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  • Primus slashes headcount

    Telecommunications player Primus Telecom today conceded 10 percent of its 1,000-strong workforce in Australia was being axed due to an organisational restructure of permanent and casual staff.

  • Verizon to offer 'naked' DSL

    Verizon Communications will soon become the second Baby Bell in the United States to offer broadband to consumers regardless of whether or not those customers also buy its local phone service.

  • Telstra pledges better bush telecommunications

    Telstra Country Wide has announced a AU$231 million investment in 2003/04 to improve services to regional areas.

  • Telstra undercuts Optus DSL

    Telstra announced yesterday new budget prices for its high-speed Internet services, beating out the fledgling Optus DSL a day before its launch.

  • Adelaide to get AU$9.6 million non-Telstra DSL network

    South Australian Internet Service Provider Adam Internet has announced that it would invest AU$9.6 million into a private next generation broadband network in Australia, independent of Telstra's exchanges.

Blogs (3)

  • Read the blog post - Phil Dobbie

    The longest last mile

    How much should Telstra be charging for unconditioned local loop?

  • 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.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Getting naked reveals the hard truth of ULL

    Streaker Robert Ogilvie may have learned the hard way that getting naked can be painful, but many other Australians are apparently learning the same lesson as they try to break ties with Telstra once and for all.

Features and Case Studies (21)

  • Tech threats to Telstra can't be "strangled at birth": ACCC

    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".

  • IP goes home

    The increasing popularity of IP telephony is a big worry for local telcos, but not all the pieces are in place for Australia to take full advantage.

  • Exclusive: Froggy finds its feet

    As Karl Suleman's fleet of luxury cars go under the auctioneer's hammer, John Paterson and Tim Berry have collectively climbed into the drivers seat of the long-suffering ISP, Froggy.

  • Australia on brink of a broadband boom

    Australia is about to undergo a long overdue broadband boom, according to an industry report to be released later this month.

  • Aust broadband: bottom of the ladder

    Thirty or so years since the birth of the Internet, we seem to be at a technological standstill when it comes to access speeds and bandwidth. If it is meant to be a superhighway, why does it feel like a back road?

Reviews (8)

  • Telstra pledges better bush telecommunications

    Telstra Country Wide has announced a AU$231 million investment in 2003/04 to improve services to regional areas.

  • NetComm NCT240

    NetComm have offered a small scale DSLAM designed for hotels, serviced apartments or serviced offices. We found it to be a very robust device which is easy to deploy and manage.

  • 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.

  • PC Expo: What's hot ... and not

    Handheld computers, Internet appliances and wireless connectivity... If you're looking for the next big thing, check out PC Expo's best-dressed list. Is your PDA hot, or not?

  • What's next for wireless

    The frequency is changing from wired working to a wireless world. Can this new wave of technology help you gain the cutting edge?

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