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Friday, 3rd September 2010
AAPT shooting blanks over email
iTnews Australia - 0 Comments
ISP AAPT has sent blank emails to customers in an attempt to advise them of the impending sale of their consumer broadband or phone account to iiNet.
Telstra move worries rivals
Australian IT - 0 Comments
The closure of a South Brisbane telephony exchange has Telstra's competitors fuming.
Thursday, 2nd September 2010
Internode flags business market push
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Internet service provider, Internode has flagged its intention to increasingly target the business market, announcing the opening of a Brisbane office to dirctly service its existing and expanding customer base in the sunshine state.
Treasury claims $900m Coalition NBN shortfall
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The Coalition's promised savings from scrapping the National Broadband Network were $900 million out over four years, a Treasury analysis claimed.
No one is selfless in NBN debate
ZDNet Australia - 0 Comments
One of the signatories to a national broadband proposal unveiled at the eleventh hour to rival Labor's own long-running NBN project has accused vendors and telcos of stirring up hype for a fibre-optic cable future in line with a view to serving their own interests in generating massive contracts and gaining operating certainty.
Treasury costings scant on NBN details
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You might have expected that the Treasury's costings of the two major party's election policies - released to the Independents and the media late yesterday - would contain a fair amount of detail about how much each party's wildly differing broadband policy would cost.
Wednesday, 1st September 2010
If NBN 3.0 can promise "up to 100Mbps" by wireless why can't NBN Co?
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We now have two new acronyms in the every growing lexicon of telecommunications - NBN 3.0 and AAB, the Alliance for Affordable Broadband - along with the promise of near FTTH performance from wireless networks: all from a 'gang of seven' CEOs who, with two exceptions, are exclusively providers of wireless communications services.
Telstra overhauls Torres Strait broadband
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Telstra has embarked on a $5.3 million project to improve broadband services for islands in the Torres Strait region of far northern Queensland.
Business leaders call for NBN
Australian IT - 0 Comments
A group of telecommunications executives yesterday made an 11th-hour plea to independent MPs over the National Broadband Network.
Analysts explains why some telcos don't want an NBN
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Analysts have provided lukewarm responses to an open letter from senior telco executives that criticises the Government's National Broadband Network.
Telcos back coalition-style NBN, slam Labor
ZDNet Australia - 0 Comments
A new telecommunications lobby group laden with telco chiefs has trashed the $43 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) and backed a privately-run wireless network worth some $3 billion that is reminiscent of coalition policy which it dubbed NBN 3.0.
NBN3 Wireless plan needs 4G spectrum fast-track
iTnews Australia - 0 Comments
A wireless National Broadband Network proposal aired late yesterday called for the expedited release of 4G spectrum by regulators as well as access to Telstra backhaul and mobile towers to cut out further costs.
Telcos lob broadband grenade: Abbott may be right
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An alliance of large telcos has lobbed a last-minute grenade into talks around who will form the next government by proposing a new broadband plan that appears more aligned with the Coalition's policy than Labor's national broadband network.
Tuesday, 31st August 2010
Rebel yell: NBN 3.0 is a much better idea
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A splinter group of rebel telecommunications players have broken with their Australian brethren's long-standing support for Labor's National Broadband Network policy, publishing their own NBN 3.0 model in an apparent attempt to influence the independent members of parliament who may decide the next Federal Government.
Gillard cautions against "savage" NBN cuts
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard has argued that the national broadband network should not be cut or savaged "just when it's making a real difference".
20 things to do with a big, fast Internet plan: Listen to Internet radio
PC Authority - 0 Comments
Digital radio might offer access to a few dozen stations, but internet radio over broadband brings the world to your doorstep.
Vividwireless goes social, open source to attract uni students
Computerworld - 0 Comments
University students will form the target demographic of vividwireless' push into the Sydney and Melbourne market as it ramps up the national rollout of its WiMAX network.
Broadband ranks low in Kennedy
Australian IT - 0 Comments
Bob Katter won't find a single paragraph devoted to broadband in a briefing prepared by two local government officials.
NBN top priority for Wilkie
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Key independent Andrew Wilkie has named completion of Tasmania's National Broadband Network in a list of requirements to win his support.
Monday, 30th August 2010
NBN to survive but not intact: Budde
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The National Broadband Network appeared likely to survive a fierce debate over its immediate future but would not escape unscathed, said telecommunications analyst Paul Budde.
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