Adelaide-based startup, Red Button Technologies' emergency calling system, Assure Connect, has received a significant boost, with St John's Ambulance backing and promoting the service

After allowing for currency fluctuations Primus Telecom has reported that net revenue for its Australian subsidiary in Q1 of 2010 increased $US1.3m or 1.9 percent, from fourth quarter 2009 and decreased $US0.7m or 1.4 percent, from first quarter 2009.

Primus Telecom is aiming to be one of the first ISPs to offer retail NBN services.

The CEO of Primus Australia, Ravi Bhatia, says the company exceeded its EBITDA and revenue targets for the year to 31 December.

Primus Telecom is putting in place the content and technology to enable it to deliver IPTV services to its ADSL customers, but CEO Ravi Bhatia says he remains unconvinced there will be sufficient demand to merit launching the service.

Three of Australia's largest ISPs, Telstra, Optus and Primus - all participants in the Government's filtering trial - have come out in support of the measures announced today to implement mandatory ISP side filtering of Internet content.

Most of Australia's tier 2 carriers have bandied together to issue a joint statement calling on all members of Parliament and senators to support the passage of the telecoms reform legislation and not to delay considering it.

The consumer watchdog’s draft pricing for fixed-line wholesale services will kill new investment in copper-based broadband, punching a big hole in any interim planning in the lead up to the years-away NBN roll-out, access seekers say.

The Australian Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman’s (TIO) office has released a report analysing complaints they have received against essentially all Australian telecommunications companies.  This report reflects the TIO’s desire to assist with improvement rather than simply wielding a big stick.

Primus Telecom has again been forced to apologise to customers as its Melbourne data centre crashed for several hours Sunday evening – the third time the facility has failed this year.