News (21)

  • Optus preferred for Qld SmartNet project

    Optus has been named as a preferred supplier for the Queensland Governments multi-million dollar SmartNet initiative.

  • Optus in wide-scale DSL rollout

    Optus this morning announced a AU$150 million rollout of its own broadband Internet digital subscriber line (DSL) equipment to hundreds of exchanges around Australia.

  • Optus residential DSL due by March

    Optus has announced that it expects its residential ADSL service to be available to consumers by March 2004 after today signing off lengthy negotiations with Telstra Wholesale.

  • Optus reveals final DSL pricing

    Optus has announced pricing for its new DSL broadband plans, which the company expects to boost its push for a significant share of the residential DSL market.

  • Let the broadband price war begin

    Australia's second largest telco Cable & Wireless Optus has announced its rollout of wholesale DSL to business customers throughout the country, which one industry expert believes is the beginning of a price war as fierce as that of the mobile phone market.

Blogs (4)

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Is cable the answer to our broadband woes?

    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.

  • Read the blog post - Phil Dobbie

    The longest last mile

    How much should Telstra be charging for unconditioned local loop?

  • Is cable the answer to Australian broadband woes?

    What many of us may have forgotten is that there is already a perfectly acceptable technology for delivering triple-play services voice, TV and data over a single cable and doing it cost-effectively and at high volume.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Conroy's Six: Can FTTN's gatekeepers deliver?

    Post-election adrenaline surging through his veins, one of the first acts performed by new Communications Minister Stephen Conroy was to disband the expert panel that his predecessor Helen Coonan had appointed last June to evaluate tenders for fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) construction.

Features and Case Studies (3)

  • VPNs without all the hassles

    Running a virtual private network can save you money on leased lines, but can also create a lot of work. Can managed VPN services save you the trouble?

  • Telstra 2.0 won't solve the problem

    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.

  • Internet VPNs: the WAN and the light?

    They promise low-cost connectivity that could make conventional, expensive WANs a thing of the past. But can roll-your-own Internet VPNs really deliver?

Reviews (2)

  • Banking on broadband

    Thousands of SMEs are expected to move to DSL broadband by the end of the year. ZDNet Australia examines the industry and shows how to navigate this competitive and confusing market.

  • 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.

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