• Curran calls for NZ release of ACTA talks

    New Zealand Labour MP, Clare Curran has today called on the NZ Government to reveal the text of their "secret discussion" with South Korea on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).

    04 December 2009 05:00 PM

  • Legit Mininova gives no traffic relief

    Mininova's decision to remove links to copyright-protected media last week is being hailed as a victory by Dutch anti-piracy group Stichting Brein. However it's unlikely to make much difference to network traffic and could prove a boon for independent producers

    04 December 2009 05:52 PM

  • Nextgen to roll-out new backhaul pricing

    Over the coming weeks Nextgen boss Phil Sykes will be touting a new pricing regime for regional backhaul, which the telecoms industry hopes will undercut Telstra's pricing.

    04 December 2009 05:38 PM

  • Police to use national warning system

    A national telephone warning system designed to send emergency bushfire alerts could be expanded to warn of mass shootings and major police incidents.

    04 December 2009 04:39 PM

  • Nextgen wins $250m regional backbone deal

    Leighton subsidiary Nextgen Networks has pipped Optus for the $250 million deal to roll-out 6000 kilometres of backbone links to regional Australia.

    04 December 2009 01:34 PM

  • 3Com appoints new local head

    Network equipment maker 3Com has appointed Angela Hughes as its new country manager, replacing Grant Howe.

    04 December 2009 12:10 PM

Why should the tax payer fund your broadband connection if you choose to live in the middle of nowhere? You can get your porn slower, as far as I'm concerned. Thank goodness we have Tony Abbott scrutinising this wasteful spending by KRudd.

From: Abbott: NBN plans crazier than Whitlam

Read it here, then discuss it in Talkback.

  • Tide rising on Tasmanian NBN

    Tasmania's builder of the National Broadband Network, Aurora Energy, yesterday said it would factor in rising sea levels in its assessment of where to lay fibre along the state's coastline.

    04 December 2009 11:22 AM

  • Salmat appoint new CIO

    Customer communications outsourcing firm Salmat has appointed former Babcock and Brown CIO David Hackshall as its chief information officer, filling the vacancy left when Aaron Panozza resigned in May 2009.

    03 December 2009 05:46 PM

  • ACCC backtracks on Telstra ULLS pricing

    In the face of industry-wide criticism, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has reverted to its old pricing schedule and released a discussion paper on how it should value Telstra's network in the future.

    03 December 2009 05:53 PM

  • Bradfield may test Optus' Fletcher

    It was supposed to be a cake walk for Paul Fletcher, but the former Optus executive's ascension as MP for Bradfield has become less certain in recent days.

    03 December 2009 04:45 PM

  • Telstra's lightning iPhone offer

    The nation's largest telco, Telstra, has unveiled a new iPhone plan which will see new customers getting a $100 account credit when they purchase a new plan.

    03 December 2009 05:05 PM

  • Vodafone loses NZ court appeal

    Vodafone has lost a New Zealand Court of Appeal case about the way regulator the Commerce Commission works out the costs of providing local residential telephone services to non-commercial customers.

    02 December 2009 04:31 PM

  • Amcom: NBN speeds irrelevant to business

    Amcom managing director Clive Stein said today that he wasn't concerned about competition from the National Broadband Network (NBN) because 100Mbps was too slow for many of his customers.

    02 December 2009 03:17 PM

  • Telstra wins $62.5m AGL deal

    Telstra today revealed it had won a five-year, $62.5 million deal to provide utility AGL with telecommunications services, including the migration to a new managed IP data network which will increase capacity between AGL's sites.

    02 December 2009 12:09 PM

  • Abbott: NBN plans crazier than Whitlam

    In his maiden speech yesterday, new leader of the opposition Tony Abbott panned the Labor Government for its National Broadband Network, stating: "Not even Gough Whitlam would be as crazy as that."

    02 December 2009 01:10 PM

  • Telstra to sell SouFun stake

    Telstra yesterday said it would sell down its 51 per cent shareholding in Chinese real estate website company SouFun as part of that company's initial public offer (IPO) next year.

    02 December 2009 10:41 AM

  • Optus chief: Telstra split not communist

    The government's plan to split Telstra is not communist, says Optus chief Paul O'Sullivan, because Telstra is not a normal company.

    01 December 2009 04:13 PM

  • Minchin coy on shadow ministry

    Although Senator Nick Minchin is said to have enjoyed the shadow communications role, he hasn't indicated that he would ask to have the position back.

    01 December 2009 03:49 PM

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