Events this week highlighted the differing relationships which telcos have with the nation's former monopoly carrier.
Internet service provider Netspace has delayed the launch of its Internet telephony product due to expanding ambitions to provide a full-service telephone solution.
Domestic telcos are calling for a new dedicated numbering scheme for VoIP services similar to the mobile 04XX range. However there is no agreement about details and a smaller carrier's coalition says such a scheme would be uncompetitive.
Aged-care provider Anglican Homes has replaced a PABX telephone system with a converged voice and data network at two sites as part of a wider project due for completion by the end of 2007.
The federal government today confirmed plans to make only minor tweaks to telecomms regulations to accommodate Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and forecast only low mass-market takeup of the next-generation telephony technology for the next two-three years.
I spent enough time at CeBIT last week to know the telecommunications industry was well represented ... but not always without controversy.
The federal government today confirmed plans to make only minor tweaks to telecomms regulations to accommodate Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and forecast only low mass-market takeup of the next-generation telephony technology for the next two-three years.
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