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Australian internet telephony vendor Freshtel has signed agreements to install internet phones in several local universities' student accommodation buildings.
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The US telecoms giant AT&T has claimed that, without investment, the Internet's current network architecture will reach the limits of its capacity by 2010.
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A good merger always gets the pulse racing -- and Seven's takeover of Unwired could be shaping up to be one of the most interesting for a while.
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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".
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The V-100 combines solid technology and a service that's cheaper to run than competing VoIP services, and is highly recommended.
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