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• Telstra: ACCC is fighting to keep G9 in fibre race

  The ACCC's vision of Australia's next-generation of broadband is designed to keep its rival G9 in the race to build a fibre-to-the node (FTTN) network and will sentence the country to a low speed future, according to Telstra.

• Tech threats to Telstra can't be "strangled at birth": ACCC

  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".

• Wireless to the max

  The emerging broadband wireless standard WiMax will address some of the problems with current technology and take wireless to a whole new level.

• Aust movie download costs could hit AU$117

  Want to watch David Arquette fleeing from mutated spiders in Eight Legged Freaks on the Internet? The experience could cost you AU$117 if you're not careful, telecommunications research organisation Telsyte claims.

• Cost-effective broadband for Australian SMEs

  VPNs are being touted as the way to affordable broadband in Australia, but many services, such as online gaming and streaming media, aren't currently utilised due to the high cost of bandwidth.

Blogs (4)

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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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  For Boyle's sake, an indecent proposal for ISPs

  It's been 345 years since physicist Robert Boyle published the experimental results confirming what is now known as Boyle's Law, which to paraphrase is: a gas will spread out to fill any available space.

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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.

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  Seven vividly proves WiMax not dead yet

  It wasn't too long ago that critics of WiMax wireless technology were declaring it dead at the starting gate.

Features and Case Studies (11)

• Tech threats to Telstra can't be "strangled at birth": ACCC

  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".

• Taking out the trash

  If mainstream media cannot be trusted to provide an objective, poison-free analysis of the issues of the day, then it is the responsibility of this government specifically, my department to come to the citizenry's rescue.

• Cartoon: Terria's flesh wound

  Telstra's Now We Are Talking resident cartoonist Mikko lampoons Terria's rapidly declining list of members.

• 10 ways the credit crunch will hit IT

  As job losses mount and with HP announcing it will lay off tens of thousands of workers following its purchase of EDS, we look at what the crunch means for the IT industry.

• Photos: Aussie research speeds traffic, finds crims

  At NICTA's recent Techfest conference, researchers from National ICT Australia (NICTA) get to show off the projects they have been working on all year, including facial recognition tech designed to help catch criminals as well as better algorithms and sensors for traffic control.

Reviews (10)

• BigPond Next G Wireless Broadband Mobile Card

  Fancy a 1.3Mbps broadband pipeline direct to your notebook, without a cable in sight? The new BigPond wireless data card makes good on Telstra's lofty promises for its Next G network.

• Wireless-G Broadband Router with SpeedBooster

  The Linksys WRT54GS is especially well suited for networks with both 802.11g and 802.11b connections.

• Wireless to the max

  The emerging broadband wireless standard WiMax will address some of the problems with current technology and take wireless to a whole new level.

• Hyper-V

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

• Linksys Etherfast Wireless: Best of both worlds

  Wireless technology is great, but what do you do when you need to mix and match wired and wireless connections?

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