Broadband News
Sun, 05th Sep 2010
Windsor backs Labor on broadband
In a blow to the Coalition, key independent Tony Windsor has backed Labor's $43 billion national broadband network, criticising the opposition's cheaper alternative as a "retrograde policy" that would create a digital backwater in rural Australia.
Source: The Age
Fri, 03rd Sep 2010
TransACT nets its 1000th FTTP customer
It's not exactly an NBN-scale milestone, but TransACT has connected its 1000th FTTP (fibre to the premises) customer.
Source: iTWire
Analysis: Net gambling next on ISP filter hitlist?
The Communications Law Centre (CLC) has called for a tightening of Australian laws to more effectively prohibit access to online casino-style games like poker, blackjack and roulette.
Source: iTnews Australia
Broadband not on Katter's wish-list
Rural independent MP Bob Katter has made public his 'wish-list' of issues he wants addressed by Prime Minister Julia Gillard or Opposition leader Tony Abbott before he is prepared to offer his support to either in forming a minority government - and it doesn't include broadband.
Source: iTWire
NBN key to open government: Lundy
Labor senator and technology advocate Kate Lundy has told a New Zealand conference that only high-speed broadband offered by the National Broadband Network will lead to a true open government in Australia.
Source: ZDNet Australia
AAPT shooting blanks over email
ISP AAPT has sent blank emails to customers in an attempt to advise them of the impending sale of their consumer broadband or phone account to iiNet.
Source: iTnews Australia
Telstra move worries rivals
The closure of a South Brisbane telephony exchange has Telstra's competitors fuming.
Source: Australian IT
Thu, 02nd Sep 2010
Internode flags business market push
Internet service provider, Internode has flagged its intention to increasingly target the business market, announcing the opening of a Brisbane office to dirctly service its existing and expanding customer base in the sunshine state.
Source: Computerworld
Treasury claims $900m Coalition NBN shortfall
The Coalition's promised savings from scrapping the National Broadband Network were $900 million out over four years, a Treasury analysis claimed.
Source: iTnews Australia
No one is selfless in NBN debate
One of the signatories to a national broadband proposal unveiled at the eleventh hour to rival Labor's own long-running NBN project has accused vendors and telcos of stirring up hype for a fibre-optic cable future in line with a view to serving their own interests in generating massive contracts and gaining operating certainty.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Treasury costings scant on NBN details
You might have expected that the Treasury's costings of the two major party's election policies - released to the Independents and the media late yesterday - would contain a fair amount of detail about how much each party's wildly differing broadband policy would cost.
Source: ARN
Wed, 01st Sep 2010
If NBN 3.0 can promise "up to 100Mbps" by wireless why can't NBN Co?
We now have two new acronyms in the every growing lexicon of telecommunications - NBN 3.0 and AAB, the Alliance for Affordable Broadband - along with the promise of near FTTH performance from wireless networks: all from a 'gang of seven' CEOs who, with two exceptions, are exclusively providers of wireless communications services.
Source: iTWire
Telstra overhauls Torres Strait broadband
Telstra has embarked on a $5.3 million project to improve broadband services for islands in the Torres Strait region of far northern Queensland.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Business leaders call for NBN
A group of telecommunications executives yesterday made an 11th-hour plea to independent MPs over the National Broadband Network.
Source: Australian IT
Analysts explains why some telcos don't want an NBN
Analysts have provided lukewarm responses to an open letter from senior telco executives that criticises the Government's National Broadband Network.
Source: ARN
Telcos back coalition-style NBN, slam Labor
A new telecommunications lobby group laden with telco chiefs has trashed the $43 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) and backed a privately-run wireless network worth some $3 billion that is reminiscent of coalition policy which it dubbed NBN 3.0.
Source: ZDNet Australia
NBN3 Wireless plan needs 4G spectrum fast-track
A wireless National Broadband Network proposal aired late yesterday called for the expedited release of 4G spectrum by regulators as well as access to Telstra backhaul and mobile towers to cut out further costs.
Source: iTnews Australia
Telcos lob broadband grenade: Abbott may be right
An alliance of large telcos has lobbed a last-minute grenade into talks around who will form the next government by proposing a new broadband plan that appears more aligned with the Coalition's policy than Labor's national broadband network.
Source: SMH
Tue, 31st Aug 2010
Rebel yell: NBN 3.0 is a much better idea
A splinter group of rebel telecommunications players have broken with their Australian brethren's long-standing support for Labor's National Broadband Network policy, publishing their own NBN 3.0 model in an apparent attempt to influence the independent members of parliament who may decide the next Federal Government.
Source: ARN
Gillard cautions against "savage" NBN cuts
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has argued that the national broadband network should not be cut or savaged "just when it's making a real difference".
Source: iTnews Australia
20 things to do with a big, fast Internet plan: Listen to Internet radio
Digital radio might offer access to a few dozen stations, but internet radio over broadband brings the world to your doorstep.
Source: PC Authority
Vividwireless goes social, open source to attract uni students
University students will form the target demographic of vividwireless' push into the Sydney and Melbourne market as it ramps up the national rollout of its WiMAX network.
Source: Computerworld
Broadband ranks low in Kennedy
Bob Katter won't find a single paragraph devoted to broadband in a briefing prepared by two local government officials.
Source: Australian IT
NBN top priority for Wilkie
Key independent Andrew Wilkie has named completion of Tasmania's National Broadband Network in a list of requirements to win his support.
Source: Australian IT
Mon, 30th Aug 2010
NBN to survive but not intact: Budde
The National Broadband Network appeared likely to survive a fierce debate over its immediate future but would not escape unscathed, said telecommunications analyst Paul Budde.
Source: iTnews Australia
Internode unveils FetchTV trial
National broadband provider Internode will follow its larger rivals Telstra and iiNet into the brave new world of online entertainment, revealing plans tonight to kick off an internet television trial in late September.
Source: Delimiter
Nationals blast Labor's NBN project
Nationals leader Warren Truss has blasted Labor's National Broadband Network project as increasing signs continue to build that the clutch of independent MPs who will decide the next Federal Government are highly concerned about telecommunications and broadband as an issue.
Source: Delimiter
Telstra unveils "unlimited" wireless broadband for business
Telstra was targeting business buyers with a familiar consumer strategy by revealing an "unlimited" wireless broadband deal today for fleet purchasers of its new Ultimate USB modems.
Source: iTnews Australia
Tassie NBN makes Wilkie wish list
Tasmanian Independent MP Andrew Wilkie has placed the completion of the roll-out of the National Broadband Network (NBN) in Tasmania as one of his top priorities, in a list delivered ahead of meetings with both Labor Leader Julia Gillard and Liberal Leader Tony Abbott this week.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Exetel chief: Ageing Australia doesn't want 1Gbps
The fiery chief executive of internet service provider Exetel has opened fire on the National Broadband Network's support for 1Gbps speeds, saying those excited by the higher speeds are "unthinking and just plain stupid", with wireless broadband waiting in the wings.
Source: ARN