Canberra telco TransACT will be deploying fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) in the city from this month, with more FTTH tenders on the table.
TransACT Communications will extend the reach of its broadband service to 75,000 more Australian homes within two years.
The devastating firestorms that hit Canberra over the weekend have ravaged the telecommunications services of the region's cable television and broadband provider TransACT.
The ACT government is in the midst of transferring 12,000 employees from Telstra fixed lines to a voice over Internet protocol service provided by Canberra-based carrier TransACT.
Internode will launch video-on-demand services into the Australian market early next year. In addition the ISP is finalising its plans to join the heating-up Australian Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) market this April.
The news this week that Canberra-based TransACT was going to start rolling out fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) services it announced in May, was at first intriguing.
If the world's homes are to enjoy the same high speed connectivity as its offices, the current thinking goes, then fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) will soon become necessary. However, not all Internet economies were created equal.
To winemaker De Bortoli, Linux has provided the opportunity to save money and free up IT staff.
Welfare agency Centrelink has started recruiting for two senior IT executives to bolster its technology management team in its national office in Canberra.
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Australian Department of Defence CIO Greg Farr spoke to ZDNet.com.au about how the organisation's networks are kept secure and why virtualisation and green issues are high on the agenda.
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