Broadband News
Wed, 08th Jun 2011
G.hn home wiring broadband technology ready for prime time
Proponents of the G.hn home networking standard have hailed the success of the latest multi-vendor interoperability event as evidence that the technology is now on the cusp of commercial availability.
Source: iTWire
Telstra Home Broadband: The state of play
Is the ISP that's traditionally been Australia's most expensive becoming Australia's best value? We look at the numbers to work out what's happening with Telstra's home broadband offerings.
Source: PC Authority
Aus a blip on real-time IPv6 Internet radar
Application scaling provider Akamai Technologies has developed a real-time graph of IPv6 traffic across its network for World IPv6 Day today, but unfortunately Australia hardly rates a mention.
Source: Computerworld
iiNet grooms DC2 for growth: just add fibre
ISP iiNet, now the country's second-largest supplier of DSL broadband, has built out additional data centre capacity at home in Perth to cater for further growth.
Source: iTnews Australia
Tue, 07th Jun 2011
Telstra bundles twice as much broadband
Telstra has served notice to its broadband competitors: match this! The telco's latest Complete Home Bundles range offers twice the broadband data allowances of previous bundles.
Source: ARN
Expect the unexpected on IPv6 Day: ISOC-AU
The Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU) has advised IT departments to expect the unexpected when World IPv6 Day kicks off on the 8 June.
Source: Computerworld
Internode cuts price of some Telstra services
Internode has begun offering its cheapest plan yet for users on selected Telstra ports.
Source: iTnews Australia
Telstra doubles bundled data quotas
The nation's biggest telco, Telstra, has more than doubled the amount of data quota it provides under existing bundled plans.
Source: ZDNet Australia
The end of the net as we know it? The evolution of IPv6
IP addresses are running out, but as Douglas Adams might have said: don't panic. We explain the IPv6 solution and what it means for you.
Source: APC Magazine
Telecoms Society calls on industry to identify opportunities from NBN
The Telecommunications Society of Australia has issued a 'call to arms' to the industry to "identify and address current NBN policy opportunities, in order to maximise the benefits of the services delivered via the NBN infrastructure and to encourage investment in new, innovative and beneficial services."
Source: iTWire
Outback towns will benefit most from NBN
In outback Queensland towns where mail and food supplies take weeks to arrive, fast speed broadband cannot come soon enough.
Source: ARN
Mon, 06th Jun 2011
Between NBN Co and a hard place
Risk is an interesting conundrum. Risk plus unions an even more interesting one.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Our 4G perfect for emergency use: Telstra
Commercial 4G networks would be much better suited for the communications of emergency services than dedicated networks, which will be prohibitively expensive due to high labour and construction costs, the nation's largest telecommunications company Telstra has said.
Source: ZDNet Australia
ISPs sceptical of ACMA customer service report
The nation's internet service providers (ISPs) have responded with scepticism at recommendations for lifting customer service contained in the communication regulator's draft Reconnecting the Customer report.
Source: Computerworld
Music and film industries split over pirates
The music industry has backflipped on its long-held demands that repeat music pirates be disconnected from the internet as a new UN report declares such a policy would be a breach of human rights and international law.
Source: SMH
Telstra reaches for 500 GB quotas
Telstra is expected to launch its first fixed line broadband plans with 500 gigabyte quotas today, more than doubling its highest previous offering to home users.
Source: iTnews Australia
Workers may hold NBN to ransom
The taxpayer-funded National Broadband Network could suffer uncontrolled cost blowouts.
Source: Australian IT
NBN ramp-up to take 18 months
The builders of the National Broadband Network (NBN) will not be in full production mode for another 18 months, and it is too early to speculate about profits and volumes, NBN Co acting chief executive, Kevin Brown, says.
Source: ARN
Fri, 03rd Jun 2011
Australia celebrates 25 years as master of its own domain
The Australian ICT and business communities yesterday celebrated 25 years on top with .au domain names at a gala event at Melbourne Museum. AusRegistry, the provider of .au domain names, chief executive, Adrian Kinderis, said Australia is "punching above its weight in cyberspace".
Source: Computerworld
Apple co-founder: US will never have an NBN
The US-based co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak, said Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) was "a great model" but believed his home country will never adopt a ubiquitous high-speed broadband network that is accessible to all citizens.
Source: ARN
Become a fan: Telstra works hard to be liked
Telstra has increased its investment in social media, but has been unable to stem the tidal wave of negative comments about its brand.
Source: SMH
Internet 2.0: your guide to the national broadband network
If email was the "killer app" which got so many of us hooked on the net when it first came out, then what will a faster, national broadband network (NBN)-connected future look like?
Source: SMH
Victorian Govt raises NBN design concerns
The Victorian Government has questioned the extent to which NBN Co has thought about emergency communications needs in its network design.
Source: iTnews Australia
Thu, 02nd Jun 2011
Deal signals start of NBN mass rollout
The first mass rollout of federal Labor's $36 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) will begin in November after NBN Co made a "value-for-money" deal to deploy the optic fibre component.
Source: Computerworld
Telstra eyes 2012 copper switch-off in South Brisbane
Telstra has revealed plans to switch off copper services in South Brisbane by the end of 2012 as it begins rolling out a replacement fibre network in the area.
Source: iTnews Australia
Telstra switches on Brisbane fibre
The nation's largest telco Telstra yesterday began switching on the new fibre broadband services it has recently installed in the South Brisbane exchange area, as it continues its project to replace its copper network in the area.
Source: iTWire
Content owners don't back AFACT: iiNet
Content providers are stepping away from the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT)'s pursuit of ISPs over copyright infringement, and are open to iiNet's piracy mediator model, according to iiNet's chief regulatory officer Steve Dalby.
Source: ZDNet Australia
AFACT to pay 60% of iiNet legal costs
The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) yesterday won a small victory in its legal battle against iiNet, with the Federal Court deciding that the organisation only had to pay 60 per cent of iiNet's legal costs for lost court cases.
Source: ZDNet Australia
CeBIT: Victoria NBN opt-in policy 'short-sighted': Bartlett
Former Tasmanian Premier David Bartlett has described the decision by Victoria's State Government to pursue an 'opt-in' policy regarding connecting residents and businesses to the National Broadband Network as "very short-sighted", arguing for much broader government engagement and focus on the network to maximise its positive outcomes.
Source: iTWire
Internet traffic to approach a zettabyte by 2015
Worldwide Internet traffic is set to quadruple in the next four years according to a major network hardware vendor.
Source: iTWire