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  • Aussie ISPs have content ambitions

    Executives from several of Australia's largest internet service providers have over the past few months expressed their desire to become media companies in their own right.

  • Staff cuts come as Telstra commences network upgrades

    Telstra cut around 1,000 full-time staff positions in the six months from June 30 last year and has commenced the network buildouts it announced in November.

  • Telstra to slash tech costs under review

    Telstra plans to slash the number of network platforms and business and operational support systems it uses under a new -one factory" approach to managing its operations.

  • Telstra goes soft with Melbourne VoIP trial

    Telstra has kicked off trials of a VoIP service in Melbourne using Softswitch technology, a platform that has been designed to provide complex packet-based telephone services over a regular broadband Internet connection.

  • Telstra prepares wireless, broadband, IP services assault

    Telstra plans to respond in a "measured way" to the competitive threat posed by voice over Internet protocol services, with the maximum net revenue effect on the carrier over the next 18 to 24 months "unlikely to be material" to its traditional voice revenues, senior Telstra executive Ted Pretty said today.

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  • Aussie ISPs have content ambitions

    Executives from several of Australia's largest internet service providers have over the past few months expressed their desire to become media companies in their own right.

  • Cisco: Still hot or not?

    CTO Charles Giancarlo wants to prove wrong the critics who say Cisco has lost the drive that turned it into a 1990s superstar.

  • VoIP needs a reality check

    Consultant Fred Goldstein believes conventional wisdom on voice over Internet Protocol overtaking traditional phone networks needs rethinking.

  • VoIP threatens to outsmart backend

    As cable and telephone companies begin offering Net telephony services to consumers in earnest, complications on the back end threaten to crimp cost savings for providers and ultimately dampen expectations for the much-hyped technology.

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