Optus has spent $103 million over the past three months bolstering its 3G network to support the one product category showing significant growth prepaid.
TelstraClear is spending around $NZ25 million putting its own equipment into telephone exchanges.
Telstra chief financial officer John Stanhope has said, subject to three key conditions, structural separation could benefit shareholders.
Opinions are split amongst analysts, telcos and ISPs as to whether Pipe's new PPC-1 Sydney to Guam submarine cable will lead to lower broadband prices for Australians, but all agree the threat of its arrival, set for October, has had a positive impact already.
Telstra today launched an appeal in Federal Court to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's April rejection of its $30 per month wholesale undertaking for Unconditional Local Loop Services over the telco's copper network.
One year into its tenure, how has the new New Zealand Government performed on issues of technology and telecommunications?
Smack down: it seems the Independent Oversight Group (IOG) set up to keep an eye on Telecom NZ's regulatory undertakings as part of the operational separation of its business takes its task seriously.
Telecom New Zealand yesterday launched its new XT 3G mobile network at a ritzy event in Auckland. But the network hasn't gone live yet, which is likely due to new hardware being installed to curb interference that is causing rival Vodafone a headache.
The vision of the future BT portrayed this week at an Australian conference was so far removed from how Telstra's David Quilty has described the British telco that I wonder if they were talking about the same UK.
We've all experienced that irritating feeling upon walking into a nearly empty restaurant, only to see little 'reserved' signs on the empty tables, and to be told by the matre d' that no tables are available even as other people enter and are escorted to their tables.
While everyone was distracted by the NBN, a revolution was under way in the supply of fixed line broadband.
Since last November when iiNet very loudly launched its naked DSL product, "naked" has been on everybody's lips, and it seemed like everybody was in on it. Some, however have held out. This round-up of 13 ISPs looks into who's got it, who doesn't and who wants to.
If the world's homes are to enjoy the same high speed connectivity as its offices, the current thinking goes, then fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) will soon become necessary. However, not all Internet economies were created equal.
Ovum's David Kennedy says Australia can have a world-leading telecommunications regime if it wants one.
The increasing popularity of IP telephony is a big worry for local telcos, but not all the pieces are in place for Australia to take full advantage.
Microsoft will begin selling its directory technology as a standalone product separate from the Windows operating system.
Windows XP may be necessary for 64-bit computing in the future, but do you need it now? Analysts discuss when enterprises should upgrade, at what pace, and what the alternatives are.
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