Australia's third-largest internet service provider iiNet today said it had signed up more than 30,000 local customers to its naked DSL service and more than 80,000 to its internet telephony offering.
Elders this week announced it would make 80 per cent of its telecommunications staff redundant as it closed its internet service provider division.
ASX-listed ISP iiNet is to buy fellow West Australian service provider Westnet for AU$81 million in cash.
With legislation obliging telcos to share their network infrastructure details passed by the House of Representatives last night, it has been revealed that the government may compensate carriers for sharing their intellectual property.
Broadcaster Seven has secured over 90 percent ownership of WiMAX spectrum holder Unwired, and will now proceed to compulsorily acquire the remaining shares in the company.
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.
It wasn't too long ago that vendors still made a lot of their money through equipment markups. Telcos were the same, with comfortable profit on ISDN, STD calls, calls to mobiles and other heavily used services padding out financial reports.
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Tim Harvey, CIO of Hilton Hotels, tells of technologies that will turn hotel rooms into "homes away from home".
Microsoft is set to announce that it has purchased a small Internet calling start-up called Teleo, as part of a move to expand the capabilities of MSN Messenger.
New technology gains legitimacy when it solves real business problems, but becomes indispensable when it offers to take that business in completely new directions. Such has been the case at Maroochy Shire Council, where a quite conventional thin-client rollout is now facilitating new ways of working for employees in the office and on the road.
Telstra is determined to create new sources of revenue by investing in new IP infrastructure and building managed offerings around the integration of infrastructure and services. This means turning the company into a new kind of business -- with major implications for the whole economy.
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