ZDNet Australia journalist Renai LeMay weighs in with his 2007 predictions for the local telecommunications industry.
A wireless enterprise software provider says it has complained to Australia's competition watchdog over a group of service providers who allegedly route short-message service traffic via lower-cost foreign operators and mask the practice by using "falsely assigned" local numbers.
Optus today rolled out its first Australian third generation (3G) site in the national capital, ahead of similar launches of its high speed wireless service in Sydney and Melbourne by the end of the year.
The chase for Cable & Wireless Optus's mobile business has turned ugly, with Vodafone telling Australia's anti-monopolies watchdog that SingTel would be unable to feed the 'capital appetite' of a full service.
Australia’s five biggest mobile carriers and key regulatory bodies will attend an emergency meeting this afternoon to discuss number porting glitches encountered late yesterday.
As Christmas roars in upon us and the Rudds, Trujillos, and Conroys of the world hang their Christmas stockings, everybody is casting an eye to 2008 and the changes it will bring.
With all the excitement over the iPhone, few people have noticed that 1 July was the 11th anniversary of the deregulation of Australia's telecommunications market.
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.
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