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Telecom New Zealand has hit out at changes proposed by the NZ Government at the way phone services to uneconomic customers are funded under the telecommunications service obligations (TSO).
The Victorian Government has announced that Telstra has been chosen to build a national phone-based warning system.
Telstra has distanced itself from the ACCC's estimates of the value of its copper access network, estimates that were accidentally released yesterday by Minister for Communications Stephen Conroy.
Allowing easy access to public data is gathering pace, with federal and state MPs staging events that promote openness in government will there be any tangible outcomes or is this another government talkfest?
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As the knee-jerk defensive responses to Rudd's "adios" subside and Australia moves on, has Rudd made Australia that little less appealing to the overseas investors he desperately needs to fund his NBN?
As Rudd and Conroy railroad the NBN into reality, the Liberals are trying to inject some due process into the whole thing by holding Labor accountable for its decisions. However, with the future of Australian telecoms on the line and no real viable alternative, is it just a bit late for accountability?
Earlier this week (Tuesday 3 March) a number of telecommunications industry heavyweights fronted up to the Senate Select Committee on the National Broadband Network.
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In the tragic circumstances that unfolded in Victoria on Black Saturday, no one could deny that as the fires raced across public land towards their homes, those residents had a clear right to information.
Former Communications Minister Richard Alston writes that it is critically important to reinvigorate the competitive process in Australia's telecommunications industry with the National Broadband Network and not simply replace one behemoth with another.
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The Federal Government has announced it will make it illegal to change a mobile phone's unique IMEI number in a move to strengthen attempts to end rampant mobile theft.
South Korean government officials are warning consumers that Internet and e-commerce sites in that country may lack full compatibility with Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, which will become available to consumers next week.
The Queensland government has used its buying power to increase mobile coverage within the state, after it "got tired of waiting for the federal government to do something".
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