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  • Adam plucks first SA WiMax apple

    South Australian internet service provider, Adam Internet, has turned on its first WiMax tower, an effort its chieftain Scott Hicks described as a "minor miracle".

  • Data#3 wins NBN office IT roll-out

    Diversified ICT products and services group Data#3 has won a fistful of contracts to design, deploy and manage the National Broadband Network Company's corporate IT infrastructure.

  • Conroy's broadband forum to cost $500k

    A conference to be held at the University of New South Wales on the future of fast broadband will cost taxpayers $528,000.

  • Govt reveals Dec broadband forum

    The Federal Government today revealed it had organised what it described as a "major forum" on the future of Australia's digital economy in the wake of the construction of the National Broadband Network.

  • Survey debunks broadband productivity gains

    A NZ government-funded survey has raised questions about the productivity gains to be made from providing fast internet access.

  • iiNet continues rural DSLAM rollout

    Internet service provider iiNet is on track to boost its market share of fixed broadband customers by installing its network infrastructure into eight new regional communities.

  • Exetel boss bets against NBN and Quigley

    Boss of internet service provider Exetel, John Linton, says the National Broadband Network should be handed to the only company that can build it — Telstra — and he's not impressed by NBN Co chief Mike Quigley.

  • Senate Select finds Tassie is in the dark

    Next month the Senate Select Committee on the NBN will table its final report. It will reflect the views of 100 or so submitted documents and a series of public hearings.

  • TelstraClear earmarks $20m exchange spend

    TelstraClear is spending around $NZ25 million putting its own equipment into telephone exchanges.

  • Telstra: broadband price cuts "imminent"

    Telstra has flagged price reductions for its broadband products and services as it fights to maintain market share in the highly competitive sector.

Features and Case Studies

  • iiTrial: AFACT v iiNet timeline

    The court case between internet service provider iiNet and a number of movie studios represented by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) is grabbing attention as the pair war about who's responsible for Australians downloading pirated content on the internet. This interactive timeline presents a complete history of the trial.

  • Broadband Superguide

    This Broadband Superguide consolidates a massive selection of features, blogs, case studies, news stories and whitepapers to provide everything you need to know about broadband.

  • Telstra out of Conroy's filtering trial

    Telstra has decided not to participate in the government's controversial ISP filtering trial, for which expressions of interest were due today.

  • NBN bid roundup: Who's in, who's out

    Tomorrow marks the due date for proposals to build the government's $4.7 billion national broadband network, and speculation is mounting on how many bids the government will receive, as Telstra continues to vacillate on whether it will be part of the race. ZDNet.com.au has done a call around to see where the bidders stand.

Reviews

  • Samsung NC10

    The NC10 betters previous Samsung netbooks with a built-in HSDPA SIM card reader and the portability this provides. Optus wireless broadband bundles seem like excellent value.

  • Optus E1762 USB Modem

    The hardware performs its part of the equation just fine, but if you're considering Optus' wireless broadband make sure you take advantage of its seven-day trial period.

  • Linksys WRT160N Wireless-N broadband router

    The Linksys WRT160N Wireless-N broadband router has consistent performance, good range, a helpful software application, and a good set of networking features. Its lack of gigabit and USB support are the only major knocks against it.

Photo Gallery

  • Photos: Inside Telstra's nodes

    Telstra today gave some insight into the logistics of what needs to be done in order to build a national broadband network over the next five years — we also had a peek into one of the company's nodes.

Blogs

  • Has New Zealand's smiling assassin delivered?

    One year into its tenure, how has the new New Zealand Government performed on issues of technology and telecommunications?

  • A battery of opinions on the value of data

    As the National Broadband Network pricing debate continues, we should consider which is the most appropriate model for costing a bit that costs virtually nothing to carry.

  • NBN should be free, says economist

    Why the National Broadband Network should be free, and other stories from another day of the Senate Select Committee on the Rudd Government's telco infrastructure baby.

  • Senate broadband hearing - NBN at what cost?

    Debate over the National Broadband Network is heating up. Is it economic? Do we want to avoid two major networks? What will be built? How will it be funded?

  • All about separation, or all about copper?

    Labor's fibre-to-the-premises NBN was meant to be an act of freedom, a breaking-free from 100 years of copper infrastructure legacy and the start of something new. So why in the world are we still discussing Telstra's copper network?

  • Land of the long white cloud computing

    Cloud Computing not for New Zealand?

  • Ash Wednesday for Telstra's shareholders

    Shareholders got a rude awakening this week as Stephen Conroy made good on industry calls to break up Telstra. Some argue the government has been duplicitous and should be held to account, but those who sit tight may find the new Telstra offers a far better value proposition with better long-term opportunities.

  • NBN: Like giving candy to babies

    I have seen the NBN, and it looks a lot like Christina Aguilera. Or, at least, it looked like her when I dropped into Ericsson's Melbourne headquarters recently to see a live demo of their NBN solutions. Yet behind the streaming TV, one question lingers -- and not even the government seems able to answer it.

  • Telstra's last-mile strategy: Broadband limbo

    Should Telstra be investing in a pre-emptive defence against the NBN? Or should it go slow and wait like everybody else?

  • Doug Campbell on the task ahead

    In this week's Twisted Wire podcast, Tasmanian NBN chair Doug Campbell talks about the roll-out of the National Broadband Network in that state, as well as its economic viability and the path ahead.

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