Members of the telecommunications industry have responded with disappointment to the major political parties' abandonment of debate over the structural separation of Telstra.
The federal government has released an AU$181 million package of measures to placate rural and regional Australia's anger over telecommunications service limitations as the Telstra privatisation progresses.
The Federal Government has stifled a proposed Senate inquiry into the state of broadband competition in Australia, raising the ire of the Opposition and industry groups.
Telstra's licence should be amended to guarantee minimum 19.2 kbps Internet access over its fixed network and the carrier be required to address "poorly performing pair gain systems," a landmark report recommends.
An inquiry looking at Australian telco services has resulted in the Government offering a satellite phone handset subsidy to people in rural and remote areas.
The Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Senator Richard Alston, outlines the Federal Government's ICT initiatives for 2003.
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?
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It seemed to be an obvious recipe: take two popular emerging technologies and stir vigorously. But the end result isn't to everyone's taste.
It seemed to be an obvious recipe: take two popular emerging technologies and stir vigorously. But the end result isn't to everyone's taste.
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