Wednesday, 22nd May 2013

ACMA shops 'freephone' charge changes

Australia's communications regulator is shopping a draft variation to its numbering plan that would make 18/1800 numbers free to call from mobile phones by January 2015.
Source: iTnews Australia

Google technology advocate sends NBN safety message

Australian information security professionals need to step up and protect consumers against the many threats that will be enabled by the national broadband network, according to Google chief technology advocate Michael T. Jones.
Source: iTnews Australia

Stop charging for privacy, ACCAN tells Telstra

Consumer body ACCAN is calling on the Government to ban Telstra's $36 a year Silent Line fee, which landline customers have to pay to keep their phone number private.
Source: iTWire

Vodafone still losing Australian customers

Customers continue to desert Vodafone's Australian operation in droves according to the latest set of group financials from the global mobile giant.
Source: iTnews Australia

Tuesday, 21st May 2013

City Circle mobile coverage a 15-year project

Optus says the project that brought mobile phone coverage into Sydney's train tunnels was 15 years in the making.
Source: ARN

First NBN fibre extension completed

A business in Tasmania was the first to take up NBN Co on its user-pays offer to extend fibre beyond the 93 percent footprint.
Source: ZDNet Australia

ACMA goes public with ISP malware statistics

Although ISPs and network operators have had access to the rough figures of malware infections for some time, the Australian Communications and Media Authority has now begun publishing the statistics for the public.
Source: ZDNet Australia

'New world record' for wireless data

A week after Samsung's supposed 5G breakthrough, German researchers have announced 40 Gbps wireless, comparable to speeds reached by fibre.
Source: iTWire

What's life really like on the NBN? (Part II)

Kiama is perhaps best known for its ocean views and a blowhole that spouts water up to 25m in the air.
Source: Computerworld

Aussie ISPs still seeing users with Zeus infections

Variants of the Zeus banking trojan account for the majority of malware infections in Australia, despite concerted attempts to disable the threat, according to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).
Source: iTnews Australia