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• SA govt starts ticketing search

  The South Australian state government late last week called for companies to express their interest in building its planned new public transport ticketing system.

• SA Govt shaves $4m off DiData renewal

  The South Australian Government has locked in Dimension Data for a further three years under a managed network and security deal worth $36 million, with the government shaving off over $1 million a year from the value of the past contract.

• SA to fill Adelaide's ADSL blackspots

  The South Australian government has gone to market for a telecommunications carrier to fill Adelaide's ADSL black spots until the $4.7 billion national fibre-to-the-node broadband network (NBN) gets underway.

• Mt Gambier fibre project nears end

  After almost two years of delays, the South Australian government has announced it is finally drawing to the end of a $2 million project in Mount Gambier to connect 20 government agencies with fast broadband.

• SA awards $404m in telco deals

  The South Australian government has named the six telcos which will be on its telecommunications services panel, singling out Telstra as the supplier of its mobile services for the next three years.

Blogs (6)

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  State of the budgets

  It's state budget time across the country, and this week's episode of Patch Monday looks to see what each state is doing in terms of its IT spend.

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  Don't be an IT snake oil salesman

  IT often promises the government much with the big pull being productivity gains and cost savings, but does the government think about IT in the terms of something that will cure its ills or something which could backfire and give it process diarrhea for a decade?

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  Seven vividly proves WiMax not dead yet

  It wasn't too long ago that critics of WiMax wireless technology were declaring it dead at the starting gate.

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  Phone jamming hang ups

  When it comes to matters of national security, you do not have the right to know.

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  Talking outsourcing

  If there's one jurisdiction that can claim to have learned from harsh experience in outsourcing, it's South Australia. Here's hoping others are paying close attention to how it applies those lessons.

Features and Case Studies (14)

• SA eyes Apple, Red Hat to dodge vendor lock-in

  The South Australian government is looking at a software overhaul that could see Apple or Red Hat taking over from Microsoft on the state's PCs. Analysts warn, however, skills costs could still lead to a software environment dominated by a single platform.

• Mount Gambier to get fibre broadband

  The South Australian government hopes to build a fibre broadband network in the regional centre of Mount Gambier.

• Pirates should abandon the federal ship

  The Pirate Party of Australia should forget about trying to win a Senate seat in the Federal Government and instead focus its sights on even lower hanging fruit. I speak, of course, of the state governments.

• Gershon pumpkin will vanish at midnight

  The long-term net impact of Gershon's idealistic review will realistically be negligible at best and at worst will prove to be a distraction for years to come.

• Australia: ERP in government

  Phase two of government ERP implementations is set to take off. What can you expect? Also: Find out why one local city council had to ditch Oracle.

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