Broadband providers Internode and iiNet have hit out against the Federal government's ISP-level content filtering initiative a scheme that could cripple Australia's high-speed internet access, according to one exec.
Bound by red tape and with its push for relief appearing to fall on deaf ears in Canberra, Telstra today pumped up its campaign to win over the grassroots by launching a new Web site promoting its messages -- with blogging a key feature.
The nation's second-largest telco today said it will fight "until the last breath" Telstra's desire to lock competitors out of using its planned fibre-optic broadband network.
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Melbourne-based Internet Service Provider Pacific Internet is launching a residential ASDL service, HomeDSL, and claims the focus is on ‘flexibility’.
The men running Telstra have been accused of a lot of things, but lack of conviction is definitely not one of them. I found this out recently after having the chance to hear Phil Burgess, the company's most senior regular spokesperson and an outspoken critic of the government's telecommunications policy, address an AIIA-sponsored business lunch in Melbourne.
After the government threw its hat in the ring over WiMax, friends and foes of the technology have been frothing at the mouth to deliver a natty sound bite on why the standard is the wireless equivalent of a cold sore or the saviour of all things broadband. Vodafone has now announced it's sleeping with enemy and joining the WiMax Forum. Who's the winner here?
I spent enough time at CeBIT last week to know the telecommunications industry was well represented ... but not always without controversy.
The last time I used a payphone was back in the summer of 2001.
The leaders of three of Australia's largest ISP's have declared the Net neutrality debate as solely a US problem and further, that the nation that pioneered the internet might want to study the Australian market for clues as to how to solve the dilemma.
There's been a lot of talk about network convergence, the idea that data, voice and video traffic will one day travel over a single network. In this special report, we look at how Mount Erin Secondary College is tackling convergence and IP telephony goals at footy club the West Coast Eagles.
The Australian Labor Party's ICT shadow minister wants a national fibre broadband network and enough skilled people to exploit it.
With the Australian debut of Apple's iTunes Music Store today, we answer the questions of iPod owners around the country.
Technology is allowing workers to stay in contact no matter where they are. How do you choose the right combination of hardware, software, data transport, and voice transport, then secure the whole lot and make sure your organisation is set up to take advantage?
Tradies interested in Telstra's "tradesman's" phone may have to toss away a hammer to make room for the F158 in their toolboxes.
The broadband business -- plans, peaks, and penalties -- can be confusing to say the least. We line up some of Australia's best.
The new wave of hybrid PDA business phones are here. The gadget gurus from RMIT decide who talks the talk.
OrangeOne is taking advantage of its new CDMA network in Sydney and Melbourne to offer subscribers a mobile handset that is treated as a fixed handset when operated in its LocalZone. One world, one phone?
The Internet is in the process of taking over our lives, so if you aren't connected, maybe it is time you were.
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