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As a long term project bogged down in bureaucracy and political arguments, it's difficult to provide any sort of fixed timeline for NBN updates. For many weeks of the year, the NBN is all but invisible, with the only sign of its existence the technic...
read more...17/07/2012 11:38 AM
We live in a technological age and sometimes the youngest generations seem to navigate it most instinctively. Teenagers without mobile phones in pocket if not in hand are almost unheard of these days, and new research and just general observation can...
read more...10/07/2012 05:21 PM
To try and get a broadband connection right now is a maddening game of cat and mouse. If you’re in a regional or rural area, you can be guaranteed a run-around of epic proportions, with each service provider wanting money upfront and two weeks ...
read more...09/07/2012 07:02 PM
High-speed National Broadband Network (NBN) connections outside metro areas could encourage people to move from the city to regional towns, according to a poll.Broadband comparison website Compare Broadband asked visitors “Would an NBN high spe...
read more...06/07/2012 10:57 AM
Communications have always been a focus of trailblazing research, given that it’s one of the most immediately applicable fields of applied physics. Edison, Marconi, Hertz – they all knew where the money was. Einstein, alas, had to make do...
read more...04/07/2012 01:45 PM
Slowly, the wheels are turning in the tech world. For 5 years Apple has been on an ascent that can hardly be believed - leapfrogging over Microsoft to become the world's largest tech firm, and then approaching ExxonMobil levels of corporate dominatio...
read more...28/06/2012 04:40 PM
Australians love a holiday – and, as is becoming increasingly clear, we love the internet. Surely these are two great tastes that will taste great together?These days an internet connection may be as essential on your list of what to take on ho...
read more...27/06/2012 02:33 PM
The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) has been around for 20 years, serving as an independent adjudicator for those situations when you and your telco can’t come to an agreement.
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read more...22/06/2012 03:39 PM
It can be incredibly frustrating to find a great ADSL2+ plan, call up to get it, and then get loaded down by a whole new bunch of costs: connection fees and modem costs and sometimes months of fees in advance, making your $50 a month plan suddenly ne...
read more...20/06/2012 03:39 PM
A new report commissioned by IT vendor IBM has found that Australia may be generating $1 trillion in revenue by 2050, mostly through the availability of high-speed broadband. IBM reports that "the ubiquitous adoption of very high-speed broadban...
read more...19/06/2012 03:15 PM
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