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  • Optus in wide-scale DSL rollout

    Optus this morning announced a AU$150 million rollout of its own broadband Internet digital subscriber line (DSL) equipment to hundreds of exchanges around Australia.

  • Pacific Internet, NEC partner for DSL rollout

    Australian businesses will have greater broadband choice from June 2002, following an agreement signed by Pacific Internet and NEC Australia.

  • The Looking Glass world of telco deregulation

    Around the globe monopoly or near-monopoly markets are beating competitive ones in the broadband roll out race. Isn't that exactly the opposite of what we were told would happen?

  • Yahoo Australia in talks with ISPs over DSL roll-out

    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.

  • SA unis' fibre to be used for DSL

    Perth-based carrier Amcom has been awarded a 20-year contract to build and maintain a fibre-optic network to connect South Australia's higher education facilities, but will also use the rollout to further its own DSL plans.

  • Sydney DSLAM rollout for iiNet

    Internet service provider iiNet has announced plans to roll out DSLAMs into an additional 111 exchanges, of which 86 will be in Sydney. And competitor Netspace has just released a whole new range of unlimited plans.

  • TPG ponders naked DSL

    Internet service provider TPG has revealed it's toying with offering users unbundled ADSL2+ without the need for a Telstra line.

  • ADSL2+ a tad slower at Optus

    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.

  • DSLAM takeup slamming, but bush still waiting

    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.

  • Primus releases 6Mbps broadband offering

    Primus Telecom has today launched a new DSL broadband Internet service claimed to deliver high speed services at up to 6Mbps.

  • Let the broadband price war begin

    Australia's second largest telco Cable & Wireless Optus has announced its rollout of wholesale DSL to business customers throughout the country, which one industry expert believes is the beginning of a price war as fierce as that of the mobile phone market.

  • Broadband technologies vie for dominance

    Cisco says Metro Ethernet is the future of broadband. Rubbish, says Alcatel, celebrating its 20 millionth DSL line

  • AU$2 billion to replace pair gain unnecessary: Telstra

    Telstra has revealed the cost of replacing the pair gain technology that has caused so much anguish throughout Australia would hit AU$2 billion, according to the Opposition.

  • Superfast DSL shows its pace

    Today's broadband could be relegated to slowcoach status as next-generation chips get ready to rumble - but only for townies.

  • Telstra broadband upgrade draws mixed reaction

    The Federal Government has welcomed a AU$10 million investment into regional broadband by Telstra, saying it addressed a number of concerns raised by a recent inquiry into telecommunications services to rural and regional Australia.

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