Access to some Asian Web sites continues to be erratic for Optus broadband customers more than a week after major earthquakes damaged undersea cables off the coast of Taiwan.
The Office of the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) released figures yesterday on the number of complaints about telecommunications providers -- with some undesired results for ISPs.
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Competition in Australia's Internet ADSL market is heating up just weeks after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission announced plans that will make it easier for service providers to get access to Telstra's copper network.
A good merger always gets the pulse racing -- and Seven's takeover of Unwired could be shaping up to be one of the most interesting for a while.
The inference that Soul, AAPT and TransACT were Dead Telcos Walking long before their withdrawals were announced makes me wonder whether Terria has always been, God help us all, just as flimsy a proposition as Telstra has made it out to be.
Internode has no incentive to provide free access to its Wi-Fi networks for any reason at all, apart from genuine love, and maybe the joy of finding a new way to flip Telstra the bird.
If there's fibre running to the node down my street by the end of 2009, I'll eat my own shoes with mustard sauce.
Labor's policy of socialised broadband has certainly proved much harder than the party believed it would be back when it was in Opposition, but it is Telstra that stands to lose the most from the NBN - and that applies whether it loses the NBN contract or wins it.
Australia's first pure wireless Internet service provider launched its commercial broadband Internet service in Sydney today, claiming full independence from Telstra-owned telephony infrastructure.
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As the year is waking up from its NYE celebrations, rubbing its eyes and reaching for the Berocca, the moment has come to return to that fine tradition of predicting what the next 12 months hold in store.
Australia still has way to go before it can meet its full potential with wireless and broadband.
The Internet is in the process of taking over our lives, so if you aren't connected, maybe it is time you were.
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.
iBurst is a superb wireless broadband solution that's highly useful for the mobile business user, but users who don't require portability will likely find its price to be a deal breaker.
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