Telstra's plans to switch on ADSL2+ across 900 exchanges throughout the country may have a substantial destabilising effect on the communications market, and alter the national carriers relationship with government and regulators, according to a report.
Whatever strategy Telstra announced during the strategic review of its operations last week was always going to be controversial.
New Zealand is to get a new mobile phone provider, with the announcement today of an agreement between Telecom New Zealand and TelstraClear.
After years of friction, the federal government is finally seeing eye-to-eye with the states, and has given its support for jamming mobile phones in prisons.
One company claims to have beaten the government's AU$1 billion WiMax network to the punch with the first commercial launch of a wireless broadband network based on the same technology.
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