When the founders of Skype sold it to eBay for a total in excess of US $3 billion everyone thought it was the deal of the decade. Now it seems that might be yet to come if they can buy it back with a billion dollar discount.

One of the world’s most popular Internet phone services, Skype, is finally set to make its mark in an official capacity on the other two most important phone platforms it hasn’t yet supported: the iPhone and the BlackBerry, with iPhone action starting on Tuesday, and the BlackBerry cherry popping in May.

A new web-based telephony application is being touted by its developer as a soon to be released VoIP application on the iPhone App Store. The application has already been submitted and is awaiting approval according to the developer.

Just a week after Internode boss, Simon Hackett announced an FTTH service with speeds up to 100mbps and ridiculed the proposed NBN target speeds of 12mbps, the South Australian ISP has launched a new service which it says is designed to deliver high performance, fully symmetrical Internet access to Australian businesses.

International mobile roaming tariffs are back on the agenda with the completion of the KPMG report commissioned by the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy for the House of Representatives' parliamentary inquiry. But are some analysts pointing us in the wrong direction?

The movement from traditional voice telephony to Internet based VoIP services in homes is picking up steam, driven by the emergence of Naked DSL, according to a new report.

In a scene reminiscent of a Star Wars Jedi Council meeting, Australia's dominant carrier Telstra has projected a life-size 3-D hologram of its chief technology officer to give a business presentation in real time hundreds of kilometres away. The presentation held in Adelaide saw a not perfect but passable 3-D colour image of Dr Hugh Bradlow on stage which was beamed from Melbourne, more than 700 km distant.

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.