Telstra has revealed the cost of replacing the pair gain technology that has caused so much anguish throughout Australia would hit AU$2 billion, according to the Opposition.
Optus has launched its new ADSL2+ broadband network, offering speeds of up to 20Mbps -- 4Mbps short of what other providers claim is the limit of the technology.
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.
The Federal Government has welcomed a AU$10 million investment into regional broadband by Telstra, saying it addressed a number of concerns raised by a recent inquiry into telecommunications services to rural and regional Australia.
More details have been revealed about Telstra's plans to improve the services of customers currently labouring under restrictive pair gains technology.
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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.
Since last November when iiNet very loudly launched its naked DSL product, "naked" has been on everybody's lips, and it seemed like everybody was in on it. Some, however have held out. This round-up of 13 ISPs looks into who's got it, who doesn't and who wants to.
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".
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.
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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.
Recently I asked how many of you still use a telephone line to connect to the Internet. The result? Plenty of you still use the good old standby, the dial-up modem. That wasn't really a surprise, although from what you read in magazines and on Web sites you'd think everyone already had a broadband connection.
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