Mobile carrier Vodafone Australia has handed out massive seven-year outsourcing deals to Nokia for network construction and IBM for application development and maintenance.
Despite burgeoning competition in the Australian enterprise telecommunications market, Optus's Business division today claimed it was the only credible alternative to former monopoly supplier Telstra.
The countdown has begun. In less than two months, up to 1700 high-level IT business and government representatives from every corner of the globe will congregate in the usually quiet city of Adelaide, capital of South Australia for the World IT Congress.
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Graeme Samuel took Telstra to task this week for not switching on high-speed ADSL2+ broadband nationwide.
There were more than 3.6 million broadband connections in Australia as of 30 September last year, a report by the nation's competition regulator revealed on Friday.
Australia's competition regulator has warned it will act to ensure technological innovations that pose a serious threat to Telstra's dominance of the telecommunications sector are not "strangled at birth".
Voice over IP has reached some major milestones in 2008 in both the enterprise and consumer ends of the market but how long can traditional telcos continue to fight against this disruptive technology?
In this CIO Vision Series interview, Wybrow explains how he fosters a culture of innovation against a backdrop of IT consolidation and outsourcing across Vodafone's mobile communications empire and 4,000-strong global IT workforce.
Is this a marriage made in heaven? The federal government and shareholders at Australia's largest carrier certainly hope so.
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