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  • Strong AAPT still faces challenges

    AAPT has posted strong first quarter earnings but its New Zealand owner predicts weaker performances ahead as the Australian telco continues to "reinvent" itself.

  • Oz Pirate Party slams 'secret' IP talks

    The newly formed Australian Pirate Party came out swinging yesterday with a release criticising the international discussions currently being held in Korea to cement an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.

  • Govt reveals Dec broadband forum

    The Federal Government today revealed it had organised what it described as a "major forum" on the future of Australia's digital economy in the wake of the construction of the National Broadband Network.

  • Telstra launches new blogging site

    Putting the troubled history of its nowwearetalking website behind it, Telstra has re-launched its efforts to communicate with customers and stakeholders online, focused on a new blogging site dubbed "Telstra Exchange".

  • Telstra workers to strike from Friday

    Telstra workers will strike after negotiations with the company's management over enterprise bargaining agreements reached a deadlock, its main union said today.

  • Telstra dumps paper admin fee

    Telstra has dumped its controversial $2.20 administration fee for people paying their bills over the counter or by mail less than two months after it was introduced.

  • Survey debunks broadband productivity gains

    A NZ government-funded survey has raised questions about the productivity gains to be made from providing fast internet access.

  • AFACT attacks Westnet piracy policy

    iiNet managing director Michael Malone today denied that cancelling iiNet subsidiary Westnet's policy to forward copyright breach notifications was designed to be obstructive to copyright holders.

  • Visa Australia kills signatures by 2013

    Visa Australia said today it was moving to chip and PIN technology for all of its credit cards, with signature transactions to be banned by April 2013.

  • iiNet continues rural DSLAM rollout

    Internet service provider iiNet is on track to boost its market share of fixed broadband customers by installing its network infrastructure into eight new regional communities.

  • ICANN gives non-Latin scripts the nod

    ICANN, the nonprofit body that oversees internet addresses has approved the use of Hebrew, Hindi, Korean and other scripts not based on the Latin alphabet in a decision that could make the web dramatically more inclusive.

  • ANZ boosts offshore jobs, IT spend

    Australia and New Zealand Banking Group chief executive Mike Smith said today he'd look to harbour more of its operations offshore in the future as he also discussed details of the bank's beefed up technology spend.

  • Conroy wins battle for Telco Bill debate

    Minister for Communications Stephen Conroy has won the support of the Greens, independent Nick Xenophon and Family First's Steven Fielding to have the government's telecommunications reform legislation debated before the end of the year.

  • TelstraClear earmarks $20m exchange spend

    TelstraClear is spending around $NZ25 million putting its own equipment into telephone exchanges.

  • Telco complaints jump 54 per cent

    Complaints against the telecommunications industry rose a whopping 54 per cent in the 2008/09 financial year, prompting the industry ombudsman to issue a warning to business and consumers.

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