Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology may be viewed as a potential redeemer for telecommunications competition by various industry bodies, but veteran analyst Paul Budde said yesterday VoIP may not present as much of a threat to Telstra's dominance as others may think.
Shadow communications minister Lindsay Tanner has unveiled the Labor Party's plans for the telecommunications industry under a Labor government, singling out Telstra ownership and industry competition as the major issues for its party platform.
Telstra has responded angrily to claims published on broadband community Web site Whirlpool this morning that the telecommunications heavyweight is still installing ADSL-incompatible pair gain and RIMs in new housing estates.
Australian telecommunications heavyweight, Telstra, unveiled its new "Innovation Centre" in Sydney yesterday, designed to "accelerate the development of new and emerging technology solutions for customers".
A Brisbane IT company is calling on property developers to involve service providers in building new estates to avoid residents being lumbered with a network that can't be upgraded to provide broadband.
Australia's competition regulator has warned it will act to ensure technological innovations that pose a serious threat to Telstra's dominance of the telecommunications sector are not "strangled at birth".
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