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  • Telstra uncaps ADSL broadband

    Telstra today finally launched uncapped ADSL1 and ADSL2+ broadband services, more than 18 months after some competitors started offering the higher speed services.

  • Competition forces BigPond to slash prices

    BigPond will cut prices drastically from Friday for customers that sign up for a combined 24-month telephone and broadband contract.

  • BigPond doubles cable speeds

    Telstra's BigPond Internet service provider plans next month to boost its cable broadband network speeds to up to 17Mbps.

  • Telstra hits a million ADSL customers

    Telstra has clocked up one million ADSL broadband customers on its BigPond service, doubling the customer base in less than 12 months.

  • Re-encoding delays video-over-ADSL2 launch

    The need to re-encode around 16 Terabytes of content into a streamlined format has delayed Movies Online's (MO) bid to stream movies over next-generation ADSL2 services.

Blogs (5)

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    Grant Denyer loves speed

    At Telstra's launch of its ADSL2+ services, the telco trotted out celebrities left right and centre to get the press excited.

  • Read the blog post - Jo Best

    The merry second lives of Telstra

    Friends, industry watchers, readers; I come not to bag Telstra, but to praise it. The evil that telcos do often lives on after their Investors Days, while the good is often lost during interminable speeches.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Exchange students learn the taste of defeat

    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.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Apple has killed the video store; will ISPs be next?

    The Olympics are nearly over, and the Australian team deserves kudos for an excellent performance all around. Yet even as the Olympic sun sets on the Bird's Nest for the last time this weekend, millions of spectators around the world will be scanning their dials in the hope of finding something else to fill their viewing hours.

  • Read the blog post - Jo Best

    When is broadband not broadband? When it's Next G

    In telecoms, Telstra is no 800 pound gorilla. It's an 800 pound colic-ridden infant, irritably throwing its toys out of the pram when it doesn't get its own way.

Reviews (4)

  • Testing times with broadband

    Complacency by one Internet provider left them with a poor result in our tests but what if this wasn't a test?

  • Broadband: Which plan is for you?

    The broadband business -- plans, peaks, and penalties -- can be confusing to say the least. We line up some of Australia's best.

  • UPDATE: Aust ISPs in legal limbo for four months over modem

    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.

  • Telstra NetComm Turbo 7 Series Wireless Gateway

    NetComm Turbo 7 Series Wireless Gateway provides an easy set-up, good coverage and modest speed. While this system gives you the advantage of portable wireless gateway, wireless services are less reliable and cannot match ADSL2 speeds.

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