Ericsson is bringing to Australia a bundle of products and services that may provide carriers and would-be carriers with an economical way of delivering broadband services including telephony, video and high-speed Internet into the home via optical fibre.
The South Australian government has gone to market for a telecommunications carrier to fill Adelaide's ADSL black spots until the $4.7 billion national fibre-to-the-node broadband network (NBN) gets underway.
A NZ$350 million five-year funding boost to speed the roll out of faster broadband is among a package of infrastructure measures announced in today's New Zealand budget.
Aurora Energy has decided to withdraw from a three-year-old broadband-over-powerline experiment as a result of cost pressures.
A decision on who will build a high-speed broadband network in capital cities and large regional centres will not be made before the federal election.
For no particular reason that I can discern, a 1979 Kenny Rogers song popped into my head as I was considering the ever more complex morass that is the national broadband network tender which Senator Stephen Conroy defended in his CeBIT keynote speech.
With the OPEL bid cancelled and procedural questions dogging the FTTN bid, Australia is currently in something of a technological limbo.
I have never been to Sweden. In fact, I have no real, hard evidence that Sweden really exists as anything more than a collective, Utopian vision where things just work, and life is better.
Will Internode's (sudden) and dramatic price hike for its broadband plans undo the G9's plans for an affordable, high-speed broadband network?
If there ever were concrete evidence that Labor is blowing smoke up the proverbials of the Australian population, it came earlier this month as Senator Stephen Conroy, the man charged with promoting Labor's fibre-everywhere policy while simultaneously taking potshots at his counterpart Senator Helen Coonan, put his foot squarely in his mouth.
At the "NECXT life" product showcase in Sydney, NEC gave us the chance to explore a "day in the a life of NEC". Our photo gallery reveals that such a day involves digital signs, VoIP, LCDs, waterproof notebooks and CCTV.
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.
Wireless broadband users in Australia could enjoy maximum surfing speeds of 75 megabits per second by mid-2006, analysts say.
What technology can blast data up to seven times faster and a thousand times further than Wi-Fi?
A key electronics industry group has approved a significant standard for wireless broadband specifications known as "WiMax," giving a boost to a technology proclaimed as a breakthrough for cheap high-speed Internet access.
While the speed and pricing plans make it appealing for those who aren't deskbound, Unwired's Wireless Card is cruelled by the lack of true mobility and the Sydney-only coverage, which itself is undeniably patchy.
It's not exactly cheap, but if you want wireless broadband on the go -- and critically, if you live in the right bits of the correct cities -- then it's your best current choice.
Christmas is rapidly approaching. What do you get the Sys Admin who has everything? Reviews news has this week's new products for your perusal.
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.
After 13 years of proprietary products and ineffective standards, the networking industry has finally decided to back one set of standards for wireless networking: the 802.11 series from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). These emerging standards define wireless Ethernet, or wireless LAN (WLAN).
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