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News (9)

• First upgrade on Southern Cross Cable complete

  The first stage of an upgrade of the submarine Southern Cross Cable linking New Zealand and Australia to the United States has added 260Gbps.

• Telstra to build US fibre link

  The nation's largest telco Telstra today said it would build a new submarine fibre telecommunications cable between Australia and Hawaii.

• NAB floats denial-of-service threats to the cloud

  Thanks to bots and the rise of financially-driven cybercrime, the menace of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are too real to ignore -- defending against such attacks however is driving collaboration between ISPs and top tier telcos to push security to the cloud.

• Pipe's Guam cable: What does it mean?

  Opinions are split amongst analysts, telcos and ISPs as to whether Pipe's new PPC-1 Sydney to Guam submarine cable will lead to lower broadband prices for Australians, but all agree the threat of its arrival, set for October, has had a positive impact already.

• AAPT wants Optus reined in too

  AAPT chief executive Paul Broad has called on the government to boost the competition regulator's power to rein in both Telstra and Optus from moves he claimed were stifling competition in the fixed line and broadband markets.

Blogs (6)

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  Telco revenues: part two

  Great to see so many constructive comments on here definitely a case of the facts speaking for themselves.

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  Is your telco taking security seriously? It should be

  It wasn't too long ago that vendors still made a lot of their money through equipment markups. Telcos were the same, with comfortable profit on ISDN, STD calls, calls to mobiles and other heavily used services padding out financial reports.

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  Telco revenues: my facts, your opinions

  I don't think I'm stepping out of line when I say that every good analysis combines facts and opinion.

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  From show pony to dead horse

  Telstra's 21Mbps Next-G boost and Internode's new 100Mbps FttH networks may be both companies' show ponies, but when it comes to helping most of us, their need-for-speed posturing is just a box-and-dice distraction that we've all seen before.

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  Conroy faces a showdown at the FTTN corral

  Say what you will about Senator Stephen Conroy, but he is clearly not a man afraid of confrontation. Well, he'd better not be, because by killing off the OPEL WiMax project he has just set himself up for a battle with Telstra of Biblical proportions or a big meal of crow washed down with a $4.7 billion gift to SingTel Optus.

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