Telecommunications companies are only now beginning to realise the potential of broadband in the Australian home. As a Home Service Provider, they'll assume the role of housekeeper - keeping check on the day-to-day running of the Internet-enabled house.
Despite having 3G infrastructure already in place in Australia, Nortel Networks are making a big push into Asia to secure the future of its 3G networks.
New Zealand Communications Minister Steven Joyce has given the country's former monopoly telco Telecom NZ an extension on its deadline for overhauling its IT systems to deal with mandated separation of its operations.
TelstraClear is spending around $NZ25 million putting its own equipment into telephone exchanges.
New Zealand's Commerce Commission has decided to launch an investigation into an alleged breach of Telecom New Zealand's separation undertakings by its Wholesale business unit.
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As we know, farmers are such bleaters. They bleat as much as the four-legged woolly things in their paddocks. If it's not the weather, it's the strength of the dollar! Nothing is ever right. Likewise with rural broadband.
Commercial sensitivities ride roughshod over the NZ public's right to be informed.
More details on Telecom's XT network has been revealed, but why can't its wholesale partners have access to it?
The long-awaited launch of New Zealand's newest mobile operator 2degrees took place this morning; but the offering isn't as hot as it could be by a long shot.
The obvious candidates for consolidation in Australia's telecommunications sector are the 170 internet service providers that are scratching to make a living, but others include Dodo, M8 Telecom, Macquarie Telecom and Eftel.
2008 was a cracker year for telco in Australia, with so many huge events happening that those at the beginning of the year have been drowned by the importance of those at the end.
If Pacnet's offer for AAPT is genuine and on the terms laid out in the Reuters story, then Telecom New Zealand chief executive Paul Reynolds ought to agree to the offer as quickly as he can.
For the first time, Kaz chief Mike Foster tells the full story about how the Peter Kazacos' baby was treated within Telstra, and how the deal with Fujitsu went down.
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