Broadband News
Thu, 29th Sep 2011
Wireless mobility overtakes copper
Australians anxious to stay connected on the road have pushed wireless ahead of copper as the most common form of broadband.
Source: Australian IT
Wed, 28th Sep 2011
Turnbull, Google butt heads on fibre benefits
Shadow communications minister Malcolm Turnbull clashed with a lead of Google's US fibre-to-the-home project in Paris last night over whether faster broadband would benefit consumers.
Source: iTnews Australia
Vocus fears Telstra duct eviction
Vocus Fibre has raised concerns that it and other lessees of Telstra duct space could be forcibly evicted to make way for NBN Co.
Source: iTnews Australia
PM launches new broadband lab in Melbourne
The National Broadband Network (NBN) will encourage more people to work from home and make it easier to live and work in rural and regional Australia, the federal government says.
Source: Computerworld
Opposition uses World Broadband Forum to lay boot into NBN
The Opposition has used the Broadband World Forum to once again dismiss the Federal Government’s National Broadband Network (NBN), this time on an international stage.
Source: Computerworld
ACMA cracks anti-spam whip
ACMA has told the business community to ensure customers can unsubscribe from their email lists or face spamming penalties.
Source: Australian IT
iiNet launches Cloud SMB service
Telco, iiNet has introduced a new Cloud-based telephone service aimed at SMBs.
Source: ARN
Tue, 27th Sep 2011
Telstra "4G": where will you be able to get it?
It's one of the faster wireless services in Australia, but Telstra's new 4G LTE service isn't available everywhere. Find out if you're in the coverage zone.
Source: PC Authority
Telstra's mobile network goes all IP, for 2G 3G and LTE
Ericsson says that it and Telstra have created a world first by installing an all IP core network that carries data not only for Telstra's new LTE network but for its existing 2G and 3G networks.
Source: iTWire
Doubling broadband speeds would boost Aus GDP by $3.9b
Ericsson has released findings from a study across 33 OECD economies, including Australia, that, it says found that a doubling of broadband speed produced a 0.3 percent increase in the GDP of that economy - $A3.9b in the case of Australia.
Source: iTWire
NBN Co exceeds IT spend expectations
NBN Co has spent more than expected standing up IT systems ahead of commercial availabillity of broadband services.
Source: iTnews Australia
Broadband set to overtake telephone revenues for telcos
Consumer fixed broadband revenues are set to double in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region next year, according to analyst firm Ovum.
Source: Computerworld
Mobile broadband data is king to telcos
The amount of data generated by business technology systems, digital cameras and mobile phones has grown over the past several years.
Source: Computerworld
Telstra opens LTE service to all
Telstra will make its LTE service generally available today, 27 September at the same prices as current HSPA services and to all new postpaid customers will offer a USB modem with LTE capability.
Source: iTWire
NBN Co reports $323m loss in 2010/11
The builder of the National Broadband Network (NBN), NBN Co, made a $323 million loss in the 2010 financial year.
Source: Computerworld
Telstra's 4G LTE mobile network turned on today: plus, its 4G strategy explained
Telstra today commenced its rollout of Australia's first 4G LTE mobile network in limited metro and regional areas. We look at the tech & thinking behind Telstra's 4G strategy.
Source: APC Magazine
Mon, 26th Sep 2011
NBN jobs forecast slashed by 21,000
Only 16,000 workers will be needed to build the National Broadband Network, not the 37,000 forecast by the government when it announced the project two years ago.
Source: SMH
It's data, not speed that carries the NBN
The key to the National Broadband Network (NBN) having an edge over wireless technologies is data quotas, not speeds.
Source: ZDNet Australia
How to: choosing the best business ISP
Unhappy with your current ISP and looking for something new, or have your business needs changed and your current provider no longer cuts the mustard? If so, what should you look out for in a business-focused ISP?
Source: Computerworld
Sat, 24th Sep 2011
Wireless popularity increasing, fixed lines dominate downloads last year
The increasing take-up of mobile data services did not come at the expense of fixed line services in 2009-10, according to a new report from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission tabled in Parliament yesterday.
Source: iTWire
Fri, 23rd Sep 2011
ACCC gets set to slash mobile charge
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has forged ahead with plans to drop the current rate that mobile companies pay to connect calls between mobile networks, despite calls from Optus and Vodafone to maintain the status quo.
Source: ZDNet Australia
NBN pricing has more to do with politics than economics
Australia's proposed national broadband network has probably been written about much more than any other tech topic since it was announced. This probably indicates that the existing infrastructure is not really up to providing the kind of speeds that people need in this day and age.
Source: iTWire
NBN is too expensive for the innumerate
A spirited multi-pronged assault has been waged on NBN pricing, pursuing a familiar technique to create a negative climate around the NBN project. David Havyatt explores the claims and finds them wanting.
Source: iTnews Australia
Telstra confirms it will wholesale 3G
Telstra has officially confirmed that it will begin wholesaling its 3G network, and hopes to have telcos on-board within six months.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Thu, 22nd Sep 2011
Why NBN services will cost you more
There are few more politically emotive issues in Australia (aside from asylum seekers) than the NBN. One of the issues is the cost of services for users. Make no mistake, under the proposed mandated regime the NBN will cost more than what consumers and businesses currently pay for broadband and the reasons should be clear to anyone with a modicum of objectivity.
Source: iTWire
Alcatel-Lucent to offer training in NBN skills at UTS
The University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) is to launch technical facilities and a training program provided by Alcatel-Lucent at its Blackfriars campus starting in the first semester 2012.
Source: iTWire
Wed, 21st Sep 2011
iiNet predicts 27% cost drop on NBN
Internet service provider (ISP) iiNet has told investors that it expects to cut down its average cost per user by 27 per cent once all customers have been migrated onto the National Broadband Network (NBN).
Source: ZDNet Australia
iiNet touts NBN benefits, details migration plans
iiNet has moved to re-assure its investors that the NBN will be good for iiNet, its customer and for the nation as a whole with a lengthy presentation that compares its initial prices for NBN delivered services favourably with its current offerings and details its plans to migrate service delivery from copper to the NBN.
Source: iTWire
Telstra debuts online portal for mobile customers
Telstra has introduced an online portal that enables its postpaid mobile customers to track their data usage and spending from their handsets. However it provides no information to users of 'capped' plans on how much of their monthly included call/sms/mms value they have used.
Source: iTWire
NBN committee delayed by missing KPIs
The joint committee investigating the roll-out of the Federal Government's National Broadband Network (NBN) project was forced to cut off a hearing early last night, after NBN Co failed to deliver a progress report to the committee on time.
Source: ZDNet Australia