Broadband News
Tue, 22nd Sep 2009
Internode tests Pipe's sub cable, promises early customer benefits
Internode has become the first customer to test Pipe Networks' new PPC-1 fibre-optic cable, ahead of its official launch and is promising to revise its access plans to reflect PPC-1's lower connection costs to the US.
Source: iTWire
NBN Co in talks on purchase
Canberra broadband and pay-TV provider TransACT is likely to sell assets into the federal government's national broadband network.
Source: Australian IT
Telstra to finish cable repair
Telstra will today make the final repairs to the copper cables damaged in a construction mishap six days ago that left thousands of customers without phone or mobile services for almost a week.
Source: Australian IT
Mon, 21st Sep 2009
Internode datacentre suffers outage
A storm has caused an outage at Internode's Adelaide datacentre, which affected services in South Australia.
Source: ARN
Tasmania completes NBN design
Aurora Energy has gone to market for equipment to link up the fibre cables to be used for Tasmania's leg of the National Broadband Network.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Minchin claims Conroy and Tanner at odds over Telstra break-up
Shadow communications minister Nick Minchin claims that communications minister Stephen Conroy and finance minister Lindsay Tanner are at odds over the government's determination to wrest the HFC network and Foxtel stake from Telstra's grip, but the rules are set out in black and white in the bills now before parliament. Or are they...
Source: iTWire
Analysts: NBN Co the winner from any Telstra split
While the initial shock of Senator Conroy's plan to corner Telstra into accepting structural separation was met with outrage from Telstra shareholders, there is a growing field of analysts that see the legislation working in Telstra's favour.
Source: iTnews Australia
NBN: Australia's $43 billion iPhone
The National Broadband Network will provide an iPhone-like boom in online applications and services when complete, Federal Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, has said.
Source: Computerworld
Telstra to roll out set-top box
Telstra is believed to be planning to launch a personal video recorder and set-top box, likely to be called the T-box, as early as December, in a bid to shift the entertainment, news and sport content it offers under the BigPond brand from people's computers to their televisions.
Source: Australian IT
Crossed lines on Telstra in ministers' mix-up
Federal government ministers yesterday contradicted each other over whether Telstra would be forced to sell its stake in Foxtel as part of the plan to break up the telco and bring more competition to telecommunications.
Source: Australian IT
Sue Trujillo
The story of how Telstra lost its network is one of hubris and bungling, of misreading the play in Australia by men from the US who thought they knew everything already. Shareholders should never forget this.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Tanner's 75pc off broadband
The cost to taxpayers of the government's new high-speed broadband network could be just a quarter of the initial $43billion estimated price tag, Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner says.
Source: Australian IT
Sun, 20th Sep 2009
Telstra pay TV role 'dreadful': minister
Key cabinet ministers have given differing views on Telstra's ownership of Foxtel, as the government prepares to carve up the telco giant.
Source: The Age
Welcome to the brave new world
What a week for Telstra shareholders. One minute they were proudly milking monopoly profits from their national copper wire network, next they found out that the same people who had sold them this monopoly at up to double the current share price were going to rip it away from them. What meanness!
Source: SMH
Sat, 19th Sep 2009
Alcatel-Lucent unveils converged backbone
Networking firm Alcatel-Lucent has developed a converged IP optical backbone designed to help service providers cope with accelerating demand for network capacity.
Source: iTnews Australia
yARN: Leave Telstra alone
As the Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, launched into his morning press conference announcing the Government’s move to divide Telstra by force, voices of celebration rose up across the land.
Source: ARN
Fri, 18th Sep 2009
Telstra: Gotta keep 'em separated
ZDNet.com.au takes to the streets to see what opinions the public has to voice regarding the Telstra separation.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Consult with NBN users: Deloitte
The federal government needs to engage with consumers and the business community about how they plan to use its $43billion national broadband network if the ambitious project to ever succeed, advisory firm Deloitte says.
Source: Australian IT
Telstra behind broadband network: Livingstone
Telstra is still firmly behind the federal government's push for a national broadband network (NBN), according to the telco's chairwoman, Catherine Livingstone.
Source: Australian IT
For what the NBN will mean tomorrow, look are AARNet today
Australia's academic and research network today provides bandwidths well in excess of what the NBN will deliver, and cutting edge applications that exploit that bandwidth. CEO, Chris Hancock says they provide a foretaste of what the NBN will deliver to consumers and other users a few years down the track.
Source: iTWire
Telstra's monopoly meant mediocrity for consumers
Sol Trujillo was the George W. Bush of telecommunications. For both, the American way was the only way. Being the biggest meant you did not have to do diplomacy, and both were better at starting wars than finishing them. Both used patronage and punishment to ensure a like-minded leadership group that made worse decisions more harmoniously.
Source: SMH
Thu, 17th Sep 2009
Samuel hails new pricing powers
Competition watchdog Graeme Samuel yesterday hailed as a telecommunications revolution the strengthened powers that would enable him to impose pricing settlements on Telstra, ending two decades of "repetitive strain injury" litigation pursued by the company.
Source: Australian IT
Telstra confirms support for NBN
Telstra is still firmly behind the federal government's push for a national broadband network (NBN), the telco's chairwoman Catherine Livingstone says.
Source: The Age
ISPs refuse to join TERRiA
The revived TERRiA telco consortium’s recruitment plans may be stifled as several Internet service providers (ISPs) have refused to join the group.
Source: ARN
Greens attack Conroy on P2P filtering
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy had "shifted the goalposts" in the debate on the internet filtering of peer to peer traffic, Greens senator Scott Ludlam has claimed.
Source: iTWire
Blog: Special edition Telstra break-up podcast
In a massive "special edition" of our telco podcast Twisted Wire, we talk to virtually everyone in the telecommunications industry about the break-up of Telstra, including man of the moment, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Bligh gets cooking on NBN
The core ingredients of Queensland's bid to host the national broadband network (NBN) headquarters are secret but "very, very attractive", says Celebrity MasterChef and state premier Anna Bligh.
Source: Australian IT
France passes revised three-strikes rule
The French legislature has passed into law a revised version of the controversial so-called Hadopi 'three strikes' law targeting illegal online peer-to-peer file swappers.
Source: iTnews Australia
IIA releases draft eSecurity for ISPs
The Internet Industry Association (IIA) has released a draft eSecurity code to help internet service providers (ISPs) to improve security for their customers.
Source: Computerworld
Cable cuts cause panic in CBD
Telstra's overreaction to the severing of fibre-optic cables in the city today created panic among businesses and residents in the CBD who were told they would be without their phone, internet or mobile for up to a week.
Source: SMH