Broadband News
Fri, 11th Feb 2011
NBN will kill off fixed-line telephony
The National Broadband Network will kill off the already ailing business of fixed-line local calls that was once the cornerstone of Telstra's business.
Source: The Australian
Optus broadband plans 'misleading'
Optus was found to have engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct when it used the word "unlimited" in advertising broadband plans that slowed down users' speed once the download limit was reached.
Source: The Age
Telstra's consumer chief lures them back
Gordon Ballantyne has warned rivals that Telstra will continue to win new customers in the year ahead.
Source: Australian IT
Telstra network holds up as customer numbers soar
Telstra claims its network is coping with the recent pick-up in new customers.
Source: ARN
Thu, 10th Feb 2011
Conroy remains committed to mandatory filtering
Australia's proposed mandatory ISP filter proposal was very much alive, the Minister for Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy, Stephen Conroy said today.
Source: iTnews Australia
Senetas says NBN traffic should be encrypted
ASX listed encryption technology developer Senetas has told a parliamentary enquiry that all traffic on the National Broadband Network should be encrypted.
Source: iTWire
ISPs lukewarm on Telstra-NBN Co terms
Australia's major internet service providers (ISPs) have issued a lukewarm response to the news of Telstra and NBN Co coming to an agreement on commercial terms, months after initially envisaged and following numerous delays in negotiations.
Source: Computerworld
Conroy suggests fibre to reconnect disaster-affected customers
With the apparent increased frequency of naturally disasters, communications minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, has suggested Telstra should consider the use of fibre, rather than copper, to reconnect customers affected by Cyclone Yasi and the January floods.
Source: Computerworld
Telstra's flood costs mainly opex: Thodey
Telstra chief executive David Thodey says most of the cost to the company from the natural disasters in Queensland and elsewhere will be on operating expenses.
Source: ZDNet Australia
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