Chris Anderson, former chief executive of Optus, was presented with an accolade for "providing leadership through services to the industry" by the Service Providers Association (SPAN) last night, for his significant contribution to the "growth, competition and innovation of the Australian telecommunications industry".
Winners of this year's Australian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association (AIMIA) awards were announced in Melbourne Friday night.
The Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts has awarded two research grants for investigations into the use of broadband and 'last mile' technologies.
With an election looming, regional broadband has once again found itself at the centre of a political battle -- this time, it's the Northern Territory's turn for a war of words.
The federal government has cancelled the contract for Optus and Elders to build a WiMAX broadband network, the companies say.
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.
It has been a busy year in telecoms, whether because of the increasingly bitter relationship between Telstra and the government; the awarding of the contentious but (finally) progressive broadband contract to OPEL; the pivotal election that led to a change of government; or the move of 3G mobile technology into the mainstream at last.
Your intrepid reporter sacrifices his personal life and credibility to go deep undercover and cover the annual dinner of the Service Providers' Association, Hunter S. Thompson style.
WiMax, the controversial long range wireless broadband technology, is set to spread across rural Australia from next year -- but despite the outgoing Howard government's ambitious project, both fixed and mobile variants of the technology are already being deployed around the world.
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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.
Even in big cities it can be a heck of a lot easier to find a Big Mac than it can be to find a wireless hotspot.
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