Broadband News
Thu, 10th Feb 2011
Turnbull backs Greens on NBN FOI change
Opposition Communications Spokesperson Malcolm Turnbull has matched a call from the Greens for the National Broadband Network Company (NBN Co) to be subject to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Telstra eyes future dollars from customer growth
Telstra chief David Thodey has talked up the carrier's ability to win new customers as it recorded a 36 percent drop in net profit after tax for the first half of the financial year.
Source: iTnews Australia
Anti-NBN doc 'ideological dogma': Conroy
Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy has today slammed a research report released by the Economist Intelligence Unit criticising the roll-out and design of the National Broadband Network (NBN), labelling it as right-wing dogma.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Conroy welcomes Telstra-NBN agreement
The federal government has welcomed an agreement between Telstra and the NBN Co finalising key commercial terms for the rollout of the national broadband network.
Source: ARN
Progress? Telstra agrees NBN 'commercial terms'
The nation's largest telco Telstra this morning revealed it had "provisionally agreed" key commercial terms core to its agreement with NBN Co, which will see its fixed-line broadband customers and some infrastructure progressively moved into the fledgling company as the National Broadband Network is rolled out over the next decade.
Source: Delimiter
Telstra posts 1H profit down 35.6%
Telstra Corporation Ltd has reported a 35.6 per cent decline in first half net profit and confirmed its outlook for sales revenue to remain flat over financial 2011.
Source: Computerworld
Debt-laden NBN Co will go retail: Turnbull
The National Broadband Network Company (NBN Co) will be forced to begin offering some retail services in order to pay off the debt racked up in building the network, Shadow Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has predicted.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Taxpayers lead the world in funding NBN
Research has found that the Gillard government was spending more taxpayer funds to connect each household to the NBN than any other country.
Source: Australian IT
Wed, 09th Feb 2011
Redundancies hit iiNet management
Just a week after it claimed it was in pole position to take advantage of the National Broadband Network, and in the middle of "its biggest advertising campaign ever", iiNet has confirmed it recently conducted a round of redundancies that predominantly hit its head office workforce.
Source: iTWire
NBN to cost 24 times Korea's network
The National Broadband Network will cost taxpayers 24 times as much as South Korea's rollout, but deliver just one tenth the speed.
Source: Australian IT
NBN Co fights inferior image of fixed wireless services
NBN Co has been forced to defend its planned use of fixed wireless and satellite infrastructure in Tasmania after the state's new infrastructure minister appeared to infer the technologies weren't long-term solutions to broadband availability.
Source: iTnews Australia
"Fat" Internode's plan changes a "joke", claims Linton
The outspoken chief executive of broadband provider Exetel has blasted a series of plan changes by rival Internode yesterday as a "joke of an announcement", claiming the move represented "desperation" in the face of Telstra's recent attempt to win back market share in broadband.
Source: Delimiter
100Mbps NBN uptake surprising: Hackett
The take-up of 100 megabits per second services on the National Broadband Network (NBN) in Tasmania was much higher than originally expected, according to Internode managing director Simon Hackett.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Tue, 08th Feb 2011
Internode touts Power Packs for upload, shaping boost
ISP Internode has given users of its Easy Broadband plans an option of unmetered uploads and faster shaping of excess traffic with two power pack add-ons launched today.
Source: iTnews Australia
Anti-NBN junkies need to go to rehab
Like the junkie who can't quite quit their harmful habit, the haters of the NBN project just refuse to give up the object of their fervent hatred, fumbling around in the dark continuously for their next fix; the next flawed argument that might just prove once and for all that the project is a dud.
Source: Delimiter
Greens to pursue Government on NBN Co FoI exemption
Two key bills to be reintroduced to Parliament this week could result in increased pressure on the Federal Government to explain a number of decisions it has made on its National Broadband Network (NBN) in the past several months.
Source: Computerworld
Telcos scramble to restore lines
Australia's major telcos were scrambling yesterday to restore mobile and landline services to customers caught in Cyclone Yasi's path.
Source: Australian IT
NBN Co details network of spares
NBN Co plans to hold inventories of spare parts at points of interconnect and maintenance depots across its network to cut response times for its technicians to attend and repair geographic failures.
Source: iTnews Australia
Changeover to IPv6 is no time to panic
In about three months, Australia will run out of its last batch of internet addresses under the old IPv4 naming system.
Source: Australian IT
Alcatel creates tiny base stations for data surge
Alcatel-Lucent showed off technology on Monday that shrinks mobile phone base stations to barely bigger than a golf ball.
Source: iTnews Australia
Underground power better than NBN: Opposition
Putting power cables underground in cyclone prone areas would be a better investment than the National Broadband Network, the Queensland opposition says.
Source: ARN
Mon, 07th Feb 2011
Vividwireless hits 128Mpbs in first TD-LTE trials
Wireless broadband provider vividwireless this week signalled further moves away from the WiMAX network it debuted with, hitting peak speeds of 128 megabits per second (Mbps) in live trials of rival mobile technology, Time Division Duplex Long Term Evolution (TD-LTE).
Source: Computerworld
Vividwireless looks to increase coverage
Vividwireless is planning to expand its east coast mobile broadband services in the next 18 months, via either its existing WiMax technology or Time Division Duplex Long Term Evolution (TD-LTE) technology, the company revealed today.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Mobile network 'operational' in Yasi affected areas: Optus
Optus has announced it will provide assistance packages to its small business and personal customers who were hard hit by Cyclone Yasi last week.
Source: Computerworld
Telstra's fixed-line revenue broken
Telstra will this week reveal that the rot in its fixed telephony business has continued to drag down earnings.
Source: Australian IT
NBN Co to open 24x7 network surveillance centre
NBN Co plans to open a round-the-clock network surveillance operations centre in Melbourne at the end of April that will house three tiers of network support including a specialist tactical response unit.
Source: iTnews Australia
Fri, 04th Feb 2011
Photos: NBN Co network termination units
Regular Delimiter reader and all-round telco commentator Michael Wyres was at a NBN Co briefing this week and took these shots of the company’s internal and external network termination units, which will be installed in homes and businesses. Michael has kindly supplied us with the shots, but we recommend you visit his excellent blog for a fuller explanation of how everything works.
Source: Delimiter
SEA-ME-WE4 cable capacity upgraded
The SEA-ME-WE4 submarine cable connects Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Laid in 2005, the capacity of the cable has now been upgraded to 40 Gbps.
Source: iTWire
Opinion: Why no IPv6 panic among Aussie telcos?
Ever wondered why most of Australia’s telcos aren’t in a panic about the impending exhaustion of IPv4 internet addresses?
Source: iTnews Australia
Global net crackdown to shatter 'utopian' internet: expert
Egypt's internet shutdown is just the tip of the iceberg and a global net crackdown is inevitable, leading internet experts say.
Source: SMH