Internet service provider Netspace will follow competitors and start offering broadband customers a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service in the first half of 2006.
Perth-based Internet service provider Westnet will next month start offering high-speed ADSL2+ broadband services, utilising the network of SingTel subsidiary Optus.
South Australian ISP Internode announced on Monday that it is ready to start trialling a broadband service that offers upstream speeds of 2.5Mbps, which more than doubles the previous maximum of 1mbps.
Telstra today finally launched uncapped ADSL1 and ADSL2+ broadband services, more than 18 months after some competitors started offering the higher speed services.
Australia's peak communications industry body has cleared the way for the launch of broadband services several times quicker than existing ADSL (Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line) offerings.
A guy I know runs a tiling business, which as far as I can see involves his drinking lots of coffee, making lots of phone calls, and making sure that around a dozen different tilers do the actual hard work. As long as they're busy, he's making money. If he finds enough new business to keep them all going for two weeks, he can take off for Hawaii -- and still be making money.
There are times when the tone of Australia's broadband discussions makes me want to laugh, and others when it just makes me want to cry. The past week has been one of the latter, after two very different broadband-related stories made their way across my desk.
If there was ever evidence that the stoush over broadband had gotten personal, it came when Telstra's sour-grapes mentality led it to sue Helen Coonan, personally, for claimed procedural flaws in the OPEL contract.
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.
Streaker Robert Ogilvie may have learned the hard way that getting naked can be painful, but many other Australians are apparently learning the same lesson as they try to break ties with Telstra once and for all.
It may have had its share of teething pains, but medical clinic chain Medi 7 has used its VoIP and open source Asterisk PABX rollout to improve call routing and slash thousands of dollars in telecommunications costs.
Consider this scenario: DSL, ISDN, and cable aren't available. Dedicated lines are too pricey. Wireless is limited to line-of-sight. If your company needs broadband, you have another option: satellite.
NEC's business-grade broadband wholesale division, NEXTEP, is tooling up its national network to provide Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services, with a wireless offering also on the horizon.
Since last November when iiNet very loudly launched its naked DSL product, "naked" has been on everybody's lips, and it seemed like everybody was in on it. Some, however have held out. This round-up of 13 ISPs looks into who's got it, who doesn't and who wants to.
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The broadband business -- plans, peaks, and penalties -- can be confusing to say the least. We line up some of Australia's best.
Thousands of SMEs are expected to move to DSL broadband by the end of the year. ZDNet Australia examines the industry and shows how to navigate this competitive and confusing market.
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