Telco Optus has defended its plans to introduce new usage-based plans for its OptusNet Cable service, slated to begin on July 1.
Optus customers in Sydney and Melbourne suffered network service disruptions today following an accident during trackworks north of Wollongong.
Optus customers in Queensland are stranded in a communications desert, with a cable break at the Gold Coast wreaking havoc.
The first stage of an upgrade of the submarine Southern Cross Cable linking New Zealand and Australia to the United States has added 260Gbps.
Google has joined SingTel and four other carriers to build a new high bandwidth submarine cable system between the US and Japan, in a move to address its broadband capacity needs.
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Somewhere along the line, it became assumed that xDSL technologies -- which run over the last-mile of wiring so tightly controlled by Telstra -- were the only way forward for Australian broadband.
There are times when the tone of Australia's broadband discussions makes me want to laugh, and others when it just makes me want to cry. The past week has been one of the latter, after two very different broadband-related stories made their way across my desk.
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Sprint's WiMAX roll-out in Baltimore will prove the Australian government's decision to worm its way out of the Opel WiMAX contract was a short-sighted, and ultimately damaging, political stunt that has benefited nobody.
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The Australian Labor Party's ICT shadow minister wants a national fibre broadband network and enough skilled people to exploit it.
For the beige retail PC industry, there is a dark side to the idea of a PC as a whitegoods purchase.
The Optus USB modem works as advertised, but fluctuations in service and a few software bugs have hampered our experience during testing.
With two batteries and a separate charger, the SGH-i780 could be a wise choice for the mobile professional, although it's a bit bulky and the screen is a touch small for some applications
Optus has leveraged its cable TV relationships to be the first to offer streaming television to mobile phones.
Fancy a 1.3Mbps broadband pipeline direct to your notebook, without a cable in sight? The new BigPond wireless data card makes good on Telstra's lofty promises for its Next G network.
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