Broadband News
Thu, 11th Feb 2010
Anonymous blasts Government sites for second day
Hackers continued to bombard the Australian Parliament House website with traffic for a second straight day as part of Operation Titstorm.
Source: iTnews Australia
Federal Government builds secret database to fight cyber-terrorism
Australia's biggest banks, telcos, and utilities have handed sensitive data to government for the protection of critical infrastructure (CI) against terrorism and natural disasters.
Source: Computerworld
Telstra speaks to Google about rolling out fibre-to-the-home
Telstra today said it had spoken to Google management about its rollout of gigabit fibre-to-the-home in the US which was announced overnight.
Source: APC Magazine
Wed, 10th Feb 2010
80% of Aussies support filter
A survey commissioned by the ABC's Hungry Beast, has found that 80 per cent of respondents supported Labor's proposed filter.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Roadshow Films gave $500k to political parties
Roadshow Films, one of the film studios that brought a copyright case against ISP iiNet, donated almost $500,000 to Australian political parties in the lead up to filing its case.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Vividwireless reveals five-city expansion plans
Vividwireless will create metro extension networks in five capital cities within 12 months of its Perth "4G" wireless broadband network in March.
Source: iTnews Australia
NBNCo's Quigley unphased by Opposition's NBN policy void
National Broadband Network (NBN) chief Mike Quigley has kept mum on whether a change in Federal Government could signal trouble for the $43 billion initiative.
Source: Computerworld
Stokes: Seven must adapt to illegal content sharing
Seven Network director Ryan Stokes has admitted that the television network is lost as to how to stop the proliferation of its content - both local and licensed - via peer-to-peer networks and YouTube.
Source: iTnews Australia
Operation Titstorm: hackers bring down government websites
Hackers connected with the anti-Scientology group Anonymous this morning launched a broad attack on government websites.
Source: SMH
Telstra NBN deal closer: Future Fund chief
Telstra's biggest shareholder is confident the company and the government are moving closer to a deal on NBN.
Source: Australian IT
Optus asset sale put on hold
Optus has put plans to sell its cable broadband network to the national broadband network on ice after reporting another solid profit .
Source: Australian IT
Tue, 09th Feb 2010
Optus won't reprimand pirating users
Optus director of government and corporate affairs Maha Krishnapillai said today that although it planned to work with other internet service providers and the government on preventing internet piracy, it did not believe in sending alleged infringement notices to users.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Google cold on voluntary YouTube filtering
Google Australia could not give the Government an assurance it would voluntarily remove all refused classification content from YouTube, its policy head said today.
Source: iTnews Australia
Optus cable to hit 100Mbit/s by mid-2010
The nation's number two telco Optus today said it was on schedule to upgrade the speed of its HFC cable network in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane to 100Mbps by mid-2010.
Source: APC Magazine
ISPs still buying ADSL kit
Australian internet service providers are increasing their purchases of ADSL equipment, according to Ericsson, despite the potential for the construction of the National Broadband Network to make such investments irrelevant in the long term.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Exetel drops infringement policy after iiNet win
ISP Exetel had modified its policy for privacy infringement processes in the wake of Justice Cowdroy's landmark ruling in favour of iiNet last Thursday in the Federal Court.
Source: iTnews Australia
Rudd non-committal on copyright law change chances
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has shied away from committing to legislative change to copyright enforcement in the wake of the AFACT v iiNet decision at the Federal Court of Australia last week.
Source: Computerworld
iiNet ruling casts cloud on web media
The Federal Court's decision last week not to hold Perth-based internet service provider iiNet liable for peer-to-peer online copyright infringement has created uncertainty for providers of legal internet movie and TV services.
Source: Australian IT
Mon, 08th Feb 2010
Conroy meets with Google for YouTube filtering
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy had entered discussions with Google to block access to video content that was not technically feasible to filter at the ISP level.
Source: iTnews Australia
TIO website hit by malware
The website of the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) has suffered a malware attack that caused it to be taken offline today.
Source: iTnews Australia
NBN Co hunt for test sites, NOC and data centre
NBN Co is finalising the selection of several "first release sites" across Australia where it will validate its network design in areas it believes replicate the challenges it will experience nationwide.
Source: iTnews Australia
iiNet: The whys and what nows
Last week the Federal Court ruled that internet service providers are not responsible for copyright violation by their customers. This is an important decision not just for iiNet, which spent around $4 million defending the case, but for all ISPs in Australia and, indeed, globally.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Speculation grows on Seven's 4G push
Kerry Stokes is best known for his media interests, a sizeable collection that spans newspapers, radio, magazines, online as well as pay and free-to-air television.
Source: Australian IT
Industry: Conroy's urge for piracy code of conduct is premature
Broadband Minister, Senator Stephen Conroy's calls for the ISP and movie industry to formulate a bilateral code of conduct does not address the root cause of copyright disputes, according to industry watchers.
Source: ARN
Fee cuts to boost networks' revenues
Stephen Conroy has slashed licence fees in a deal ahead of the spectrum sale.
Source: Australian IT
Internet TV braces for Australian push
In the US it's often referred to as "over-the-top TV", but in Australia, it lurches along with the humble handle of internet protocol TV.
Source: Australian IT
ACCC trying to regulate the NBN, and much more, warns Telstra
Telstra has warned that rule changes proposed by the ACCC to 'declared' data transmission services could effectively extend regulation to "NBN Co's proposed new bitstream ethernet services...wholesale DSL, broadband cable Internet, IP-VPN, and VPLS services in the access network." Most of Telstra's competitors disagree.
Source: iTWire
INTERVIEW: Michael Malone still excited, after 16 years
We spoke to Michael Malone shortly after the iiNet court victory.
Source: APC Magazine
Will the AFACT v iiNet case help reduce the rate of online piracy?
A Federal Court judge last week through out a high-profile copyright infringement case against ISP, iiNet, brought by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT).
Source: Computerworld
Sat, 06th Feb 2010
Australian Democrats calls for radical overhaul of Internet legislation
The Australian Democrats says the current legislative framework for the Internet and related industries is "ill-fitting and ill-serving making it difficult and prohibitive for the Australian Industry to operate with certainty." The party is proposing a radical overhaul.
Source: iTWire