The increasing take-up of mobile data services did not come at the expense of fixed line services in 2009-10, according to a new report from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission tabled in Parliament yesterday.

Fibre to the premises connections in Asia Pacific are expected to exceed DSL in 2014, a technology industry analyst is predicting.

Vodafone is set to offer its business customers a range of hosted services that will be provided by Microsoft.

Many suspected it because of anecdotal evidence that often apartment renters no longer bother to connect fixed line phones. Now a new report confirms it. Nearly half of household consumers with a phone in Australia prefer to use their mobile phones as their primary means of voice communications.