News (17)

  • Industry welcomes filter policy

    Many in the internet industry have welcomed Communications Minister Stephen Conroy's filter report and his draft legislation to make internet service provider (ISP) level filtering mandatory, with only a few voices criticising the plan.

  • TPG: Don't worry, we're just like Optus

    A spokesperson for Pipe Networks' potential new parent, SP Telemedia, has pointed to Optus as a prime example of how it can successfully operate a wholesale and retail telco.

  • Industry laments loss of Pipe Networks

    Pipe Networks' chief, Bevan Slattery, may have found his "cash-out" door from the company that helped internet service providers snub Telstra, but many of those customers are not happy that a direct competitor could now control it.

  • SP Telemedia to buy Pipe Networks for $373m

    SP Telemedia, owner of TPG and Soul internet service providers, has announced its intention to acquire Pipe Networks for $373 million.

  • Soul and Pipe Networks do deal?

    Pipe Networks and SP Telemedia have both gone into a trading halt this morning, pending announcements to be made later in the week.

More News >

Blogs (1)

  • Read the blog post - Phil Dobbie

    Is wholesale-only backhaul just a pipedream?

    The potential acquisition of Pipe Networks by SP Telemedia has raised the question about whether vertically integrated backhaul providers will mean higher wholesale prices for ISP customers.

Features and Case Studies (3)

  • Pipe Networks sell-out an absolute travesty

    The proposed buyout of Pipe Networks by SP Telemedia is an absolute travesty for Australia's telecommunications industry and will be overwhelmingly negative for customers, Pipe Networks staff, shareholders and the industry as a whole.

  • That other broadband revolution

    While everyone was distracted by the NBN, a revolution was under way in the supply of fixed line broadband.

  • Australia's telco sector ripe for consolidation

    The obvious candidates for consolidation in Australia's telecommunications sector are the 170 internet service providers that are scratching to make a living, but others include Dodo, M8 Telecom, Macquarie Telecom and Eftel.

Create an e-mail alert for "sp telemedia"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
sp telemedia


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

  1. Popularity: 4 aapt
  2. Popularity: 1 agency
  3. Popularity: 3 bevan slattery
  4. Popularity: 2 bosca
  5. Popularity: 8 broadband
  6. Popularity: 1 commerce
  7. Popularity: 1 consolidation
  8. Popularity: 2 della
  9. Popularity: 1 deloitte
  10. Popularity: 1 department
  11. Popularity: 1 det
  12. Popularity: 1 education
  13. Popularity: 1 ferguson
  14. Popularity: 2 filter
  15. Popularity: 2 government
  16. Popularity: 1 iain
  17. Popularity: 1 ibm
  18. Popularity: 5 iinet
  19. Popularity: 2 internode
  20. Popularity: 3 isp
  21. Popularity: 1 isps
  22. Popularity: 1 lenovo
  23. Popularity: 1 m&a
  24. Popularity: 2 merger
  25. Popularity: 1 naked dsl
  26. Popularity: 2 nbn
  27. Popularity: 3 network
  28. Popularity: 4 nsw
  29. Popularity: 1 of
  30. Popularity: 1 oict
  31. Popularity: 3 optus
  32. Popularity: 5 pipe networks
  33. Popularity: 3 primus
  34. Popularity: 1 school
  35. Popularity: 2 slattery
  36. Popularity: 4 soul
  37. Popularity: 2 sp
  38. Popularity: 1 stephen wilson
  39. Popularity: 2 steve baxter
  40. Popularity: 2 telecom nz
  41. Popularity: 2 telecommunications
  42. Popularity: 2 telemedia
  43. Popularity: 1 telephony
  44. Popularity: 4 telstra
  45. Popularity: 2 tender
  46. Popularity: 7 tpg
  47. Popularity: 1 unwired
  48. Popularity: 1 wa
  49. Popularity: 1 westnet
  50. Popularity: 1 wireless

Latest Videos

Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • David Braue Welcome to National Censorship Day
    Conroy's blind adherence to his net filtering plan will abandon Net neutrality ideals and push ISPs down a slippery slope of unprecedented responsibility for a callously politicised Australian Internet.
  • Array That sinking Tcard feeling
    There's something terribly unsettling about realising that the NSW Government is considering hiring a company to build a new electronic ticketing system which has already put it through the legal wringer for the system's predecessor.
  • Array The challenge of government 2.0
    The Government 2.0 Taskforce released its draft report last week, and its recommendations for Open Government almost reads like a manifesto. Stilgherrian's guest on Patch Monday this week is the chair of the Taskforce, Nicholas Gruen.
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured