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  • First upgrade on Southern Cross Cable complete

    The first stage of an upgrade of the submarine Southern Cross Cable linking New Zealand and Australia to the United States has added 260Gbps.

  • State Internet body slams broadband price frenzy

    Protests over Telstra's new broadband deals continued as the Western Australian Internet Association (WAIA) expressed their outrage, saying Telstra has delivered a "devastating blow" to competition in the Internet industry.

  • Broadband site scrutinises Aussie offerings

    Australian dial-up Internet users looking to plunge into a faster ADSL or cable service are now equipped to make a better informed decision, following the launch of a site that compares the offerings of all Net service providers in the local broadband arena.

  • Ringing in a new telecoms era

    Five years after competition was introduced into the Australian telecommunications sector, ZDNet Australia talks to the major players about the harsh realities of the new telecoms world.

  • Pipe dreams of high-speed Australia-NZ cable link

    New Zealanders may soon score a new high-speed cable link to Sydney boasting 240Gbps international capacity, after Pipe Networks announced today it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Kiwi telco Kordia.

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    Give me a ship, and a trading scheme to steer her by

    Watching the latest, hilarious stage in the Jimmy Kimmel-Matt Damon "feud" -- which racked up 2.5 million YouTube views in one day -- I was struck by a thought: who in the world is paying for all this bandwidth?

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Is cable the answer to our broadband woes?

    Somewhere along the line, it became assumed that xDSL technologies -- which run over the last-mile of wiring so tightly controlled by Telstra -- were the only way forward for Australian broadband.

  • Is cable the answer to Australian broadband woes?

    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.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Broadband shame: Sneakernet strikes back

    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.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Too little, too late, for the local loop?

    The news this week that Canberra-based TransACT was going to start rolling out fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) services it announced in May, was at first intriguing.

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    Getting broadband to everyone in Australia should be a major concern for businesses and government.

  • Guide to VoIP in Australia

    Making phone calls over the Internet isn't just for the tech savvy anymore. Using Voice over Internet Protocol is easier than ever before, with several services out there that can help drastically reduce your phone bill.

  • Aust broadband: bottom of the ladder

    Thirty or so years since the birth of the Internet, we seem to be at a technological standstill when it comes to access speeds and bandwidth. If it is meant to be a superhighway, why does it feel like a back road?

  • Photos: Telstra's undersea fibre optic cable

    Installing cables can be difficult especially if they're 9,000 kilometres long and up several kilometres underwater. Our photo gallery gives you a look inside the 'Ile de Sein', a ship used to lay Telstra's latest fibre optic cable, which will become part of Australia's global Internet network backbone.

  • Australian naked DSL mega-roundup

    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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    For the beige retail PC industry, there is a dark side to the idea of a PC as a whitegoods purchase.

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    Samsung's D500 was voted the best mobile handset of 2005 by the GSM association. Can the upgraded D600 outdo it in 2006?

  • HP iPAQ h6515

    Can the addition of GPS on HP's latest PDA-phone inject some much-needed oomph back into the dwindling PDA market?

  • Guide to VoIP in Australia

    Making phone calls over the Internet isn't just for the tech savvy anymore. Using Voice over Internet Protocol is easier than ever before, with several services out there that can help drastically reduce your phone bill.

  • Samsung D500

    Samsung's latest slider phone, the D500, looks a lot like its sliding predecessor, but comes in a black case with a megapixel camera and an MP3 player.

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