An Internet association in Western Australia claims that the number of new accounts for Internet service providers has dropped as a result of Telstra's broadband price cut in February.
Satellite broadband ISP Access 1 suddenly closed down last Friday, leaving its customers less than eight hours to find alternative Internet access.
PlanetMirror co-founder Jason Andrades has hit back at criticisms from the broadband community its new premium download service is overpriced, but does concede the market for the product is "difficult and evolutionary".
As Yahoo in the US gears up for the introduction of a high-speed Internet service with telco giant SBC Communications, the portal's Australian arm is keeping its eyes open for similar revenue diversification opportunities.
Optus this morning announced it would offer naked DSL broadband plans, as well as broadband offerings provided on a "month-to-month" basis.
Internet service provider TPG has revealed it's toying with offering users unbundled ADSL2+ without the need for a Telstra line.
Internet service provider (ISP) iiNet will invest a further AU$15 million into expanding its ADSL2+ network which should increase its coverage to 90 percent of metropolitan Australia, the ISP announced today.
Internet service provider Pacific Internet has added Optus to its list of DSL wholesalers, citing increased demand for its high-availability plans.
In a bid to grab a larger slice of the business DSL pie, Pacific Internet is now offering unlimited data transfer between two or more sites hooked up to its network.
Rural and regional Australians are still out in the cold despite the fact Australia's DSL market shake-up last year prompted independent carriers to install more than 70,000 ports of ADSL infrastructure.
In response to broadband's recent bashing, an industry representative defends DSL saying the -technology is solid", it's the network provider and the way in which it is delivered that should be in doubt.
Pacific Internet has released a Premium Business DSL plan with a 99.9 percent service level agreement-but you have to pay for it.
The number of businesses deploying DSL has almost doubled in the last year, and nine out of ten customers are happy with their ISP, according to a survey by IDC.
Business-focused Internet service provider Pacific Internet will move its Sydney data centre to hosting specialist Global Switch's Ultimo facility in a process starting February and expected to complete midway through 2006.
Optus has launched its new ADSL2+ broadband network, offering speeds of up to 20Mbps -- 4Mbps short of what other providers claim is the limit of the technology.
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