Broadband News
Fri, 03rd Dec 2010
Business bullish on NBN outlook
Australian businesses have high hopes for the government's National Broadband Network, a survey of more than 500 enterprises has found.
Source: Australian IT
Thu, 02nd Dec 2010
NBN Co, 'tell us the price'
So far the government and the National Broadband Network Company (NBN Co) have called for our support for a scheme that is scant on detail.
Source: ZDNet Australia
IPv4 blocks to run out by end of year
There are now only seven blocks of IPv4 addresses left in the global pool, and five are already allocated.
Source: PC Authority
Vodafone users rage at ongoing 3G woes
Vodafone Hutchison Australia's 3G network continues to struggle under the weight of its customers despite it having claimed that a software fix would resolve issues at the end of last month.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Sector demands clarity on NBN costs
Property industry lobby groups are calling for clarity over how much developers will pay for broadband infrastructure on greenfield sites.
Source: Australian IT
Wed, 01st Dec 2010
Exetel signs NTT bandwidth deal
ISP Exetel has signed a deal with NTT Communications to boost its international bandwidth capacity into Asia and beyond.
Source: iTnews Australia
Telehealth to be trialled over NBN in Armidale & Kiama
Communications minister, senator Stephen Conroy has announced plans for telehealth trials over the NBN in Armidale and Kiama, starting early in 2011.
Source: iTWire
Internode scales 3G data plans to 18GB
ISP Internode has substantially bumped up its 3G data plans which it underpinned by boosting the capacity of its interconnections with the Optus network.
Source: iTnews Australia
LTE to soar but HSPA still rules mobile broadband
The new super fast mobile broadband technology LTE (long term evolution) is tipped to take-off worldwide in 2012 but the existing 3G standard HSPA will continue to dominate for many years to come, according to new research.
Source: iTWire
On the ground with the NBN rollout: Part 2 - Kiama
From the top of Kiama the view is of trees, fields and hills that sweep long into the horizon, broken up by homes with manicured lawns and a deep blue ocean in the distance. Underground lies some of the hardest rock known to man. It built much of Sydney, surviving generations of erosion, and fights the NBN at every turn, street by street. But as NBN Co churns its way through stuff that makes concrete feel like butter, ARN went behind the scenes to find out why a blue-ribbon Liberal seat has one of the highest sign-up rates in Australia.
Source: ARN
Will Victoria's Coalition Govt back NBN opt-out?
Victoria's Coalition Government-Elect has given tantalising signs that its support for the National Broadband Network rollout in the state will not be as complete as that of its Labor predecessor.
Source: Delimiter
ISPs sign up to voluntary anti-zombie code
Some 18 Australian ISPs, serving over 80 percent of internet users, have signed on to a new voluntary code of practice to limit the problem of "zombied" computers being run by internet users.
Source: iTnews Australia
TPG boosts earnings guidance above $215m
TPG Telecom (ASX:TPM) Ltd has upgraded its full year earnings guidance to a range of $215-225 million after a good start to the financial year.
Source: Computerworld
Baillieu airs conditional NBN support
Newly-elected Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu has pledged his tentative support for the Federal Government's National Broadband Network (NBN) roll-out, providing that mobile service providers offer beefed-up coverage to regional Victoria.
Source: ZDNet Australia
NBN first release sites to trial telehealth
Two of the first mainland release sites under the National Broadband Network (NBN) will receive telehealth monitoring units in coming months, as part of a $4 million trial conducted by NSW Health.
Source: Computerworld
Tue, 30th Nov 2010
Telstra split no big deal: Howard
Former Prime Minister John Howard, the man who oversaw the privatisation of Telstra in the late 1990s, has claimed that the passing of legislation ensuring the company's structural separation isn't big reform.
Source: ZDNet Australia
4G to cover more than 4 billion people by 2015
More than 60 per cent of the world's population will have access to some form of 4G mobile broadband technology by 2015, according to a new report from ABI Research.
Source: ARN
Mobile broadband plans confusing: poll
Another from the 'dog bites man' department: most consumers don't know how much mobile broadband data they need, and many are paying for bigger allowances than they need.
Source: iTWire
Telstra Wholesale extends Point Cook fibre trial
Telstra has extended its open access fibre-to-the-home trial in Point Cook by seven months, according to one of the ISPs reselling services on the network.
Source: iTnews Australia
4G advances make NBN an uphill battle
Our major telcos seem further down the 4G route than previously thought and this could and should have major implications for our government-led broadband roll-outs.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Mobile internet is already dominant, survey says
The people behind the Opera mobile Web browser have released the results of their State of the Mobile Web survey, which questioned 300,000 users in July and August this year. It makes for fascinating reading.
Source: Computerworld
Xenophon to vote against NBN bill
South Australia Independent, Nick Xenophon, has vowed to vote against a National Broadband Network (NBN) legislation introduced into parliament last week.
Source: ARN
Whirlpool attackers escape charge
The perpetrators behind the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against broadband website Whirlpool have been let off the hook as a "sign of good will".
Source: ZDNet Australia
One in two customers in dispute with telcos
Telecommunications companies and ISPs are in the firing line again with new research showing that one in two customers has faced a problem with their phone or internet service provider in the last year.
Source: iTnews Australia
Mon, 29th Nov 2010
PM hails NBN passage as historic
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has hailed as historic the passage of legislation to structurally separate Telstra.
Source: ARN
Vividwireless tests LTE for future migration
A war between competing fast wireless broadband technologies will begin within days over Sydney skies as telco Vividwireless kicks-off what it says will be the first trial of its kind in Australia.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Xenophon demands uniform NBN pricing
It's only been a matter of days since independent Senator Nick Xenophon forced the Federal Government into a corner over one piece of legislation pertaining to the National Broadband Network; now he's flagged plans to do it again.
Source: Delimiter
Turnbull attempts to change Telstra split bill
Opposition communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull has made a last-ditch attempt to put the Coalition's stamp on the Telstra split bill by pushing a fresh round of changes that – if agreed to - would delay its passing this year.
Source: iTnews Australia
NBN cherry-picker laws introduced
The Government has introduced draft laws that, if passed, will force carriers that build new or upgrade existing fibre networks to provide an open access, wholesale service to internet retailers.
Source: iTnews Australia
Labor downplays critical report on NBN
The federal government has downplayed an international study which claims the benefits of the national broadband network (NBN) have been grossly overstated.
Source: ARN