The number of broadband services connected in Australia has passed the one million mark, according to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's (ACCC) "Snapshot of Broadband Deployment" issued today.
The number of businesses deploying DSL has almost doubled in the last year, and nine out of ten customers are happy with their ISP, according to a survey by IDC.
Australia remains the "broadband backwater" compared to other developing countries, according to IDC's newest forecast report.
The worldwide market for digital subscriber line (DSL) equipment witnessed strong growth in the second quarter of 2003, with the Asia Pacific and Latin America regions topping the charts, according to preliminary results from the research firm Gartner.
Growth in the number of Australian broadband users halted its precipitous decline in the first quarter of 2003, according to figures released in the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's Snapshot of Broadband Deployment.
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Australia's competition regulator has warned it will act to ensure technological innovations that pose a serious threat to Telstra's dominance of the telecommunications sector are not "strangled at birth".
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Modem manufacturer D-Link had been distributing one of its ADSL modems to some of Telstra's largest wholesale customers without the carrier's interoperability certification for around four months.
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