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• Telstra calls for Telstra-funded telco judge

  Telstra has called for an independent telecommunications adjudicator with the power to make binding price and access decisions, but also wants an independent evaluation of its copper network settled before regulatory reform proceeds.

• Asia-Pac retrenchments hit BT

  Multinational telco British Telecom has confirmed it is retrenching a small number of staff as it redistributes its Asia-Pacific headcount to bulk up in high-growth markets such as India, China and Malaysia.

• BT shuffles Asia-Pac staff

  Multinational telco British Telecom has started redistributing its headcount around the Asia-Pacific region as it bulks up in high-growth markets such as India and China.

• Lord of the Rings calls mobile users

  The forthcoming release of JRR Tolkien's classic will be the first major release to be promoted using wireless technology.

• Big telecos ready to make ASP splash

  The early days of the application services business have been about new companies establishing a new idea, much as the dot-com retailers did for the whole Internet commerce thing.

Blogs (3)

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  The Swedes are doing it, so why can't we?

  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.

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  What's not in a name?

  The dullest observation you can possibly make about information technology is that it should be designed to serve the needs of the business, rather than the technology experts.

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  Helen Coonan's fact hunt

  In the broadband war, it seems, everyone has an opinion and those with a vested interest are playing fast and loose with the truth.

Features and Case Studies (7)

• British Airways CIO: the interview

  British Airways chief information officer Paul Coby can justifiably claim more than most of his peers to have had a tough time coping with the economic slowdown and cuts in IT budgets.

• Vodafone's Paul Donovan is the man

  commentary: It is not a foregone conclusion that the successor to outgoing Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo will be internally sourced.

• Net neutrality is an 'American problem'

  The leaders of three of Australia's largest ISP's have declared the Net neutrality debate as solely a US problem and further, that the nation that pioneered the internet might want to study the Australian market for clues as to how to solve the dilemma.

• BT bets on open development

  BT, long considered a risk-taker in the telecommunications market, has laid a US$105 million bet to open its network to application developers in the hopes of creating innovative voice services. But will other phone companies take a similar gamble?

• Conroy charts national broadband agenda

  The Australian Labor Party's ICT shadow minister wants a national fibre broadband network and enough skilled people to exploit it.

Reviews (2)

• Warchalking marks the Wi-Fi 'hot spots'

  A new fad is taking the Internet community by storm: chalking runes on pavements and walls to indicate the presence of a wireless networking node.

• What's next for wireless

  The frequency is changing from wired working to a wireless world. Can this new wave of technology help you gain the cutting edge?

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