Optus has managed to grow its mobile subscriber base despite Telstra's addition of a massive one million new services in the past six months, but Vodafone continues to lose customers.

Internode has a history of coming out on top of ISP customer satisfaction surveys, and has just clocked an impressive 94% satisfaction on the latest Roy Morgan Research ISP survey.

The Federal Government has responded swiftly to the furore surrounding the copyright ruling on the Optus TV Now service: it has announced that the Australian Law Reform Commission will review the operation of copyright in the digital environment.

OzHub, the Macquarie Telecom-led cloud computing alliance, has come down firmly on the side of Optus over the copyright controversy surrounding Optus TV Now, warning that any moves to change the law "risk branding Australia a global luddite state."

F-Secure has announced a cloud based content storage and synchronisation service, Content Anywhere, that synchronises a user's files in the cloud, making them accessible on PCs, tablets, smartphones and digital TVs.

Optus has won a landmark court case which has defended the rights of its customers to utilise the TV now product to video record shows that are available at a time that is more convenient for its customers.

IPTV numbers are seriously on the rise with more than 300,000 Australian homes now accessing an IPTV service, meaning around one in ten subscription TV services are currently delivered over broadband.

Optus has announced prices for small business services offered over the NBN in the five first release sites.

Stephen Conroy, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, is reportedly foreshadowing changes in the legislation to stop Optus offering its TV Now service, following the company's court win last week. Any changes are likely to whittle away at the exemption we currently enjoy to time-shift programs.

Telstra, the AFL and NRL have lost the first round in their battle to have the Optus TV Now service ruled in breach of the Copyright Act. However they are expected to appeal the court judgement handed down today.