Singapore Telecommunications-owned telecommunications player Optus has won an AU$50.5 million extension to a contract to supply voice and data services to a group of federal government bodies.
Hutchison Telecommunications (Australia) said today it had recorded an after-tax net loss of AU$280 million for the first half of 2004, but backed the performance of its core mobile businesses in an intensely competitive telecommunications environment.
Macquarie Corporate Telecommunications' (MCT) frame-relay service customers enjoyed a long lunch today as a configuration corruption in one of its network switches forced an hour-and-a-half outage.
Telstra has secured an AU$2.3 million, three-year contract to manage the voice, mobile and data telecommunications requirements of independent regional airline Regional Express (Rex).
Senator Helen Coonan, the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, is to examine the adequacy of the current telecommunications regulatory regime as the government prepares a scoping study into the sale of its remaining shares in Telstra.
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If there ever were concrete evidence that Labor is blowing smoke up the proverbials of the Australian population, it came earlier this month as Senator Stephen Conroy, the man charged with promoting Labor's fibre-everywhere policy while simultaneously taking potshots at his counterpart Senator Helen Coonan, put his foot squarely in his mouth.
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The federal Attorney General, Philip Ruddock, has introduced amendments to federal parliament that would ease police access to stored voice-mails, e-mails and text messages.
Vodafone Australia has signed a deal for an Internet protocol data network solution to boost the resilience and efficiency with which the telecommunications provider can provide third-generation mobile services from next year.
Antivirus guru Eugene Kaspersky says the lure of fame and fortune have resulted in a higher number of criminal activity on the Internet.
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