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TPG, Australia’s 3rd or 4th largest telco (depending on which statistic you use), has usually kept quiet when Telstra has made a move that upsets other competitors. But their latest public release to the Australian Competition and Consumer Comm...
read more...27/01/2012 03:00 PM
Communications minister Senator Steven Conroy announced yesterday that Telstra would be opening up its new fibre optic network in South Brisbane for wholesale. The news may come as welcome, albeit grudging, relief to other Internet Service Providers ...
read more...25/01/2012 04:35 PM
With a company as big as Telstra, it’s hard to gauge where its heart is. On the one hand, Telstra has begun a rollout of their 4G mobile broadband network, offering speeds of 40mbps in the inner city, negating the need for fixed line services. ...
read more...25/01/2012 02:03 PM
Australian site itNews has reported that internet service report Dodo experienced an outage overnight, with customers experiencing widespread intermittent connections and outages in NSW, ACT and Queensland. Eftel CEO Scott Stavretis attributed the ou...
read more...25/01/2012 12:31 PM
Apple’s new iTunes U app heralds a dramatic change in the world’s approach to education. Announced on Friday, the new app will allow students across the world to access university courses from Harvard, Stanford, Duke, and Oxbridge for fre...
read more...20/01/2012 05:19 PM
The list of holdouts for the latest NBN agreement is growing smaller by the day, with The Australian reporting Optus as the latest big service provider to sign on.
The latest agreement, to cover the next 12 months, will move the National Broadband N...
read more...20/01/2012 04:05 PM
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read more...20/01/2012 12:04 PM
NBN Co chief Mike Quigley has responded to recent protests over the installation of LTE Mobile broadband towers in regional centres today, by advising that the alternative is satellite and not fibre optic, according to the Fairfax Press.
''We really...
read more...19/01/2012 03:35 PM
The word ‘smart’ gets bandied about a lot these days. Smart phones, smart fridges, smart home theatre systems. Smart usually just means internet-connectable, with some type of user interface allowing the user to download content or progra...
read more...19/01/2012 11:28 AM
Internet companies across the world have set June 6 2012 as the switchover day from IPv4 to IPv6, while Internode has decided not to wait and has made IPv6 available to all customers.IP (Internet Protocol) addresses are the numerical addresses used t...
read more...18/01/2012 04:56 PM
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