Customers of Australian ISP, iiNet, faced a five hour service outage last night reportedly caused by an electrical storm.
Western Australia's peak Internet service providers' body has slammed proposals by the Opposition Liberal Party to legally force ISPs to filter the Internet for adult content as "populist but ridiculous".
Singapore Telecommunications and its Australian subsidiary, Optus, have terminated an Internet peering arrangement with the Western Australian Internet Association's WAIX exchange, citing "a global network consolidation plan".
The Western Australian state government today invited private sector groups to register their interest in building its planned AU$1 billion statewide broadband network (SBN).
Westnet has admitted it has been employing traffic prioritisation on its network -- but hadn't mentioned it to its customers until now
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