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The ACCC's vision of Australia's next-generation of broadband is designed to keep its rival G9 in the race to build a fibre-to-the node (FTTN) network and will sentence the country to a low speed future, according to Telstra.
People Telecom has signed a new AU$200 million supply agreement with Telstra for its national fixed wired and broadband services.
Telecoms industry body the Communications Alliance has called on the government to support a lighter regulatory touch for broadband.
The federal government has moved to improve the effectiveness of broadband statistical reporting in Australia, issuing a directive to regulators to report on business takeup and usage.
Telstra today reiterated its long-standing argument that it will not invest in its planned high-speed national fibre network unless it can be guaranteed commercial returns on the project.
Post-election adrenaline surging through his veins, one of the first acts performed by new Communications Minister Stephen Conroy was to disband the expert panel that his predecessor Helen Coonan had appointed last June to evaluate tenders for fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) construction.
Last week, a family friend rang for some technical help. "Telstra sold me this wireless Internet service and they promised it would work both at my home and at my office," he said. Said home is in the Melbourne CBD, and said office is in Kyneton, a lovely town about an hour away from Melbourne.
Australia's peak Internet industry body has upped the ante against unsolicited bulk e-mail senders, a move sparked by lawsuits against spammers in the United States.
Communications minister Daryl Williams and his political foe Kate Lundy debate on a wide range of issues, including three most pressing problems facing Australia's ICT industry.
Customers and government bodies should focus on products with open standards and realise the pitfalls of open source, argues Scott Petty, Dimension Data Australia COO.
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