The year 2006 was one of extremes for the Australian telecommunications sector.
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Aged-care provider Anglican Homes has replaced a PABX telephone system with a converged voice and data network at two sites as part of a wider project due for completion by the end of 2007.
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The vision of the future BT portrayed this week at an Australian conference was so far removed from how Telstra's David Quilty has described the British telco that I wonder if they were talking about the same UK.
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.
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VoIP delivers cost-savings and improved control over customer support calls for Australian office-products supplier, Corporate Express.
With a star-studded employment history including a stint as the chief information officer of Telstra, Jeff Smith is one of Australia's top-flight technology executives.
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The increasing popularity of IP telephony is a big worry for local telcos, but not all the pieces are in place for Australia to take full advantage.
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