Small Internet service providers attract customers through their personalised service and support, lower prices and in some cases availability, but can lose out to the complex, finely-tuned systems set up by the larger telecommunications companies.
A number of smaller ISPs have joined the broadband price war which flared last week between Telstra and Optus.
The number of Australian ISPs offering wireless Internet access options has fallen dramatically over the past year, according to a survey conducted by telecommunications research firm Market Clarity.
After Bruce Billson, Opposition spokesperson for Communications, claimed yesterday that the federal government is planning on cutting subsidies to rural and regional broadband providers, a number of industry sources have cast doubt on whether the policy axe has been raised over the Australian Broadband Guarantee.
Uncertainty reigns about whether Stephen Conroy's Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy has received Enex Testlabs' report into the feasibility of ISP-level content filtering.
Pretty soon, the government will be screening and filtering our email as well as making blogs like this one disappear.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has welcomed "improvements" in ISP filtering technologies, but will a broad-scale roll-out make ISPs a thief's favourite target?
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.
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.
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.
Boss of internet service provider Exetel, John Linton, says the National Broadband Network should be handed to the only company that can build it Telstra and he's not impressed by NBN Co chief Mike Quigley.
Since last November when iiNet very loudly launched its naked DSL product, "naked" has been on everybody's lips, and it seemed like everybody was in on it. Some, however have held out. This round-up of 13 ISPs looks into who's got it, who doesn't and who wants to.
Google's Vint Cerf shares his thoughts on the limitless possibilities of the Internet.
It's been an exceptionally busy period for the nation's largest Internet service provider, but all for the wrong reasons.
Executives from several of Australia's largest internet service providers have over the past few months expressed their desire to become media companies in their own right.
Australian ISPs have ambitions to become content providers as well as connection providers.
BigPond, Internode and iiNet discuss whether the Australian ISP industry will see consolidation.
BigPond, iiNet and Internode discuss whether Australian ISPs will in the future use advertising to make money.
Former BigPond group managing director Justin Milne talks about whether there is a conflict between the ISP and cable TV provider Foxtel.
A new program, "Drive-Assist," has been created to disable a cell phone if it detects driving motion, preventing people from chatting on the phone while driving. CBS's Daniel Sieberg has more.
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.
Australia still has way to go before it can meet its full potential with wireless and broadband.
Modem manufacturer D-Link had been distributing one of its ADSL modems to some of Telstra's largest wholesale customers without the carrier's interoperability certification for around four months.
Telstra's wireless CDMA 1x network is for Australian road warriors who don't mind paying big bucks for maximum mobility.
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