AAPT has drawn from within its own ranks to boost its senior management team as chief executive, Paul Broad pursues a strategy to drive increased business to its consumer, business and wholesale divisions.

TransACT, a provider of Internet, cable TV and telephony services in the ACT, has awarded wholesale communications provider, Vocus a contract to provide IP transit services that will be worth in excess of $0.5 million per year.

Wholesale telecommunications services vendor, Vocus, has brought in a new account manager as part of its stated strategy and claim to deliver services which will “shake up” the Australian wholesale telecommunications industry.

Australia's peak communications industry body is preparing to help develop wholesale service models for the National Broadband Network (NBN).

ISP EFTel (ASX: EFT) is ramping up its wholesale offerings with the launch of an expanded wholesale division headed up by industry veteran Warwick Pye.

Thanks to Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Australia is going through the hurdles of choosing the technology for a “National Broadband Network” (NBN), smack bang in the middle of a time when wireless technology is improving so much that going wired almost seems like going backwards.

iiNet, Australia's third largest ISP, and Internode have blasted Communications Alliance, the telecoms industry's peak body, over a report to the ACCC on migrating telephony services to the unconditioned local loop (ULLS) claiming that its supposedly independent processes have been hijacked by Telstra.

Competition in the ADSL2+ market is set to ramp up with People Telecom (ASX: PEO) becoming the first service provider in Australia to sign a wholesale agreement with Telstra enabling it to resell Telstra's ADSL2+ services.

Australia’s southern island, Tasmania, has two fibre optic connections to the mainland, but with only one carrying consumer and business traffic, and the other apparently laying idle. With major ISP, Internode, ceasing the sign-up of new ADSL2+ consumer customers, is the Apple isle suffering affordable Internet denial?

Telstra has worked with Alcatel-Lucent to lay a 9,000 kilometre submarine cable between Hawaii and Australia, giving up to 1.28 Terabits per second of connectivity between the two countries.