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News (14)

• Coonan's 'equal opportunity' broadband

  The details of a scheme that promises the most far-flung Aussies a chance to get the same broadband as their city-dwelling cousins have been unveiled

• Australia now in broadband speed top ten

  According to new research from the OECD, Australia is ranked within the top ten countries for average advertised broadband speeds.

• Telstra switches on ADSL for 200 new communities

  Telstra will switch on over 200 remote ADSL exchanges after a funding stoush between the government and the telco was resolved.

• Labor calls in ACCC over 'fraudulent' WiMax maps

  Labor will seek clarification from the regulator over the government's announcements on WiMax, accusing the Coalition of trying to defraud voters over the capabilities of the technology.

• No porn filter can stop porn entirely: Govt

  Following the news a teenage boy has cracked the government's filtering software in half an hour, the Communications Minister has warned parents to be vigilant about their children's exploits online whether they use filters or not.

Blogs (5)

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  Conroy's Six: Can FTTN's gatekeepers deliver?

  Post-election adrenaline surging through his veins, one of the first acts performed by new Communications Minister Stephen Conroy was to disband the expert panel that his predecessor Helen Coonan had appointed last June to evaluate tenders for fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) construction.

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  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.

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  When is broadband not broadband? When it's Next G

  In telecoms, Telstra is no 800 pound gorilla. It's an 800 pound colic-ridden infant, irritably throwing its toys out of the pram when it doesn't get its own way.

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  DCITA: Too many policies, too few policies?

  If someone gave you AU$93.5 million to spend, would you forget it? I wouldn't either. But this is exactly what seems to have happened in the aftermath of the 2007/8 federal budget, which was widely lambasted by many observers -- including yours truly -- for its lack of funding for meaningful ICT related initiatives.

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  Australia Connected ... a political football?

  The government's Australia Connected program, it appears, is no longer an altruistic and long-overdue investment in Australia's infrastructure, but a political football whose primary purpose seems to be to send a massive "nyah-nyah" to the Labor party.

Features and Case Studies (1)

• The rights and wrongs of WiMax

  When the government announced that Optus and Elders had won the bid to build Australia's bush broadband network, it provoked jeers and plaudits alike, but it was the ISPs' choice of WiMax as the bearer technology that has provoked the most furious storm of argument. Just how will the technology stand up to life in the bush?

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