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• Rural broadband: Govt wants you to have your say

  Despite fears the Australian Broadband Guarantee (ABG) might be axed, the Rudd government has approved the subsidy for Australia's most remote Internet users for one more year.

• Conroy kills $1bn OPEL rural broadband contract

  The federal government has cancelled the contract for Optus and Elders to build a WiMAX broadband network, the companies say.

• Conroy gives rural ISPs guidance on bush broadband

  Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy has issued a new set of guidelines for ISPs servicing rural and regional Australia, on the back of the Federal government's decision to extend the Australian Broadband Guarantee as part of last Tuesday's budget.

• Rural Victoria left off the broadband map: Minister

  The Victorian Minister for Information and Communications Technology has lashed out at the federal government saying it has not provided rural Victorians with adequate access to broadband technology despite the region's increasing demand.

• Fears rural doctors stymied by Aust broadband

  Pharmaceutical company, Aventis is taking its medical education role into the Internet age but there are signs rural doctors have been forgotten in the process.

Blogs (25)

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  In CDMA hubbub, don't forget the broadband

  Last week, a family friend rang for some technical help. "Telstra sold me this wireless Internet service and they promised it would work both at my home and at my office," he said. Said home is in the Melbourne CBD, and said office is in Kyneton, a lovely town about an hour away from Melbourne.

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  Dongles out, 3G netbooks are swinging

  Sure, better 3G coverage is good for competition, but it's what you do with the 3G that will ultimately make the difference. As Vodafone expands its network footprint, the practice of selling 3G-enabled netbooks like mobile phones should really resonate with end users.

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  Labor or Liberal, it's Telstra's election

  If there was ever evidence that the stoush over broadband had gotten personal, it came when Telstra's sour-grapes mentality led it to sue Helen Coonan, personally, for claimed procedural flaws in the OPEL contract.

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  Has New Zealand's smiling assassin delivered?

  One year into its tenure, how has the new New Zealand Government performed on issues of technology and telecommunications?

• Robbing Joe the Shearer to pay Paul

  Joe the Shearer can wait. Telstra is clearly going to roll out its NBN in capital cities first, where the most customers live and, despite Telstra's assertions, many residents already have access to decent broadband.

Features and Case Studies (34)

• Mount Gambier to get fibre broadband

  The South Australian government hopes to build a fibre broadband network in the regional centre of Mount Gambier.

• WiMax: The saviour of rural broadband?

  What technology can blast data up to seven times faster and a thousand times further than Wi-Fi?

• New NBN a threat to Telstra

  The Rudd Government's decision to build its own broadband network significantly cranks up the threat to Telstra's dominance in the telecommunications sector.

• Shocking times for Aussie broadband over powerline

  It seemed like a good idea at the time, but Australian utilities' recent abandonment of broadband over powerline (BPL) technology has all but sealed the fate of a technology that was once hoped to bring high-speed data to every corner of Australia.

• Around the world in.... WiMax

  WiMax, the controversial long range wireless broadband technology, is set to spread across rural Australia from next year -- but despite the outgoing Howard government's ambitious project, both fixed and mobile variants of the technology are already being deployed around the world.

Reviews (11)

• Fries with your broadband?

  Even in big cities it can be a heck of a lot easier to find a Big Mac than it can be to find a wireless hotspot.

• Broadband: Which plan is for you?

  The broadband business -- plans, peaks, and penalties -- can be confusing to say the least. We line up some of Australia's best.

• Telstra pledges better bush telecommunications

  Telstra Country Wide has announced a AU$231 million investment in 2003/04 to improve services to regional areas.

• 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.

• I want my iTV

  For all its publicised benefits, why is iTV still having such a hard time making it in Australia?

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