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News (75)

• iiNet continues rural DSLAM rollout

  Internet service provider iiNet is on track to boost its market share of fixed broadband customers by installing its network infrastructure into eight new regional communities.

• iiNet starts voice network rollout

  Telco iiNet has started rolling out voice hardware known as MSANs into telephone exchanges, allowing it to supply its own fixed-line telephony services directly to customers.

• iiNet ends bush broadband hiatus

  The nation's third-largest Internet service provider has ended its protest over Telstra's wholesale ADSL prices and has started signing up customers in regional areas again.

• iiNet rejoins Telstra 'fast churn'

  Internet service provider iiNet has reversed its position that it will not participate in Telstra's "fast churn" process as part of moving their ADSL customers to their own network.

• Primus releases 6Mbps broadband offering

  Primus Telecom has today launched a new DSL broadband Internet service claimed to deliver high speed services at up to 6Mbps.

Blogs (12)

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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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  ADSL2+: A wholesale disaster for Telstra shareholders?

  A guy I know runs a tiling business, which as far as I can see involves his drinking lots of coffee, making lots of phone calls, and making sure that around a dozen different tilers do the actual hard work. As long as they're busy, he's making money. If he finds enough new business to keep them all going for two weeks, he can take off for Hawaii -- and still be making money.

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  Tasmanian Premier Bartlett talks NBN

  In today's Twisted Wire, Tasmanian Premier David Bartlett explains his vision for a broadband enabled Tasmania, that will "leapfrog every other nation on earth".

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  And the NBN winner is...

  Next week the government will announce the winning bidder for the build of the National Broadband Network. The announcement is expected when Kevin Rudd returns from the G20 in London.

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  Do we need the legislative blackmail?

  Virtually everyone in the telecommunications industry has their say in the Senate Standing Committee's public hearing into the pending legislation to split up Telstra, in this week's Twisted Wire podcast.

Features and Case Studies (10)

• Quigley's job is straightforward

  NBN Company executive chairman Mike Quigley and six other board members to be named this week have a series of straightforward "buy or build" decisions to make about Australia's fibre future.

• NEC goes for VoIP

  NEC's business-grade broadband wholesale division, NEXTEP, is tooling up its national network to provide Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services, with a wireless offering also on the horizon.

• That other broadband revolution

  While everyone was distracted by the NBN, a revolution was under way in the supply of fixed line broadband.

• 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.

• 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)

• 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.

• Broadband: Which plan is for you?

  The broadband business -- plans, peaks, and penalties -- can be confusing to say the least. We line up some of Australia's best.

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