Perth-based Internet service provider Westnet will next month start offering high-speed ADSL2+ broadband services, utilising the network of SingTel subsidiary Optus.
Pipe Networks' chief, Bevan Slattery, may have found his "cash-out" door from the company that helped internet service providers snub Telstra, but many of those customers are not happy that a direct competitor could now control it.
Internet service provider TPG has revealed it's toying with offering users unbundled ADSL2+ without the need for a Telstra line.
update The construction of Internet service provider TPG Internet's ADSL2+ broadband network is behind schedule, the company revealed today.
The federal government has come in for a caning in the Australian Broadband Survey 2003, which collated valid responses from 10,335 Internet users.
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The potential acquisition of Pipe Networks by SP Telemedia has raised the question about whether vertically integrated backhaul providers will mean higher wholesale prices for ISP customers.
When broadband providers offer packages that you think look to good to be true, you're rarely disappointed.
The inference that Soul, AAPT and TransACT were Dead Telcos Walking long before their withdrawals were announced makes me wonder whether Terria has always been, God help us all, just as flimsy a proposition as Telstra has made it out to be.
Life may be like a box of chocolates -- but telecoms right now is gearing up to be a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, as service providers seek increasingly novel ways to blend their offerings.
The proposed buyout of Pipe Networks by SP Telemedia is an absolute travesty for Australia's telecommunications industry and will be overwhelmingly negative for customers, Pipe Networks staff, shareholders and the industry as a whole.
While everyone was distracted by the NBN, a revolution was under way in the supply of fixed line broadband.
Alcatel-Lucent's optical network terminal (ONT) equipment was not considered suitable for an open access fibre deployment similar to the future NBN roll-out at a greenfield estate in Victoria, according to the project's builder.
The obvious candidates for consolidation in Australia's telecommunications sector are the 170 internet service providers that are scratching to make a living, but others include Dodo, M8 Telecom, Macquarie Telecom and Eftel.
Reading over the results from the Australian Broadband Survey for 2004 confirms what many ZDNet Australia readers have written about over the past year: Telstra drastically needs to improve its BigPond service.
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