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  • Decline in broadband growth halted: ACCC

    Growth in the number of Australian broadband users halted its precipitous decline in the first quarter of 2003, according to figures released in the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's Snapshot of Broadband Deployment.

  • Broadband Connect gets another AU$20m

    The federal government has allocated an additional AU$20 million to cover a shortfall in funding for the Broadband Connect rural broadband subsidy.

  • Internode stops regional broadband rollout

    Internet service provider Internode has halted its regional broadband rollout due to an "unexpected and premature end" of the federal government's Broadband Connect Program.

  • Amcom nabs People Telecom's Perth fibre

    Western Australia-based Amcom has purchased the Perth fibre business of People Telecom, in a transaction worth some AU$6.25 million.

  • Telstraclear pulls plug on HSDPA in NZ

    Vodafone is denying claims that it was the cause of TelstraClear's decision to pull out of a planned NZ$50 million converged mobile broadband service in Tauranga.

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    Telstra's 100Mbps: The great PSTN robbery

    Many Australians are drooling at the prospect of 100Mbps broadband, but Trujillo seems to have a bigger endgame in mind. As Telstra poaches customers from the PSTN and NBN, he'll leave more poison pills than we've seen since Phar Lap.

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  • Future direction trapped in halt state

    Stephen Conroy's opus on the future direction of Australia's Digital Economy mainly curates existing success stories and government policies, and does little to demonstrate any form of roadmap to take the nation out of the Dark Ages.

  • Telco 2008: A year in review

    2008 was a cracker year for telco in Australia, with so many huge events happening that those at the beginning of the year have been drowned by the importance of those at the end.

  • 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.

  • Sony, Microsoft playing the convergence game

    Sony and Microsoft confront consumer apathy as they attempt to turn game consoles into multipurpose entertainment gadgets.

  • Improve TCP/IP: Tweak Win2K Server registry

    Windows 2000's automatic TCP/IP settings aren't always the best choices for network performance. See how you can modify a Win2K Server's registry to optimise TCP/IP.

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  • Hyper-V

    Microsoft's Hyper-V is a solid virtualisation platform that's compatible with a wide range of modern server hardware.

  • Intel drops 3G from Centrino

    Intel has confirmed that it has pulled the plug on all plans to add 3G to its Centrino notebook platform. From now on, says the chipmaker, it's WiMAX all the way.

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