Optus has spent $103 million over the past three months bolstering its 3G network to support the one product category showing significant growth prepaid.
South Australian internet service provider, Adam Internet, has turned on its first WiMax tower, an effort its chieftain Scott Hicks described as a "minor miracle".
The New Zealand Government is considering plans to use analog TV frequencies to provide wireless broadband to rural areas, Communications Minister Steven Joyce told the Korea Australia New Zealand (KANZ) Broadband Summit in Auckland yesterday.
Telstra has flagged price reductions for its broadband products and services as it fights to maintain market share in the highly competitive sector.
The coalition will oppose the federal government's telecommunications reforms, introduced as part of its plan to build the $43 billion national broadband network (NBN).
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Last year I opined that, even if Telstra did launch Apple's iPhone 3G, conflicting goals meant it couldn't afford to seriously back the product. This year, Telstra proved me right, and the reason is simple: Australia's biggest telco just wants to be a Mac.
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Although 3G phones have been around for years, it appears the iPhone 3G has successfully rewritten the rules of competition in Australia's mobile sector whetting the nation's appetite for data.
Optus is now offering its wireless broadband plans cheaper, but only for the first 12 months.
The early signs aren't that promising if the Rudd Government wants to get the private sector to invest in its new $43 billion National Broadband Network.
With real risks and real competition, Malcolm Turnbull, questions the Prime Minister's promise of an affordable, high-speed broadband at a speed of 100 megabits a second to 90 per cent of Australian households via a $43 billion fibre-to-the-household network.
Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo's successor will need to make conciliatory gestures towards the government and reconsider the company's strategy to remain relevant, analysts have concluded in the wake of this morning's announcement that Trujillo will depart the company on June 30.
It is clear that Trujillo's frenetic period at the helm of Telstra is drawing to a close and he is likely to be gone (of his own volition) before the end of the year.
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The NC10 betters previous Samsung netbooks with a built-in HSDPA SIM card reader and the portability this provides. Optus wireless broadband bundles seem like excellent value.
The hardware performs its part of the equation just fine, but if you're considering Optus' wireless broadband make sure you take advantage of its seven-day trial period.
While claiming a record-setting theoretical maximum speed of 21Mbps, the Telstra Turbo 21 mobile broadband modem will most likely deliver download speeds ranging from 550Kbps to 8Mbps in practice.
The Optus USB modem works as advertised, but fluctuations in service and a few software bugs have hampered our experience during testing.
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