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.
The federal government has allocated an additional AU$20 million to cover a shortfall in funding for the Broadband Connect rural broadband subsidy.
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.
Western Australia-based Amcom has purchased the Perth fibre business of People Telecom, in a transaction worth some AU$6.25 million.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If providers don't pitch in against the threat, customers might defect -- and the health of the Net itself could suffer.
Sony and Microsoft confront consumer apathy as they attempt to turn game consoles into multipurpose entertainment gadgets.
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Microsoft's Hyper-V is a solid virtualisation platform that's compatible with a wide range of modern server hardware.
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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