Internet service provider Datafast, in partnership with Aurora Energy and hardware vendor Mitsubishi Electric, today kicked off a 12Mbps broadband over power line service in Hobart, which the company claims is the world's first large-scale commercial trial.
Aurora Energy has decided to withdraw from a three-year-old broadband-over-powerline experiment as a result of cost pressures.
ISP Netspace has joined the rush to provide high-speed ADSL2+ broadband around the nation.
Incumbent telecommunications suppliers Telstra and Optus have been put on notice as the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) plans to unleash a tender for AU$4.5 million worth of telco services and products.
The launch of a commercial trial of a new optical fibre to the home (FTTH) service in Tasmania is likely to take place in the closing months of this year, some 12 months after an initial date specified by the state's government.
If there's fibre running to the node down my street by the end of 2009, I'll eat my own shoes with mustard sauce.
It seemed like a good idea at the time, but Australian utilities' recent abandonment of broadband over powerline (BPL) technology has all but sealed the fate of a technology that was once hoped to bring high-speed data to every corner of Australia.
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While most hopes for permanent wireless data connection lay with the new GPRS mobile phone network, one company is already offering a similar service to Australian owners of Palm V series PDAs and IBM WorkPads. Global Wireless Application Service Provider, dotWAP provides an 'always-online' wireless connection through a Neo1 sled modem operating over United Wireless' Mobitex packet-switched network.
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