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13/11/2019
Telcos Join Mile High Club
Australian broadband juggernaut Telstra has released plans to provide high-speed wireless broadband services to consumers on flights across Australia by late 2015. At the beginning of last week, Telstra’s Executive Director of Networks in Telstra Operations Mike Wright stated on the Telstra News Blog that the telco has “constructed four dedicated
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13/11/2019
Telstra Launches New Bundling Options for Belong
Late in 2013, telecom giant Telstra quietly lit the fuse on a new streamlined, low-cost internet service provider via their new “Belong” brand. Since last October, Belong has been offering no-contract broadband solutions in the Sydney region, and has recently expanded across Australia. Telstra has had a low-cost alternative in the works for some
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13/11/2019
North Korea invests in Broadband...and Nuclear Weapons
As we all know, the world's token crazy country (North Korea) is embarking on war against the United States as a symbol of market capitalism. The whole world is watching and taking this threat somewhat seriously because North Korea is nuclear capable. What fewer people know is that aside from bombs, the Kim's have also been investing in a national
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13/11/2019
Telstra to trial P2P throttling
The Fairfax Press have reported that Telstra, Australia’s largest telecommunications and broadband provider, will begin a trial to slow down internet traffic over Peer to Peer networks, making this the clearest and most impressive leap forward yet for those looking to stamp down copyright infringing downloads. The trial will start from today in
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12/11/2019
Optus 4G trials record 70Mbps speeds
Australian IT site Delimiter has reported that Optus have successfully carried out trials for 4G mobile and data services on the 700MHz band, previously used for analogue TV transmission. Speeds recorded during the trials exceeded 70Mbps- 3x times faster than even the fastest ADSL connection, and approaching the maximum speed of most fibre-optic
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11/11/2019
Mail Delivery issue hits BigPond users
Telstra is investigating an outage affecting hundreds of email addresses on the BigPond network today, according to a report from Australian website ITNews. E-mails to the @bigpond.com addresses are bouncing back to senders with a failed delivery notification. The issue appears to be linked to a Telstra server accidentally being placed on a spam
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1/10/2019
Google Duplex Passes the Turing Test
If you're interested in internet news and artificial intelligence, you may like to know that like the MIT algorithm and the Facebook CEO Bot before it, Google Duplex has successfully passed the Turing Test. You may have seen the video going around of the new Google Duplex software calling up a salon to book an appointment for a haircut, fooling the
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16/01/2019
World prepares for new data protection rules
Europe's new General Data Protection Regulation (or GDPR for short) has got many curious about how it will effect the "world wide" parts of the web. The throughly revised regulations, that are effective as of May 25th (or today at the time of writing this), are all about protecting your data and your privacy. For the average consumer, it's a good
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16/01/2019
Will net neutrality repeal reach Australia?
Net neutrality - the lingering bastion that was ensuring that internet service providers treat all data the same and not discriminate or charge differnetly by user, websire or application - has successfuly been burnt to the bloody ground by the Federal Communications Commisions (or FCC) of the United States. The rules that stipulated that internet
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16/01/2019
Cut cable leaves thousands without internet
Thousands of Sydney-siders were left without internet after a cable was cut. After a construction crew accidentally cut an integral Telstra cable whilst working in the north shore suburb of Chatswood, internet users all across New South Wales found themselves in the midst of a major internet outage.  According to a spokesman for Telstra, the fibre
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16/01/2019
NBN Clarifies Its Statement on Gamers
Attending a recent parliamentary hearing in Sydney, NBN Co Chief Bill Morrow stated that "while people are gaming it is a high bandwidth requirement that is a steady streaming process". His comments, as reported by The Guardian and the ABC, categorized the gamer as a type of "extreme user". When later asked if he thought gamers were in responsible
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7/03/2018
Telstra upgrading speeds for NBN customers
Telstra has made the decision to upgrade all their customers on their lowest NBN bundle to 50/20 Mps up from the 25/5 Mps essentially doubling up the standard speed.   Bring on the 4K Netflix!   The 25/5 Mps deals were the most popular NBN deals in Australia according to NBN Co.   Telstra CEO Andy Penn stated at the Telstra Investor Day,
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