Delays in securing local council approvals have pushed back the planned launch of a trial of a new fibre to the home (FTTH) service in Tasmania by almost four months.
Acquisitions and mergers by the industry's US powerbrokers continued at pace throughout 2006, but locally, offshoring and fibre-optic broadband networks provided the biggest talking points.
Telstra today confirmed the fibre to the node (FTTN) component of its Next Generation Network (NGN) would remain on hold after the government opted not to intervene to allow the carrier to restrict third-party access to its planned new infrastructure.
The nation's second-largest telco today said it will fight "until the last breath" Telstra's desire to lock competitors out of using its planned fibre-optic broadband network.
Key players in Australia's telecommunications industry have staked out their ground in a heavyweight industry conference today, with the government and Telstra backing the current telecomms regime and SingTel Optus crying foul.
What many of us may have forgotten is that there is already a perfectly acceptable technology for delivering triple-play services voice, TV and data over a single cable and doing it cost-effectively and at high volume.
Sprint's WiMAX roll-out in Baltimore will prove the Australian government's decision to worm its way out of the Opel WiMAX contract was a short-sighted, and ultimately damaging, political stunt that has benefited nobody.
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