The first stage of an upgrade of the submarine Southern Cross Cable linking New Zealand and Australia to the United States has added 260Gbps.
Telecommunications lobbyists are lining up to oppose Hollywood's demands for new copyright laws. Verizon lawyer Sarah Deutsch explains what's behind this confrontation.
Travel guide giant Lonely Planet joins a string of newcomers to Verizon Business as the telecommunications provider seeks to bolster its operations in Australia.
International telco Verizon last week admitted it had shed some Australian staff with its January acquisition of MCI. But the US heavyweight continues to win large deals Down Under.
The nation's largest telco Telstra today said it would build a new submarine fibre telecommunications cable between Australia and Hawaii.
I don't think I'm stepping out of line when I say that every good analysis combines facts and opinion.
It wasn't too long ago that vendors still made a lot of their money through equipment markups. Telcos were the same, with comfortable profit on ISDN, STD calls, calls to mobiles and other heavily used services padding out financial reports.
The coming glut of 100Gbps Ethernet shows that the potential growth of the National Broadband Network is limited only by the laws of physics and the laws of Parliament.
The world of speculative telecommunications investments has quieted down considerably since the beginning of the decade, when hype-fuelled carriers plunked down billions to reserve the right to carry mobile phone calls, video calls, and massive volumes of spam at high speed using then-fanciful 3G mobile technology.
With all the excitement over the iPhone, few people have noticed that 1 July was the 11th anniversary of the deregulation of Australia's telecommunications market.
In the United States, the shift to low-cost Internet calling has cost the old-line phone giants dearly. Someday, this could happen in Australia.
Networking groups around the globe are working on ways to allow roaming on any number of wireless networks--just as mobile phone users roam on mobile networks.
BT, long considered a risk-taker in the telecommunications market, has laid a US$105 million bet to open its network to application developers in the hopes of creating innovative voice services. But will other phone companies take a similar gamble?
In his role as Telstra's chief executive, Sol Trujillo is the most talked about and controversial telecommunications executive in Australia. ZDNet.com.au sister site CNET News.com sat down with Trujillo during a recent trip to the US to quiz him about wireless and handsets.
US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.
Computer and telecommunications companies are allying with file-swapping service Kazaa in a bid to overhaul the way record labels are paid for music and other content distributed on the Net.
Handset makers are eager to give people the ability to connect to different types of wireless networks--all on one device.
"Talk, then toss," is becoming a mantra in a small corner of the mobile phone industry. A new breed of wireless handsets, expected to hit the market later this year, is low-cost, extremely easy to use and disposable.
Allies of Sun Microsystems have completed a second version of Java software for mobile phones that they hope will fill some of the gaps left by the first, but many expect challenges moving to the new technology.
More cellular carriers are offering SMS than ever before. Want to be continuously connected? Here's how.
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