Supermarket clearance chain Not Quite Retail (NQR) finally decided to ditch dial-up internet for its chain of 26 stores and headquarters in March, instead signing up for an Ethernet WAN connection from Uecomm.
A "hardware issue" has caused some Uecomm internet services in Brisbane to experience packet loss and latency.
Huge share price falls amidst some of Australia's largest IT companies over the past few weeks have fuelled speculation about whether the industry could be about to face some degree of merger and acquisition activity.
Two of the fastest-growing and most acquisitive IT services companies in Australia today showed little interest in buying up all or pieces of failed rival Commander, which passed into the hands of administrators last week.
The parent company of fashion labels Marcs, Morrissey, Jigsaw and David Lawrence, has ditched dial-up for a countrywide 512kbps WAN, which has allowed it to deploy VoIP and track its inventory in real-time.
Let's not go back to the bad old days where telco and vendor incumbents were unchallenged.
The leaders of Australia's ICT industry are currently in a state of panic over the debatable prospect of an economic downturn in the sector and are going too far with cutting jobs.
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