Broadband News
Wed, 29th Aug 2012
Asian expansion helps boost Vocus results
Winning business from Asian carriers operating on the Singapore route and the flow through of benefits from the expanding cloud market has helped Australian-listed telecommunications provider of Data Centre, Dark Fibre and International Internet connectivity, Vocus Communications, to a big increase in earnings and an expansion in revenue to $45.29 million for the full year 2012.
Source: iTWire
Coalition pledges to review Huawei's NBN lockout
Shadow communications minister Malcolm Turnbull has pledged to review Huawei's exclusion from National Broadband Network contracts should the Coalition come into power.
Source: iTnews Australia
Tue, 28th Aug 2012
Vocus continues fibre optic network expansion
Vocus Communications plans to add 40km of fibre optic cable to its network in the coming financial year, further expanding its reach.
Source: iTnews Australia
Telstra 4G to reach 66% of Aussies by June 2013
Telstra has announced plans to extend its LTE to 66.6 per cent of Australians by June 2013.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Telstra Wi-Fi gives Coke super-fast speeds
Coca-Cola Amatil has signed a deal with Telstra to deploy 3000 digital media units that will give people free Wi-Fi with their Coke purchase.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Mon, 27th Aug 2012
Telstra DNSChanger infections have almost halved
It's been about a month and a half since the temporary DNSChanger servers were cut from the internet, so how has Telstra's temporary redirect worked during that time?
Source: ZDNet Australia
Huawei rails against Aus Govt 'vendor discrimination'
Chinese telco giant Huawei has warned that proposed changes to telecommunications security legislation might harm competition by discriminating against particular vendors and their countries of origin.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Optus puts Facebook credits, BlackBerry apps on the phone bill
Optus has announced arrangements that will allow its subscribers to charge BlackBerry App World and Facebook credits purchases to their mobile phone accounts.
Source: iTWire
Telstra adds wholesale data products
Telstra announced a set of data products for wholesale customers available today.
Source: Computerworld
Optus signs on for BlackBerry, Facebook direct bill payments
Optus has jumped on the payments innovation bandwagon, allowing its customers to pay by having charges put on their mobile phone bill.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Fri, 24th Aug 2012
NBN satellite ground station to be built at Ceduna
Ceduna in South Australia has been announced as the location for another satellite ground station for the National Broadband Network (NBN).
Source: Computerworld
NBN spurs business process overhaul at Telstra
The NBN has driven Telstra to overhaul internal processes to become more competitive, according to Telstra director of products and IT enablement, Jenny Wood.
Source: Computerworld
Conroy skips beat on digital inclusion
The Federal Government has reserved action on recommendations by the Sinclair Review to expand digital inclusion programs beyond NBN release sites in regional Australia.
Source: iTnews Australia
Vodafone NZ deploys 100Gbs data network
Vodafone New Zealand has rolled out what it claims is the fastest data network in the country with a reported speed of 100 gigabits per second (Gbs).
Source: Computerworld
NBN delivers 50 jobs to SA
South Australia has benefitted to the tune of 50 jobs from construction on what the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, has dubbed 'vital elements' of the National Broadband Network.
Source: ARN
NBN Co's CIO steps down
Claire Rawlins has stepped down from her position as chief information officer of NBN Co after leading its greenfield IT organisation for almost three years.
Source: iTnews Australia
Thu, 23rd Aug 2012
Internode picks Inomial OSS/BSS for new NodeMobile service
Inomial, an Australian developer of web based billing, automation, accounting and network monitoring software for telcos, says that Internode has deployed its Smile revenue system to support its recently launched NodeMobile SIM-only mobile service.
Source: iTWire
Telstra CIO makes space for IT mistakes
Telstra has established a space for IT team members to publicise their mistakes and what they learned from them as part of the telco's move to create an adaptive, "agile" culture internally.
Source: iTnews Australia
New Zealand's broadband muddle
New Zealand's broadband network has been held up as an example for Australia. But is it as good as some might think?
Source: ZDNet Australia
Macquarie Telecom targets business NBN market
Despite a 7.7 per cent drop in telco revenue, Macquarie Telecom firmly has its sights on the business end of the market for the National Broadband Network (NBN).
Source: Computerworld
Poll: 47% don't think they need 4G, but Apple is likely to change that with new iPhone release
Results from a new Piper Jaffray poll show consumers don't think they need 4G, but I am pretty sure Apple will change all of that with the next iPhone announcement. Once you taste the speed of LTE, you don't want to go back.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Wed, 22nd Aug 2012
Turnbull's NBN French KISS is right, but so wrong
Malcolm Turnbull has been caught investing in a telco that's rolling out fibre to the home, despite opposing such a move in Australia.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Rackspace Hosting launches Sydney datacentre
Open Cloud company, Rackspace Hosting, has launched its first Australian datacentre.
Source: ARN
Parliament House gets free wifi
The Department of Parliamentary Services has committed to spending $10,000 a year on free wifi for visitors, politicians and employees of Parliament House.
Source: iTnews Australia
Turnbull likes fibre to the home - in France
Opposition communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull is opposed to putting fibre-optic cables all the way into households - but that is what he is investing in.
Source: SMH
News Corp boss demands ISP action on 'copyright bandits'
News Limited chief executive Kim Williams is demanding new copyright laws to protect creative works and for ISPs and network providers to take responsibility for the actions of their users.
Source: iTnews Australia
Tue, 21st Aug 2012
Telstra to close two regional call centres
Telstra will make at least 422 staff redundant and close two regional call centres in a wide restructure of its customer service division.
Source: iTnews Australia
Amcom records double figure profit jump
Telco and converged IT services provider Amcom Telecommunications's net profit after tax jumped 10 per cent to $24.8m in the year ended June 30.
Source: ARN
Conroy calls for Turnbull to release Coalition broadband plans
The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, has called on Malcolm Turnbull to stop hiding from the Australian people and release the Coalition's broadband plan.
Source: ARN
By the numbers: iiNet and TPG get it on
On-net customers are the only ones worth having. iiNet has to get more of them through organic growth if it is to reduce its costs per customer.
Source: ZDNet Australia