The business arm of telecommunications provider Optus ended the fourth quarter of 2006 on a high, notching wins with the federal Attorney-General's Department, Network Ten and Suncorp Metway.
The nation's number two telco Optus today outlined a number of new and renewed enterprise customer wins as part of its quarterly financial results statement.
Western Power subsidiary Bright Telecommunications is ramping up its search for equity partners as it plans to expand its Perth optical fibre network to further homes and businesses.
A group of telcos led by local broadband evangelist Paul Budde is pushing ahead with plans to link its combined infrastructure to form a national network for the purposes of providing high-speed broadband to regional areas.
Data centre and telco traffic peering specialist Equinix has extended network links to Melbourne and Brisbane, enabling organisations to connect back to its Sydney data centre.
Optus has appointed a new managing director for its Optus Business division, promoting John Simon as the man to lead its growing services arm.
High-speed ADSL2 services are transient and will be ground under the wireless broadband heel, reckon two industry veterans who have put their money where their mouths are. But ADSL2 vendor iiNet has a different perspective.
A new Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) product and a strategic acquisition are in the near future for business-focused wireless broadband company Access Providers.
Perth-based Internet service provider (ISP) Amcom Telecommunications has announced a range of 'up to 8Mbps' ADSL plans designed to exploit the DSLAM rollout it outlined last year.
Business communications specialist Equant announced today that it will team up with Queensland electricity provider Ergon Energy to provide managed communications infrastructure services to BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA), in a deal worth $20 million.
Junior telecommunications company Uecomm has lauded the "quality of business" recorded over the last two years as validating a takeover bid made by SingTel Optus last Friday.
SingTel Optus will make an off-market offer to acquire corporate telecommunications provider Uecomm from utility Alinta for a total net consideration of AU$226.8 million, the telecommunications company said this morning.
Small Internet service providers attract customers through their personalised service and support, lower prices and in some cases availability, but can lose out to the complex, finely-tuned systems set up by the larger telecommunications companies.
Australian Uecomm customers were frustrated by two hours of intermittent service today, as malicious hackers flooded the network with spurious traffic.
Australian customers of Sprint International are battling a 58 hour outage in their International Private Line and frame relay services.
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