Thousands of SMEs are expected to move to DSL broadband by the end of the year. ZDNet Australia examines the industry and shows how to navigate this competitive and confusing market.
There are now almost three million broadband connections in Australia, including two million ADSL connections.
There were more than 3.6 million broadband connections in Australia as of 30 September last year, a report by the nation's competition regulator revealed on Friday.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has moved to take partial credit for a surge in digital subscriber line (DSL) take-up which has seen the technology poised to surpass cable as the pre-eminent broadband medium
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) technologies are rapidly overtaking cable as the broadband connection of choice, industry figures have confirmed.
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.
The Australian Labor Party's ICT shadow minister wants a national fibre broadband network and enough skilled people to exploit it.
Is Australia leading or lagging in the broadband stakes? Well, it depends on who you ask.
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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