While 2001 will be remembered for many things, it was the year the last remaining free Australian ISPs became tangled in their non-profitable business model and sunk once and for all. Or did it?
ISP and Primus telecommunications subsidiary Hotkey Internet Services has expanded its presence in Victoria and NSW through the acquisition of UseOz, Blue Mountains Internet and Standard.net.
The latest Bureau of Statistics figures show the number of Internet subscribers in Australia rose to 3.9 million at the end of the December quarter, but there were 7,000 fewer household Internet accounts.
The Australian Communication Authority has released draft ISP guidelines for disclosing service information to potential customers, but is yet to finalise information that will be used to judge provider performance.
A recent case in Canada has highlighted some of the privacy flaws associated with email services.
Termination of file-sharing internet users' accounts is coming up for New Zealanders again.
Could the spread of the cloud force Australian ISPs to step away from usage-based models and finally offer real, unlimited broadband packages with no hard limits? Not very likely.
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I have one word for the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT). Gutless.
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The debate over the relationship between ISPs, customers, and Internet security is definitely a complicated one, but who should bear the responsibility for protecting users online?
Australian managed security providers (MSPs) are looking forward to healthy growth in 2002 as the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000 begins to force the hand of business of all sizes.
There is no suggestion even by government that this filter would aid law enforcement, and nobody, including the ISPs themselves, has suggested there is any possibility that the pilot will tell a different story.
Net neutrality has the superficial attraction of 1960's free love, argues Telstra's Justin Milne, until you realise that one party gets all the gratification while the other bears all the costs.
Check out our photos of copyright amendment protesters in Wellington, New Zealand, outside the country's parliament yesterday.
Australian ISPs have ambitions to become content providers as well as connection providers.
BigPond, Internode and iiNet discuss whether the Australian ISP industry will see consolidation.
BigPond, iiNet and Internode discuss whether Australian ISPs will in the future use advertising to make money.
Former BigPond group managing director Justin Milne talks about whether there is a conflict between the ISP and cable TV provider Foxtel.
iiNet could soon be providing mobile phone services through a major partnership, according to CTO Greg Bader. He also revealed that the ISP is confident it will replace Optus as Australia's second largest broadband provider.
The Internet is in the process of taking over our lives, so if you aren't connected, maybe it is time you were.
Modem manufacturer D-Link had been distributing one of its ADSL modems to some of Telstra's largest wholesale customers without the carrier's interoperability certification for around four months.
Reading over the results from the Australian Broadband Survey for 2004 confirms what many ZDNet Australia readers have written about over the past year: Telstra drastically needs to improve its BigPond service.
A subsidiary of electronics maker Sony is to sell downloadable movie files that self-destruct after a given time.
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