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  • ACCC denies Telstra request to limit Optus

    Australia's competition regulator late yesterday denied an application by Telstra to stop supplying Optus fixed line services within the SingTel subsidiary's cable network footprint.

  • Optus, iiNet crush Telstra in speed challenge

    Customers of Optus and iiNet, along with users of TPG and Internode, have a much faster Internet connection than their Telstra-using counterparts, according to results generated by ZDNet Australia's Broadband Speedtest.

  • Telstra and G9 square up for real fibre fight

    The phony war is over, the real battle is now on -- the government's expert taskforce has published its full list of guidelines that would-be bidders for Australia's urban high speed broadband network will need to abide by.

  • Netspace likely to get paws on iiNet's ADSL2+

    Evidence is mounting that Netspace will be one of the first Internet service providers to gain wholesale access to iiNet's national ADSL2+ broadband network.

  • Pacific adds Optus DSL to list

    Internet service provider Pacific Internet has added Optus to its list of DSL wholesalers, citing increased demand for its high-availability plans.

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  • Regional health clinics hook up to VPN

    Rural health has been given a boost as telcos push the latest "must have" Internet technology.

  • 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?

  • Around the world in.... WiMax

    WiMax, the controversial long range wireless broadband technology, is set to spread across rural Australia from next year -- but despite the outgoing Howard government's ambitious project, both fixed and mobile variants of the technology are already being deployed around the world.

  • The rights and wrongs of WiMax

    When the government announced that Optus and Elders had won the bid to build Australia's bush broadband network, it provoked jeers and plaudits alike, but it was the ISPs' choice of WiMax as the bearer technology that has provoked the most furious storm of argument. Just how will the technology stand up to life in the bush?

  • Playing 'for' a perfect host

    Before handing over your IT requirements to a host, you had better learn to play all your cards right.

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