The company delivering the Federal Government's National Broadband Network has appointed former Service Stream chief executive and founder Patrick Flannigan as its head of construction.
NEC Australia looks set for an early National Broadband Network win as greenfield fibre-to-the-home service provider, OptiComm, finalises an early deployment contract with NBN Tasmania.
Telecom New Zealand's recently launched XT mobile service failed across much of the country earlier today.
At a broadband forum last week, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy called the per-house costing of Tasmania's optic fibre network "bizarre maths".
Tasmania NBN, the arm of the NBN Company that will build and operate the state's wholesale fibre telco, has directly contracted a "active network" equipment supplier, but chief Doug Campbell is staying tight-lipped over its identity.
Conroy's blind adherence to his net filtering plan will abandon Net neutrality ideals and push ISPs down a slippery slope of unprecedented responsibility for a callously politicised Australian Internet.
Faced with a renewed threat in newly-appointed Tony Abbott and unknown-quantity communications portfolio ankle-biter Tony Smith, Stephen Conroy responded this week in the way any politician would: he gave lots, and lots, and lots of speeches.
When your broadband speeds are limited to 38Kbps it's not hard to join the ranks of people demanding the NBN already. Telstra's copper network is a renovator's delight.
Five consecutive days without broadband has led me to what seemed at the time to be an act of desperation: contemplating signing up for Telstra's 100Mbps cable modem service.
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.
As a veteran IT security consultant with first-hand experience working at two of Australia's largest ISP/telcos, encompassing the installing and configuration of many of the filtering technologies currently on the market, I am writing to express my deep concerns about your proposed internet filter.
A month after admitting to receiving the ISP filtering live trial report, the office of Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has committed to releasing it in "due course".
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy will likely release a censored version of Enex Testlabs' report into the technical feasibility of ISP-level internet filtering, in an attempt to minimise the fallout on his political career.
Federal finance minister Lindsay Tanner says the government will beef up the independence of the Future Fund to remove doubt over its ability to make its own decisions, particularly on Telstra.
Google announced the open-sourcing of its Chrome OS early this morning, and the search giant was very clear in explaining its target market for Chrome OS devices: this is a companion device, not a primary desktop machine. But is a Chrome OS netbook intrinsically better than a lowly iPod?
Joseph Hanlon takes you through the pros and cons of wireless broadband to help you figure out if it's right for you.
ACT senator and former shadow Minister for ICT Kate Lundy told ZDNet.com.au last month in a video interview that a project as large as the National Broadband Network was bound to see schedule slippage.
Australians tell us what they think of the $43 billion National Broadband Network.
Shadow Communications Minister talks about key issues in his portfolio: the National Broadband Network, the ISP filter and more.
Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU) national president Ed Husic talks about how Telstra's strikes are going and what Telstra's fall from the national broadband network process means to its workers.
Core i7 is here in mobile form. Some vendors will be attempting to rush these laptops out as close to the Windows 7 launch as possible. Keep an eye out looks like the season to upgrade is well and truly upon us.
The NC10 betters previous Samsung netbooks with a built-in HSDPA SIM card reader and the portability this provides. Optus wireless broadband bundles seem like excellent value.
iiNet customers who yearn for a simple networking life will do well out of BoB, although like most routers, it's not without its quirks.
Swelling the ranks of 11.6-inch netbooks, the Asus Eee PC 1101HA impresses with its design and battery, but having to overclock a slower version of Intel's Atom CPU is a dodgy workaround.
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