Broadband News
Wed, 15th Jul 2009
Telstra nabs Conroy's $4.7bn NBN man
Telstra has hired Tim Watts, a former senior policy advisor to Minister for Communications Stephen Conroy, who was a key player behind Labor's initial $4.7 billion National Broadband Network proposal.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Aussies download 81m gigabytes in a month
Businesses downloaded more than twice as much data over their broadband connections in December 2008 than for the same month in the previous year, according to analyst Paul Budde.
Source: iTnews Australia
Tue, 14th Jul 2009
Telstra's sea cable lifeline
Telstra and its fellow shareholders in Australia Japan Cable (AJC) have rescued the international internet submarine cable operator from a tricky financial situation.
Source: Australian IT
Telstra to upgrade inter-city links
Telstra plans to upgrade the capacity of its Sydney to Melbourne inter-city link to deal with growing internet traffic.
Source: iTnews Australia
Conroy to unveil digital economy plans
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy is releasing his vaunted Future Directions for the Digital Economy paper tonight at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Qantas censors anti-censorship ad
Qantas has put the kybosh on online activist group GetUp's latest anti-censorship campaign, refusing to run the "Censordyne" ad on its flights.
Source: SMH
What direction for Australia's digital economy?
Communications minister Stephen Conroy has released a report on the Future Directions of Australia's Digital Economy, following a consultation paper issued in December. While it is full of good information, it is far from clear exactly what it is meant to achieve.
Source: iTWire
Blog: The Tasmanian devil's in the detail
This week, Stephen Conroy showed with great certainty that the NBN remains a touch-and-go affair with no clear timeline, a relatively questionable lack of governance, and lots of unresolved mysteries.
Source: ZDNet Australia
ACCC readies phone-tapping powers
Australia's competition watchdog will soon be given powers to tap Australians' phones.
Source: iTnews Australia
Mon, 13th Jul 2009
National broadband will usher in a reshaped industry
The federal government has brought forward plans to overhaul Australia's media laws to accommodate its $43 billion plan to give 90 per cent of the population access to high-speed broadband.
Source: The Australian
Broadband madness: how to waste $43bn
There is no business sense in the national broadband network.
Source: The Age
Big calls on broadband have to be seen to tick all the boxes
Politics must not drive decisions on staff, roll-outs and headquarters.
Source: The Age
Thodey hails $146m Catholic NBN
Telstra chief David Thodey today announced a $146 million broadband network project to connect over 1550 Catholic Australian schools.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Conroy launches re-jigged cyber safety site
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has re-launched its Cybersmart web site, with the emphasis shifting to providing school teachers with tools to protect children using internet technologies in the classroom.
Source: iTnews Australia
Space station pilots 'interplanetary internet'
A new networking technology called Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) could give astronauts direct Internet access within a year.
Source: iTnews Australia
Conroy named Internet Villain of the Year
Stephen Conroy's mandatory internet filtering plans have earned him the title of Internet Villain of the Year at the 11th annual Internet Industry Awards.
Source: SMH
Pipe Networks to pitch Tas Basslink backup
Pipe Networks, builders of the PPC-1 cable between Sydney and Guam, will pitch access to its Sydney to New Zealand PPC-2 cable to a Tasmanian infrastructure company.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Sat, 11th Jul 2009
A few alternatives to ISP-level content filtering
The Federal Government's proposed Internet content filter plans have incited furore among the Australian public.
Source: ARN
Fri, 10th Jul 2009
Twists and turns to leave broadband team flying blind
The telecommunications industry is abuzz with speculation about who might be on the board of the $43 billion national broadband network which is expected to be announced over the next few weeks.
Source: The Australian
Anti-fibre activist tells businesses to foot NBN
An opponent of the Government spending $43 billion on a fibre-to-the-premise national broadband network said the private sector should foot most of the bill.
Source: iTnews Australia
NBN team flying blind
The telecommunications industry is abuzz with speculation about who might be on the board of the national broadband network.
Source: Australian IT
Conroy: NBN to bring 100s of TV channels to Australia
Communications Minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, has predicted the national broadband network (NBN) will bring hundreds of TV channels to Australia and flagged a consequential need for radical change in the media sector's regulatory framework.
Source: ARN
ISP's speeds almost dead as dodo, customers say
Dodo's broadband network performance and customer service woes have plumbed new lows, with the ISP's customers reporting cripplingly slow browsing speeds for the past two weeks.
Source: SMH
Thu, 09th Jul 2009
Filter trial report in September: Conroy
A report on the first round of internet filter trials is still up to eight weeks away due to the staggered approval of ISPs, said Communications Minister Stephen Conroy.
Source: iTnews Australia
Net filtering a $33m waste: child groups
Child rights groups have come out in force to criticise the Rudd Labor government's controversial plan to censor the internet.
Source: Australian IT
Bad planning will delay NBN, Huawei warns
The government's plan to construct a national broadband network could face lengthy delays unless hardware providers are able to guarantee supply chain integrity.
Source: Australian IT
Internode trying hard to make broadband easy
Cheap, easy and a large chunk of data allocation is what most people want from broadband and Adelaide-based ISP Internode has come up with a new product that it thinks will tick all the boxes. So what makes Internode Easy Broadband different from what's already out there?
Source: iTWire
FTTH on the rise at ADSL expense globally
The next two years will see a rapid increase in FTTH broadband across Western countries and the big loser will be ADSL. This is the forecast of a leading global telecommunications analyst.
Source: iTWire
Broadband penetration set to hit half a billion
The growth of broadband internet connections is set to top more than 500 million by next year, according to researchers.
Source: iTnews Australia
Country Energy adds NBN to smart grid thinking
Country Energy has foreshadowed a significant body of work ahead between the electricity sector and the Government to work through overlaps between smart grids and the national broadband network.
Source: iTnews Australia