With regional Australia continuing to protest federal government plans to privatise the remainder of Telstra, the telecommunications heavyweight has boosted efforts to appease residents in the remote west.
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Protests over Telstra's new broadband deals continued as the Western Australian Internet Association (WAIA) expressed their outrage, saying Telstra has delivered a "devastating blow" to competition in the Internet industry.
Customers of Australian ISP, iiNet, faced a five hour service outage last night reportedly caused by an electrical storm.
Singapore Telecommunications and its Australian subsidiary, Optus, have terminated an Internet peering arrangement with the Western Australian Internet Association's WAIX exchange, citing "a global network consolidation plan".
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Telstra has unveiled an upgrade to its Next G mobile high-speed data network that it claims has delivered download speeds of up to 2.3Mbps at a range of 200km.
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