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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.
Optus CIO Lawrie Turner talks about how the telco uses mobile computing internally.
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