The first stage of an upgrade of the submarine Southern Cross Cable linking New Zealand and Australia to the United States has added 260Gbps.
Verizon Communications will soon become the second Baby Bell in the United States to offer broadband to consumers regardless of whether or not those customers also buy its local phone service.
Australian hotel video-on-demand specialist Entertainment Media and Telecoms (EMT) has acquired the hospitality arm of Verizon Select Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S.-based Verizon Communications.
Thanks to bots and the rise of financially-driven cybercrime, the menace of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are too real to ignore -- defending against such attacks however is driving collaboration between ISPs and top tier telcos to push security to the cloud.
The nation's largest telco Telstra today said it would build a new submarine fibre telecommunications cable between Australia and Hawaii.
It wasn't too long ago that vendors still made a lot of their money through equipment markups. Telcos were the same, with comfortable profit on ISDN, STD calls, calls to mobiles and other heavily used services padding out financial reports.
Great to see so many constructive comments on here definitely a case of the facts speaking for themselves.
I don't think I'm stepping out of line when I say that every good analysis combines facts and opinion.
Sometimes, a well-placed and well-timed letter can make all the difference. Other times, it can make no difference at all and even hurt your case. This week's missive by the Competitive Carriers' Coalition, I would suggest, falls into the latter category.
Telstra's 21Mbps Next-G boost and Internode's new 100Mbps FttH networks may be both companies' show ponies, but when it comes to helping most of us, their need-for-speed posturing is just a box-and-dice distraction that we've all seen before.
The Software Freedom Law Center alleges that the telco has violated the terms of the open source General Public License
In his role as Telstra's chief executive, Sol Trujillo is the most talked about and controversial telecommunications executive in Australia. ZDNet.com.au sister site CNET News.com sat down with Trujillo during a recent trip to the US to quiz him about wireless and handsets.
Connection speeds that Australians can only dream of are readily available to South Korean consumers and businesses -- thanks to government support for a massive infrastructure rollout.
Skype sees the mobile market as the next frontier for its service, but economic realities in the voice market -- coupled with mobile operators who feel threatened by Skype -- could put the kibosh on large-scale adoption for some time to come.
Eight months after it emerged from bankruptcy, Redback Networks is racking up new contracts.
Computer and telecommunications companies are allying with file-swapping service Kazaa in a bid to overhaul the way record labels are paid for music and other content distributed on the Net.
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The long-awaited separation of Telstra
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