been unanimous in calling on the ACCC to regulate Telstra's wholesale ADSL service.

Optus has unveiled a range of NBN broadband offerings that will be available in all the mainland first release sites either stand alone or at discounted rates when bundled with Optus fixed line telephony or mobile services.

iiNet's latest 'naked DSL' advertisement featuring a 2-frame insert has been banned by CAD, the free-to-air industry group.

Following the release of our new internet plans in early September, many users now have access to faster Internet speeds and a more generous download limit then they previously had. Due to the popularity of the new access plans, SBDC has grown by a staggering 45% in one month.

Research firm Telsyte estimates that NBN FTTH connections will exceed ADSL in 2015 with about three million connections and reach 4.2m homes by 2017.

Is there no end to the amount of functionality chipmakers can pack into a single device? Not only does the latest offering from Broadcom support ADSL+ and VDSL2 on the upstream side, it has the latest technologies for squeezing more out of copper: vectoring and bonding and on the downstream side it supports 802.11n WiFi, DECT for cordless telephony support and home automation, VoIP and ethernet switching.

Internode has revised its broadband plans, generally increasing the incentives for users to bundle broadband and phone service by increasing unbundled prices. It has blamed the price increases on the ACCC's failure to curb Telstra increasing prices for its monopoly wholesale services.

Internode has taken advantage of new competitive fibre backhaul capacity installed under the Regional Backbone Blackspots Program to offer ADSL services via it own DSLAM in Victor Harbor, and has similar plans for several other towns.