Telstra today announced that it would make Voice over IP (VoIP) services available to its residential broadband customers next year.
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology may be viewed as a potential redeemer for telecommunications competition by various industry bodies, but veteran analyst Paul Budde said yesterday VoIP may not present as much of a threat to Telstra's dominance as others may think.
The ACT government is in the midst of transferring 12,000 employees from Telstra fixed lines to a voice over Internet protocol service provided by Canberra-based carrier TransACT.
WA-based ISP iiNet has announced plans to launch its naked DSL service later this month.
WA based ISP iiNet has launched its naked DSL service today -- where customers can take broadband without an accompanying phone line -- the first of its kind to be made available on a large scale basis in Australia.
Streaker Robert Ogilvie may have learned the hard way that getting naked can be painful, but many other Australians are apparently learning the same lesson as they try to break ties with Telstra once and for all.
3's bundling of Skype as part of a new services package has the potential to upset the voice monopoly of incumbent fixed-telephony carriers ... if only customers knew about it.
Writing a blog about mobile technology on 28 April almost necessitates holding forth on CDMA shutoff. But if you ask me, there's something far more disruptive happening in the wireless world right now.
A good merger always gets the pulse racing -- and Seven's takeover of Unwired could be shaping up to be one of the most interesting for a while.
With all the excitement over the iPhone, few people have noticed that 1 July was the 11th anniversary of the deregulation of Australia's telecommunications market.
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Telstra is determined to create new sources of revenue by investing in new IP infrastructure and building managed offerings around the integration of infrastructure and services. This means turning the company into a new kind of business -- with major implications for the whole economy.
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.
Australia's competition regulator has warned it will act to ensure technological innovations that pose a serious threat to Telstra's dominance of the telecommunications sector are not "strangled at birth".
Telstra's negotiation with Optus for cheaper wholesale copper network access was an exercise in protecting its assets, said veteran telecommunications analyst Paul Budde, who claimed the deal would actually lessen competition.
This is a full-featured home or small business ADSL router that'll comfortably handle all your broadband needs, including Wi-Fi, VoIP and ADSL2+. But don't expect it to be an easy task to set up the advanced features.
NetComm Turbo 7 Series Wireless Gateway provides an easy set-up, good coverage and modest speed. While this system gives you the advantage of portable wireless gateway, wireless services are less reliable and cannot match ADSL2 speeds.
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