The nation's number two telco Optus today said it might consider compensating some businesses for the loss of mobile, landline and internet services yesterday.
Optus plans to launch a new wireless e-mail service aimed at the business market, based on the i-mate K-Jam handset and Microsoft Exchange 2003.
Vodafone has launched an online store where Australians can choose their pricing plan and buy their 3G Apple iPhone right now.
When e-mail from Optus customers started getting blocked by other Internet service providers last week, the company turned to its biggest rival for assistance.
Telstra will disclose thousands of its execs' private e-mails in the ongoing legal scrap between the telco and the Federal Communications Minister.
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3's bundling of Skype as part of a new services package has the potential to upset the voice monopoly of incumbent fixed-telephony carriers ... if only customers knew about it.
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.
Last week, a family friend rang for some technical help. "Telstra sold me this wireless Internet service and they promised it would work both at my home and at my office," he said. Said home is in the Melbourne CBD, and said office is in Kyneton, a lovely town about an hour away from Melbourne.
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Industry analysts are always predicting what will happen in the future. David Braue went back in time five years to see how analysts expected the mobile comms market to evolve, and then compared it to what actually happened.
Optus has launched its first product developed collaboratively with other members of the SingTel group and indicated future products will be developed in the same way to give Optus an edge over local rivals.
CeBIT Australia is back for 2005 in Sydney from Tuesday to Thursday this week at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour.
Optus has defended its decision to enter the MMS market in the face of a report claiming current analyst predictions of market size are wildly inflated.
While parts of the iPhone 3G are superb, there are still some big features missing from this device. If you add up the extras the iPhone doesn't seem like a phone that everyone can afford.
While parts of the iPhone 3G are superb, there are still some big features missing from this device. If you add up the extras the iPhone doesn't seem like a phone that everyone can afford.
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