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• 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.

• TPG ponders naked DSL

  Internet service provider TPG has revealed it's toying with offering users unbundled ADSL2+ without the need for a Telstra line.

• Telstra begins to unwind

  Telstra wholesale, and broadband wholesaler RequestDSL, have today unveiled a trial spectrum sharing agreement which could lead to an improvement in the roll-out and pricing of broadband in Australia.

• Telstra broadband shrugs off criticism

  Telstra's announcement of an upswing in broadband subscriber numbers today has been marred by allegations of broadband applications going missing and substantial delays in connection times.

Blogs (8)

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  The longest last mile

  How much should Telstra be charging for unconditioned local loop?

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  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.

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  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.

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  Just how fast is fast, anyway?

  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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  Too little, too late, for the local loop?

  The news this week that Canberra-based TransACT was going to start rolling out fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) services it announced in May, was at first intriguing.

Features and Case Studies (19)

• Australian naked DSL mega-roundup

  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.

• 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?

• That other broadband revolution

  While everyone was distracted by the NBN, a revolution was under way in the supply of fixed line broadband.

• 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.

• NSW Parliament: Life after Telstra

  As the place where all legislation governing New South Wales originates, NSW Parliament has more than your basic obligations when it comes to ensuring the security of its data. But how can a small government department, with just five network staff looking after a main office and network of 94 branch offices spread across the country, ever hope to keep up?

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  Naked DSL is too difficult to buy: iiNet

  iiNet's CTO Greg Bader admits that Naked DSL is 'one of the hardest products to get connected to' because it is beyond the ISPs control. He also admits to 'not having much joy' working with Telstra in making the switching process simpler.

Reviews (7)

• Telstra pledges better bush telecommunications

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

• 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.

• Is broadband right for you? Here are nine signs that it isn't

  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.

• Telstra NetComm Turbo 7 Series Wireless Gateway

  NetComm Turbo 7 Series Wireless Gateway provides an easy set-up, good coverage and modest speed. While this system gives you the advantage of portable wireless gateway, wireless services are less reliable and cannot match ADSL2 speeds.

• UPDATE: Aust ISPs in legal limbo for four months over modem

  Modem manufacturer D-Link had been distributing one of its ADSL modems to some of Telstra's largest wholesale customers without the carrier's interoperability certification for around four months.

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