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  • Pipe's Guam cable carries first packets

    Last month, Pipe Network's PPC-1 cable from Sydney to Guam carried its first light. This time, tests run with early customer, Internode, has seen the cable carry its first data packets.

  • IBM joins SKA telescope bid

    Western Australia's International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research has announced a partnership with IBM to manage the data produced by the Square Kilometre Array telescope.

  • Kentz wins $150m Gorgon telco deal

    US oil giant Chevron has awarded a $150 million contract to Irish engineering firm, Kentz, to build telecommunications infrastructure for the Gorgon gas project in Western Australia.

  • NZ Govt details NZ$1.5Bn NBN roll-out

    The New Zealand Government today released the final details of its nationwide NZ$1.5 billion ultra-fast broadband roll-out, saying priority would be given to connecting schools, hospitals, health service providers and homes in new sub-divisions.

  • WA Police extends mobile network

    Western Australia Police has inked a new contract with network hardware supplier Motorola that will see it more than double the size of its radio network and add mobile data capabilities.

  • WA moves to new procurement framework

    Western Australia is transitioning its IT service providers to a new procurement framework so that the old framework can be decommissioned by the end of the year.

  • Vodafone coverage hits 94%

    Vodafone has gone live today with its expanded 3G coverage to rural areas, now reaching 94 per cent of the population.

  • EDS, Accenture win Optus app deal

    HP-owned EDS has won the bulk of a three-year application development and maintenance outsourcing deal with Australia's number two telco, Optus.

  • Full steam ahead for CSG

    Darwin-based IT services group CSG today revealed it had bucked the global financial crisis and rapidly expanded its business in a period that saw some of its rivals suffer headwinds.

  • iiNet reports naked DSL boom

    Western Australian internet service provider iiNet took an extra 47,500 broadband customers over the past year, and also added over 67,000 naked DSL subscribers.

  • Aussie organisations shun Office 2010

    No large Australian organisations are known to be planning an Office 2010 migration, and many have not even completed their move to Office 2007.

  • Massive roll-out: NSW Education picks Win7

    When more than 200,000 student laptops for the Federal Government's Digital Education Revolution go out to NSW schools, they will be running Windows 7 instead of Windows XP as first announced, following a successful trial in three schools.

  • Anxious days ahead as VHA cuts

    Tough decisions and a period of high anxiety lies ahead for Australia's third-largest mobile telco VHA as it determines which suppliers and staff to cut in the coming weeks.

  • Western Power flags smart meter roll-out

    Western Power is looking to install 10,500 smart meters as part of a four-year smart grid trial.

  • UXC, Bilfinger score smart meter deal

    Powercor and CitiPower have announced UXC and Bilfinger Berger Services as field installation partners for their $400 million smart meter roll-out to over a million homes.

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