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Thursday, 15th December 2011
Telstra gets telco licences in Singapore and Japan
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Telstra is ramping up its Asian presence. It has secured licences in Singapore and Japan that allow it to own network infrastructure and serve customers directly over this infrastructure, just months after obtaining telco licences in India.
Wednesday, 14th December 2011
Why do we still pay for home phones?
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Why is half of Australia still paying $30 per month for a phone line?
Internode finagles multicast workaround on NBN fibre
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Internode is set to trial unicast technology on its network for the first time in an attempt to provide the full suite of fetchtv services over the National Broadband Network and other greenfield fibre networks.
Internode on a high with customers
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National broadband company Internode seems to have found the formula for keeping its Internet customers happy, with the ISP once again topping an industry survey, this time with a 96 percent customer satisfaction rating, and with rival iiNet the only other ISP with a rating of more than 90 percent.
Visionstream nabs $19 million NBN transit network contract
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Leighton Group subsidiary, Visionstream, has been awarded a $19 million contract by NBN Co to help build the transit part of the National Broadband Network (NBN).
Primus gains telephone accreditation with NBN
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Primus has gained accreditation to deliver fixed-line telephone services to customers on the NBN and is now fully accredited for both broadband and telephone services.
Internode offers fetchtv over FTTH networks - without multicast
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Internode has launched trial of the fetchTV IPTV service to its customers connected to the NBN's FTTH network and those on FTTH networks provided by Opticomm in new housing developments.
Telstra appoints new CFO
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Telstra has appointed Andrew Penn, former chief of superannuation and insurance firm AXA, as its new chief financial officer and group managing director finance.
Conroy's NBN lecture lacks "intellectual rigour": Turnbull
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Opposition communications minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has argued against communications minister Stephen Conroy's attack on the Coalition's broadband policy as lacking "intellectual rigour or consistency".
Tuesday, 13th December 2011
Conroy comes out swinging on broadband
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Communications minister Senator Stephen Conroy has laid the opposition’s broadband plans to ridicule in a fiery televised speech.
Good news for the NBN: mobiles' share of Internet downloads still minimal
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Australians now on average each have 1.5 mobile services, but despite there being almost five million dedicated mobile broadband devices in use and almost 10 million mobile handsets used to access the Internet, 93 percent of Internet downloads still take place over fixed networks.
Monday, 12th December 2011
Washup from Friday's Telstra data breach
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We don't yet know why, but we sure know what was breached. 60,000 user accounts containing detailed of their accounts (including passwords) and the services used. The Privacy Commissioner is investigating.
8 free Wi-Fi stumbling and surveying tools
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Even if you have an enterprise-level Wi-Fi spectrum analyzer, like Wi-Spy or AirMagnet, free Wi-Fi tools can also come in handy. You might use them during the planning or installation stages of your wireless LAN, while troubleshooting, or when performing maintenance. They could even serve as your primarily tools in smaller and less-complex environments.
Town Wi-Fi is no NBN killer
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Whenever there's a new claim about something being an "NBN killer", there's always a reason to be cynical.
Telstra customers face password reset
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Telstra has reset the passwords of around 60,000 customers as a precaution against hacking of its BigPond customer data base.
Sunday, 11th December 2011
Internode NBN connection for Qld house in flood aftermath
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Internode has turned on high-speed broadband services at the first house in a new subdivision in the Queensland town of Grantham, which is being rebuilt on higher ground after it was ravaged by floods in January.
Saturday, 10th December 2011
BigPond email back online
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The majority of BigPond email users have been reconnected after a privacy breach shut down the system for more than 24 hours.
Telstra probes privacy breach amid network outage
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Telstra has blamed a privacy breach for the disabling of internet services that's affected up to one million BigPond email users.
Friday, 9th December 2011
Telstra customer database exposed
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Detailed information about Telstra's customer accounts - including usernames and passwords - has been found to be sitting on the open web for anyone to access via a Google search.
NBN flirting with competition breach: report
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An investigation by an office of the Productivity Commission has found that while it's not anti-competitive for the National Broadband Network Company (NBN Co) to become the fibre provider of last resort for new housing estates, its rate of return for the network could be in breach of competitive neutrality rules.
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