The pressure on Telstra's broadband business has ratcheted up a notch, with Sydney wireless provider Unwired today launching new 'high-speed Internet' plans targeting dial-up users and slashing its current broadband plan prices.
There were more than 3.6 million broadband connections in Australia as of 30 September last year, a report by the nation's competition regulator revealed on Friday.
Business-focused Internet service provider Pacific Internet is evaluating wholesale partner options as it gears up for the launch of high-speed ADSL2+ services.
BigPond will cut prices drastically from Friday for customers that sign up for a combined 24-month telephone and broadband contract.
Much has been made of Telstra's decision to finally stop holding Australia to ransom, and to actually turn on the ADSL2+ equipment it has installed in what is apparently over 900 of its exchanges around the country.
We've all experienced that irritating feeling upon walking into a nearly empty restaurant, only to see little 'reserved' signs on the empty tables, and to be told by the matre d' that no tables are available even as other people enter and are escorted to their tables.
With the OPEL bid cancelled and procedural questions dogging the FTTN bid, Australia is currently in something of a technological limbo.
At Telstra's launch of its ADSL2+ services, the telco trotted out celebrities left right and centre to get the press excited.
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.
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.
It is very interesting that when Telstra lodged its "proposal" for the national broadband network three weeks ago, chief executive Sol Trujillo was nowhere to be seen, but now that it has been ruled out, Trujillo is doing the briefings.
When the government announced that Optus and Elders had won the bid to build Australia's bush broadband network, it provoked jeers and plaudits alike, but it was the ISPs' choice of WiMax as the bearer technology that has provoked the most furious storm of argument. Just how will the technology stand up to life in the bush?
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