The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy has issued a tender for the provision of substantial legal assistance ahead of the rollout of the national fibre-to-the-node network, but it may have a hard time finding a taker.
Events this week highlighted the differing relationships which telcos have with the nation's former monopoly carrier.
Telstra has served Optus with a notice from its legal department this morning questioning the rival telco's ability to provide adequate service for the 3G iPhone, in a calculated move to disrupt the rival telco's 3G iPhone launch.
Australia's competition regulator late yesterday denied an application by Telstra to stop supplying Optus fixed line services within the SingTel subsidiary's cable network footprint.
The nation's number two telco Optus today said it might consider compensating some businesses for the loss of mobile, landline and internet services yesterday.
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Bill Murray's weeks spent in the purgatory of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania -- depicted in the amusing movie Groundhog Day -- have become a cultural sounding point, mentioned in passing to describe a situation where someone is stuck in the same painful, unresolvable situation day after day.
Banner adverts for Dell and Optus were appearing on the Pirate Bay Web site earlier this week -- until ZDNet Australia published a story revealing the fact.
Last week, a family friend rang for some technical help. "Telstra sold me this wireless Internet service and they promised it would work both at my home and at my office," he said. Said home is in the Melbourne CBD, and said office is in Kyneton, a lovely town about an hour away from Melbourne.
Apple Computer today launched its long-awaited iTunes Music Store in Australia, finally giving iPod owners a legal way of downloading music online. Extra: A peek at other Web stores.
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Approximately 98 percent of respondents strongly welcome anti-outsourcing legislation, an IT Manager Australia survey revealed.
ZDNet Australia takes a long hard look at the top tech stories of 2002, a year characterised by corporate collapses, broadband proliferation and slow recovery.
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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.
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