Broadband News
Fri, 07th Aug 2009
Telstra backs out of Melbourne's Chancellor Estate
Telstra will not roll copper into the Chancellor housing estate at University Hill near Melbourne despite deploying copper to about 60 percent of the suburb.
Source: iTnews Australia
Video Wide: NBN delays 'almost inevitable': Lundy
ACT senator and former shadow Minister for ICT Kate Lundy told ZDNet.com.au last month in a video interview that a project as large as the National Broadband Network was bound to see schedule slippage.
Source: ZDNet Australia
ispOne renews Telstra Wholesale contract
Sub-wholesaler ispOne has renewed its ADSL and fixed line telephony wholesale agreement with Telstra with expectations it will spend $1.5 million a month on the services.
Source: iTnews Australia
NBN will cause a social tipping point: Senator Kate Lundy
The National Broadband Network (NBN) will give the Government the incentive it needs to invest in the digital sector, according to ACT Senator Kate Lundy who spoke at a Wikimedia event in Canberra today.
Source: Computerworld
NBN Co board lacks net smarts
The federal government has named the board that will oversee its $43 billion national broadband network, revealing a team of executives strong in legal and business experience.
Source: Australian IT
Telstra admits to exchange access deception
Telstra has admitted to the Federal Court that it rejected requests for third parties to install equipment in telephone exchanges across the country where space was found to have been available.
Source: iTnews Australia
Analysis: How secure is an optical-fibre network?
Many countries are looking to roll out optical-fibre connectivity to support next-generation broadband access, giving download speeds of 100Mbit/s with low latency and greater upload capacity than is associated with conventional asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) technology.
Source: iTnews Australia
Thu, 06th Aug 2009
Primus inks capacity deal on Basslink
Primus Telecom will use the Basslink subsea fibre cable as its primary transmission link into Tasmania after inking an agreement today.
Source: iTnews Australia
Shadow Minister slams NBN 'incompetence'
Shadow Minister for Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy Nick Minchin has blasted as "incompetence and mismanagement" the appointment of McKinsey-KPMG as lead advisor to the National Broadband Network (NBN) implementation study.
Source: iTWire
Internet needs fundamental changes to survive
The basic TCP/IP protocols are unsuited to the modern internet, and a new system is needed that sacrifices openness for accountability, experts have warned.
Source: PC Authority
Optus bids for rural NBN work
Australia's second largest telco Optus today said it supported the Federal Government's plans for the National Broadband Network (NBN) and has lodged bids for tender for the first step.
Source: ZDNet Australia
KPMG, McKinsey take NBN advisory role
Kpmg and McKinsey have snared the lead advisory role to undertake an implementation study into the federal government's $43 billion national broadband network.
Source: Australian IT
Telstra admits denying access
Telstra could face a fine of up to $300 million after admitting to the Federal Court it was guilty of misleading and deceptive conduct in denying competitors access to its copper network.
Source: Australian IT
NBN board and implementation study lead revealed
The Federal Government has appointed five new directors to the NBNCo board to join executive chair, Michael Quigley.
Source: ARN
Wed, 05th Aug 2009
Unwired urges telcos to share network maps
A senate inquiry into proposed amendments to the Telecommunications Act yesterday heard that there is a need for network owners to declare their existing investments in infrastructure, so that new builds do not overlap existing ones.
Source: iTnews Australia
Exetel plans to ban P2P during off-peak period
Internet Service Provider Exetel is considering a ban on peer-to-peer network traffic if users continue to set their P2P downloads to go off at the very second the provider's off-peak period starts.
Source: iTnews Australia
iiNet seeks ACMA help to boost case
Australia's third-largest ISP may recruit the telecommunications industry's peak regulators in its bid to beat a copyright lawsuit brought against it by a group of entertainment giants.
Source: Australian IT
Axia NetMedia eyes NBN role with Sydney office
Axia NetMedia has established a set up a team of four staff in Sydney specifically to identify opportunities to participate in the national broadband network.
Source: iTnews Australia
Union appointment to NBN Co board 'unlikely'
Any Rudd Government move to appoint a union representative without specific expertise to the board of the NBN Company would be strenuously opposed by the Opposition, Liberal Senate leader Nick Minchin said.
Source: iTWire
All states could be NBN winners
There are early signs that Queensland, NSW and Victoria could all be winners in their bid to host the national broadband network company.
Source: Australian IT
Telstra to plead guilty on access dispute
Telstra is expected to plead guilty today to breaching its obligations to provide competitors access to its copper network.
Source: ZDNet Australia
What future for the NBN when customers want mobile broadband?
Whenever Australia's National Broadband Network is held up as a threat to its business, Telstra likes to remind us that, at the end of the day customers decide which services and networks prosper and which languish. If those customers choose mobile broadband services, what future then for the NBN?
Source: iTWire
Tue, 04th Aug 2009
NBN threatens to put e-crime on steroids
Security watchdog AusCERT will present at Senate Estimates tomorrow to warn that the advent of the National Broadband Network could prove the equivalent of putting e-crime on steroids.
Source: iTWire
Amnet opens ADSL2+ to 295 exchanges
ISP Amnet has inked a wholesale agreement with Telstra that will enable it to offer ADSL2+ services across 295 exchanges in Western Australia and South Australia.
Source: iTnews Australia
Mon, 03rd Aug 2009
Battle of the bandwidths: Huawei v Telstra on HSDPA 'speed record'
Huawei claims to have recorded the fastest downlink speeds on a HSPA+ (High Speed Packet Access) commercial network of 18.2Mbps, yet Telstra claims a world record 21Mbps. So what's the story?
Source: iTWire
Conroy promises to release ISP-level filtering report
Senator Conroy has committed to the public release of a report based on the data gleaned from the Federal Government's trial of ISP-level internet filtering.
Source: iTnews Australia
Doug Campbell's in the hot seat
Forget about Mike Quigley. The man who is really under the gun for delivering the National Broadband Network is former Telstra executive Doug Campbell.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Current backhaul networks won't support the NBN, says Nortel
Nortel Networks has undertaken extensive modelling of traffic demands likely to be imposed on Australia's long haul domestic and international networks as a result of the NBN and says massive upgrades will be required.
Source: iTWire
Telstra sets pace in net trial
Telstra could speed up its interstate fibre-optic network by a factor of 10 by the end of next year after successfully testing new technology.
Source: Australian IT
Conroy quiet on naming national broadband network board
The directors of the company that will deliver the Rudd Government's national broadband network have yet to be named despite being expected by the end of July.
Source: The Courier-Mail