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.
Australian businesses will have greater broadband choice from June 2002, following an agreement signed by Pacific Internet and NEC Australia.
Rural and regional Australians are still out in the cold despite the fact Australia's DSL market shake-up last year prompted independent carriers to install more than 70,000 ports of ADSL infrastructure.
Wireless carrier BigAir will list on the Australian Stock Exchange with the aim of generating funds to expand its fixed wireless broadband network beyond Sydney.
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.
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.
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Ray Gilbert, assistant vice president for IT enterprise collaboration at Alcatel Lucent, tells ZDNet.com editor-in-chief Dan Farber how the telecom services provider is addressing mobility needs and convergence challenges for the next generation of digital devices.
For Western Australia's DVG Automotive Group, the ability to move phone calls over a data network was just the beginning of a VoIP project that's on track to pay for itself in as little as seven months.
Residents and businesses throughout 95 percent of Sydney will soon have the option to side-step Telstra's copper-line network altogether for their broadband and telephony services.
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.
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