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  • Telstra: don't subsidise new Optus network

    Telstra today said its rival Optus should not receive a regulatory break if it wants to extend its broadband network.

  • Netspace launches 10 Tassie DSLAMs

    Internet service provider Netspace today announced the activation of 10 DSLAMs (Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer) in Tasmania.

  • Internode DSLAMs Victoria, Tasmania

    Internode will spend $10 million upgrading its ADSL2+ infrastructure in a move that will primarily benefit Victorian and Tasmanian customers.

  • Primus tackles Telstra with ADSL2+

    Primus Telecom Australia has its sights set on a market of half the Australian population with the initial deployment of new digital subscriber line (DSL) network infrastructure.

  • Optus in wide-scale DSL rollout

    Optus this morning announced a AU$150 million rollout of its own broadband Internet digital subscriber line (DSL) equipment to hundreds of exchanges around Australia.

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  • Read the blog post - Phil Dobbie

    Tasmanian Premier Bartlett talks NBN

    In today's Twisted Wire, Tasmanian Premier David Bartlett explains his vision for a broadband enabled Tasmania, that will "leapfrog every other nation on earth".

  • Read the blog post - Phil Dobbie

    Do we need the legislative blackmail?

    Virtually everyone in the telecommunications industry has their say in the Senate Standing Committee's public hearing into the pending legislation to split up Telstra, in this week's Twisted Wire podcast.

  • Read the blog post - Phil Dobbie

    The longest last mile

    How much should Telstra be charging for unconditioned local loop?

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Just how fast is fast, anyway?

    There's something immensely gratifying about accomplishing the seemingly impossible -- particularly in IT, where pundits regularly proclaim that a particular technology has hit its physical limits.

Features and Case Studies (5)

  • Pipe Networks sell-out an absolute travesty

    The proposed buyout of Pipe Networks by SP Telemedia is an absolute travesty for Australia's telecommunications industry and will be overwhelmingly negative for customers, Pipe Networks staff, shareholders and the industry as a whole.

  • NBN numbers don't stack up

    The early signs aren't that promising if the Rudd Government wants to get the private sector to invest in its new $43 billion National Broadband Network.

  • Telstra lost in the wasteland

    From dead parrots to ACCC lawsuits, the National Broadband Network and Fake Stephen Conroy, it's like Telstra is lost in T.S. Eliot's epic poem The Wasteland.

  • Australian naked DSL mega-roundup

    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.

  • Conroy charts national broadband agenda

    The Australian Labor Party's ICT shadow minister wants a national fibre broadband network and enough skilled people to exploit it.

Reviews (2)

  • NetComm NCT240

    NetComm have offered a small scale DSLAM designed for hotels, serviced apartments or serviced offices. We found it to be a very robust device which is easy to deploy and manage.

  • 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.

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