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.
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.
Australian police will be able to exploit legal ambiguities in Federal anti-terror legislation that could weaken e-mail privacy protection, according to Electronic Frontiers Australia.
The Australian Communication Authority is expected to release guidelines to standardise information about Internet service offerings that ISPs present to consumers, early next week.
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If someone gave you AU$93.5 million to spend, would you forget it? I wouldn't either. But this is exactly what seems to have happened in the aftermath of the 2007/8 federal budget, which was widely lambasted by many observers -- including yours truly -- for its lack of funding for meaningful ICT related initiatives.
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Post-election adrenaline surging through his veins, one of the first acts performed by new Communications Minister Stephen Conroy was to disband the expert panel that his predecessor Helen Coonan had appointed last June to evaluate tenders for fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) construction.
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Australia's competition regulator has warned it will act to ensure technological innovations that pose a serious threat to Telstra's dominance of the telecommunications sector are not "strangled at birth".
As Karl Suleman's fleet of luxury cars go under the auctioneer's hammer, John Paterson and Tim Berry have collectively climbed into the drivers seat of the long-suffering ISP, Froggy.
Voice over IP has reached some major milestones in 2008 in both the enterprise and consumer ends of the market but how long can traditional telcos continue to fight against this disruptive technology?
Yes, says iiNet, and the telco giant's price chains are keeping smaller players from venturing down the rural broadband route.
Telstra Country Wide has announced a AU$231 million investment in 2003/04 to improve services to regional areas.
NetComm have offered a small scale DSLAM designed for hotels, serviced apartments or serviced offices. We found it to be a very robust device which is easy to deploy and manage.
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