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    Telstra is expected to plead guilty today to breaching its obligations to provide competitors access to its copper network.

  • NZ telco report rejects $1.5bn NBN

    The New Zealand government's plan to spend $1.5 billion subsidising fibre-to-the-home broadband is not an effective use of public money, according to a report commissioned by major New Zealand broadband providers Telecom NZ, Vodafone and TelstraClear.

  • US telcos brace for Gustav

    With Hurricane Gustav headed straight toward New Orleans, emergency officials and telecommunication companies are preparing for the worst.

  • Internode steps cautiously into naked DSL

    Internode has announced a roadmap for the rollout of naked DSL services -- broadband access without a phone line subscription -- but claims it's being careful to avoid some of the challenges faced by fellow naked provider iiNet.

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    What was hot in features this year? Check out the 10 most popular articles for 2007.

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    The longest last mile

    How much should Telstra be charging for unconditioned local loop?

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    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.

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  • Telstra's artful fawning

    Reading Telstra's submission to the government on NBN regulation is a bit like reading a combination of Dicken's David Copperfield, specifically the simpering character known as Uriah Heep, and Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.

  • Around the world in ... Fibre-to-the-home

    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.

  • Scale up your infrastructure with 10Gb Ethernet support

    If you're about to build a new Ethernet network or upgrade an existing one, be sure to consider installing an infrastructure that will support 10Gbps bandwidth, even if you don't need that much speed right now.

  • Why you should care about WiMAX

    The next-generation wireless technology could take us one step closer to the mobile nirvana of one bill for mobile, Wi-Fi and broadband connectivity.

  • Intel eyeing storage white boxes?

    Having successfully sparked the production of commodity server computers, the chipmaker may move next to help off-brand companies make low-end disk storage systems.

Reviews (8)

  • 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.

  • More wires, more fire: FireWire 800

    FireWire 800 ups the speed ante, promising twice the data transfer rate of FireWire 400. But what does this mean for you?

  • Squeezing light from nanotubes

    Scientists at IBM Research have discovered a new way to get carbon nanotubes to emit light, a breakthrough that might one day lead to advances in fibre-optic technology.

  • Intel sees cheaper, better optical nets

    Intel plans to lower the cost and increase the performance of optical networking technology, the company said Wednesday, part of the chipmaker's effort to make money off communications as well as computing technology.

  • Infineon weaves deals for wearable computing

    The chipmaker reports "huge" interest in its wearable computing technology, paving the way for everything from ID chips to MP3 players that can be built into ordinary fabrics.

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