Broadband News
Mon, 28th Sep 2009
Internode cuts 3G modem prices
Internode has cut $50 from the price of its range of 3G modems for use with its a NodeMobile Data wireless broadband service and has introduced an antenna to boost reception.
Source: iTWire
AFACT calls Carson in copyright case
The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft has confirmed Ferrier Hodgson IT forensics executive Nigel Carson as its expert witness in the court case against ISP iiNet.
Source: iTnews Australia
Telstra takes ADSL2+ to 88 percent of Tasmanians
Telstra says it has upgraded its 100th telephone exchange in Tasmania, in Richmond, to ADSL2+, extending ADSL2+ coverage to 88 percent of Tasmanian homes and businesses.
Source: iTWire
NBN brings up fixed broadband figures
Australia was expected to gain five places in fixed line broadband penetration globally by 2013 with Gartner predicting a 14 percent rise in the number of households connected in that time.
Source: iTnews Australia
Telstra shareholders demand break-up vote
Telstra's big shareholders have again gone on the attack over federal government plans to break up the telco, warning such actions may go against the company's constitution.
Source: ZDNet Australia
All eyes on NBN
The sheer scale of the national broadband network (NBN)project has drawn interest from foreign governments including the US, where President Barack Obama has outlined similar plans.
Source: Australian IT
Operational NBN model to be ready within two months
Researchers and vendors will be able to test their applications and equipment on a fully operational model of the National Broadband Network within two months.
Source: Computerworld
Sun, 27th Sep 2009
Australia embarks on great broadband adventure
From snowy mountains and sun-baked deserts to the steamy tropical north, Australia has begun wiring its vast expanse with a high-tech broadband network in a giant project being closely followed abroad.
Source: SMH
Sat, 26th Sep 2009
Broadband plan smacks of the 1950s
The government's move to force Telstra, its infrastructure and its all-important customers into the $43 billion -- give or take $10-$20bn -- National Broadband Network has "focused" debate on precisely, if not quite the wrong questions, the smaller ones.
Source: The Australian
Fri, 25th Sep 2009
Sydney-wide iPhone test: which carrier has best speed and coverage?
Four networks, 150 locations and one sprawling city - Sydney's most thorough testing of iPhone carriers reveals the winners and sinners for speed and coverage.
Source: APC Magazine
ISPs cozy up to Federal Court
The association that represented the interests of internet service providers sought to model itself as a disinterested party advising the Federal Court deciding whether iiNet aided illicit downloads of copyright material as alleged by the film industry.
Source: iTnews Australia
The NBN spells the end of the ISP as we know it
The ISP has one foot in the grave. Or at least once the Federal Government's National Broadband Network (NBN is rolled out, the term Internet Service Provider (ISP) may become an endangered species, according to the director of the recently-established Institute for a Broadband Enabled Society (IBES).
Source: ARN
Photos: Digging Tasmania's National Broadband Network trench
Engineers from French and Australian joint venture Marais-Lucas Technology have begun cutting up a thin trench across the Tasmanian landscape north of Hobart for the first fibre cable of the National Broadband Network to be laid.
Source: iTnews Australia
AFACT raises concern over unlimited ISP plans
The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft has voiced concerns that AAPT's unlimited off-peak broadband plans could promote illegal movie downloads.
Source: iTnews Australia
Thu, 24th Sep 2009
Exetel hunts for staff
ISP Exetel has earmarked the recruitment of 36 staff in Australia over the next year, most of which are corporate sales and sales engineering support roles.
Source: iTnews Australia
NBN construction rolls on in Tassie
Work has officially commenced on the Cambridge to Midway Point section of the National Broadband Network (NBN) in Tasmania, with the first cables being laid in five-year-old foundations.
Source: Computerworld
Tassie starts work on Cambridge NBN link
The Tasmanian National Broadband Network Company has started work on constructing the Midway Point fibre link in the state.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Film industry links ISP's best customers with piracy
The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft has claimed that there is a link between ISP iiNet upgrading the service plans of heavy-internet users and the proliferation of film piracy, according to documents filed with the Federal Court.
Source: iTnews Australia
Telstra instos condemn Canberra's 'draconian impositions'
Large institutional shareholders have written to the chairman of Telstra, Catherine Livingstone, condemning the government's plans for the effective "appropriation" of Telstra's assets and requesting a meeting as soon as possible to discuss the threat to the company's future.
Source: Australian IT
Truth a victim in Telstra war
In war the first casualty is truth. And it is no less so in the Federal Government's assault on Telstra.
Source: SMH
Wed, 23rd Sep 2009
ISP filtering trial company confident it will silence the critics
Enex Testlabs is confident the findings of its report on the Federal Government’s controversial ISP filtering scheme will silence the trial’s critics.
Source: ARN
Review: iiNet BoB wireless modem
iiNet customers who yearn for a simple networking life will do well out of BoB, although like most routers, it's not without its quirks.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Huawei, Alcatel win Singapore NBN work
Huawei and Alcatel-Lucent have been selected to manage and provide the "active infrastructure" for the country's planned next-generation national broadband network (NBN).
Source: ZDNet Australia
Major shareholders rebel over Telstra
A group of Telstra's biggest institutional shareholders has called on the board to explain the "draconian nature" of the federal government's proposed Telstra legislation and reminded directors of their fiduciary responsibility to investors.
Source: Australian IT
iiNet on watch for acquisitions
Internet service provider iiNet is looking for acquisitions to quickly boost its size.
Source: Australian IT
Blacklists should be given to vendors, not ISPs
The testing company that conducted the Federal Government's controversial ISP filtering trial claims any blacklists should be kept away from ISPs.
Source: ARN
Tue, 22nd Sep 2009
Blog: Is Conroy backpedalling on separation mandate?
Now that Minister Stephen Conroy has played his hand regarding Telstra's separation, the hard part begins.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Internode talks up PPC-1 after packet test
Internode has successfully conducted end-to-end packet flow tests between Australia and the US using Pipe's PPC-1, Australia's latest international fibre-optic link.
Source: iTnews Australia
NSW students tear through 40TB a month
Armed with Government-funded netbooks and unlimited access to the internet, students at New South Wales public schools are tearing through 40TB of downloads a month and heading fast for 100TB territory.
Source: iTnews Australia
Pipe's Guam cable carries first packets
Last month, Pipe Network's PPC-1 cable from Sydney to Guam carried its first light. This time, tests run with early customer, Internode, has seen the cable carry its first data packets.
Source: ZDNet Australia