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  • Australia getting more broadband for its buck

    Australian broadband users are getting more out of their Internet connections although prices have remained static, a report from the Internet Industry Association (IIA) has found.

  • Telstra inks global roaming deal with iPass

    Telstra inked a three year deal with iPass that will allow the telco to offer its customers single sign-on access to their corporate networks using any of iPass's numerous global ISP partners.

  • Aust broadband company hits back at download attack

    PlanetMirror co-founder Jason Andrades has hit back at criticisms from the broadband community its new premium download service is overpriced, but does concede the market for the product is "difficult and evolutionary".

  • 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.

  • $200m cable "will not bring down broadband prices"

    Experts have warned broadband prices may not be on their way down, despite the opening of a AU$200 million cable link.

Blogs (12)

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    12 days without ADSL: A local loop eulogy

    When your broadband speeds are limited to 38Kbps it's not hard to join the ranks of people demanding the NBN already. Telstra's copper network is a renovator's delight.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    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

    Will the NBN kill digital TV as we know it?

    As the NBN bypasses the airwaves and offers a new pipe into 90 per cent of Australia's homes, could long-languishing IPTV services spell the beginning of the end for TV as we know it?

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    NBN: Like giving candy to babies

    I have seen the NBN, and it looks a lot like Christina Aguilera. Or, at least, it looked like her when I dropped into Ericsson's Melbourne headquarters recently to see a live demo of their NBN solutions. Yet behind the streaming TV, one question lingers -- and not even the government seems able to answer it.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Just how fast is fast, anyway?

    There's something immensely gratifying about accomplishing the seemingly impossible -- particularly in IT, where pundits regularly proclaim that a particular technology has hit its physical limits.

Features and Case Studies (26)

  • 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.

  • Wireless ISP launches Australian service

    Australia's first pure wireless Internet service provider launched its commercial broadband Internet service in Sydney today, claiming full independence from Telstra-owned telephony infrastructure.

  • ISPs versus the zombies

    If providers don't pitch in against the threat, customers might defect -- and the health of the Net itself could suffer.

  • Testing regional broadband

    Regional areas are finally getiing a break on broadband services, but how do you measure the quality of service?

  • Australia a step closer to WiMAX

    Wireless broadband users in Australia could enjoy maximum surfing speeds of 75 megabits per second by mid-2006, analysts say.

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Reviews (28)

  • Is broadband right for you? Here are nine signs that it isn't

    Recently I asked how many of you still use a telephone line to connect to the Internet. The result? Plenty of you still use the good old standby, the dial-up modem. That wasn't really a surprise, although from what you read in magazines and on Web sites you'd think everyone already had a broadband connection.

  • Tech Guide: Wireless network purchases

    Here's what you need to know about wireless networking, from the standards and technologies to the best products for your home or office.

  • Telstra CDMA 1xRTT Communication Card

    Telstra's wireless CDMA 1x network is for Australian road warriors who don't mind paying big bucks for maximum mobility.

  • NetComm NCT240

    NetComm have offered a small scale DSLAM designed for hotels, serviced apartments or serviced offices. We found it to be a very robust device which is easy to deploy and manage.

  • Testing times with broadband

    Complacency by one Internet provider left them with a poor result in our tests but what if this wasn't a test?

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