Civil rights and online free speech lobby group Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) today criticised the government's internet filtering report, claiming civil rights implications should be the focus rather than the technology's impacts on internet speed and performance.
Mandatory ISP filtering legislation will be introduced around the middle of 2010, after which there will be a one year period to implement and activate the filtering technology.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy today released the highly anticipated results of a test of ISP-based filtering technology, which appeared to show the technology was effective and delivered only negligible speed impact to users, within the parameters set by the communications regulator.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has scheduled a "cyber-safety" announcement at 2pm today in Melbourne in which he is expected to release the results of the live pilot of the government's planned mandatory internet service provider (ISP) filtering scheme.
Telecom New Zealand's recently launched XT mobile service failed across much of the country earlier today.
CSC announced today that it had won a four-year contract with the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) to provide mainframe and network communications services.
At a broadband forum last week, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy called the per-house costing of Tasmania's optic fibre network "bizarre maths".
Tasmania NBN, the arm of the NBN Company that will build and operate the state's wholesale fibre telco, has directly contracted a "active network" equipment supplier, but chief Doug Campbell is staying tight-lipped over its identity.
The Federal Government and NBN Co ditched plans to establish a joint venture operation with Tasmanian state-owned utility, Aurora Energy, because it was delaying the construction of the state's fibre network.
Telstra has not been separated and construction of the NBN on the mainland is still in the pipeline, but today saw Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd kick off a conference that was designed to help Australia understand how 100 megabits per second broadband can be used.
Telstra's battle with the unions is heating up as a second union has called on its 1000 members to strike over the telco's alleged anti-union wage strategy.
Opposition communications spokesman Tony Smith has slammed the federal government for spending more than $500,000 of taxpayers' money on a forum dedicated to Australia's "broadband future".
The Federal Government today released draft legislation to assign a unique healthcare identifier number to every provider and consumer, as agreed to the Coalition of Australian Governments meeting earlier this week.
The Tcard case has gained another party as ERG Group subsidiary ITSL sought today to file an additional counter-claim revolving around lobbyist firm Hawker Britton.
IT and communications services provider, Logicalis, has today announced its plans to acquire network infrastructure services specialists, NetStar.
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