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The Federal Government has announced six 'blackspot' regions that will be listed for broadband backhaul builds come September this year. Communications minister Stephen Conroy has called for submissions from Tenders with the successful applicant...
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Telstra have announced an uplink speed increase of up to 5.8Mbps for their Next G network. The new speed is theoretical with real time achievable speeds expected to hover between 300kbps - 3Mbps. Even these speeds will only be obtainable by customers...
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The expansion of broadband services in Australia continues to rise as does Australia's position in the World Broadband Rankings which now sees our nation coming at 11th (out of 58 nations) with a 72 percent take up in Australian households. The WBR...
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The ongoing Federal Court saga of AFACT vs. the peoples ISP republic of iiNet, is gaining momentum as accusations of 'on a fishing exercise' and 'an attempt to gain political mileage' are being thrown back and fourth across the courtroom...
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Buying a house, or building a new house for that matter, can be an exciting venture and at the same time, a pain in the right old bleeding if you haven't prepared enough. This is not to mention the potential headache around broadband availability...
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When an executive from a leading Australian ISP threatens to 'cut you off at the knees' one can't help but think theres something pretty serious going down. What's more the threat came across as if the person was drunk, nice! "I think...
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The Australian Federal Government has slashed fundings for the Australian Broadband Guarantee subsidy from $271 million in the 2008/09 budget over four years, to $230 million over the same period in this years 2009/10 budget. Department of Broadband Communications...
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Telstra's PSTN Exchanges across Australia are still being upgraded with Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (aka DSLAM) hardware for the purpose of delivering fast ADSL2+ broadband. Some of Australia's largest Telecommunication Providers...
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The ABC has been earmarked as the future 'Australian Town Square' for the NBN digital revolution and a place where all Australians can come to speak, listen, be heard and learn from each other. After receiving a very healthy $136.4 million in...
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Split into Retail and Wholesale divisions and we'll give you the option to buy 49% of the NBN. Maybe not quite that easy, however it's been stated that Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and the Federal Government will offer Telstra the option...
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Sol Trujillo rides off into the Mexican sunset taking with him a suspected $20 million dollar bon voyage payout, while incoming CEO, David Thodey, is left to pick up the pieces and rekindle the severed relationship left behind between Telstra and the...
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Common sense Aussies should be outraged by the Australian Communications and Media Authority's (ACMA) heavy handed ultimatum that's forcing Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) to remove a link to an abortion site from their blog. A deletion notice...
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It's been stated that work on the new national broadband network could commence shortly with $250 million to be allocated on a fibre optic backhaul by September. The Australian Federal Government will start seeking Tenders shortly, who will then be...
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Initial indications from many Optus customers suggest that they're far from happy with the Optus decision to rejoin the Federal Government's controversial Internet Content Filtering trial. Broadband Industry analyst Paul Budde has also expressed...
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BigPond have revamped their Next G Wireless and Mobile Broadband Plans to make them more affordable and faster along with incorporating 'no excess usage charges' into their BigPond Liberty 5GB and BigPond Liberty 10GB plans which now makes them...