Archive for December, 2008
Aboriginal communities hit due to the lack of government action
As the fate of a major project set to supply 134 indigenous remote communities over 550 locations with computer systems and access to the internet currently hangs in the balance it would appear that the lack of action by the government will see Australia’s aboriginal communities paying the price. As part ...
Telstra could be forced to split by national broadband plans
If Telstra, the biggest telephone company in Australia, is bypassed completely when it builds the $6.9 billion National Broadband Network, as the government has threatened, it is highly likely that the telco could be split up. Having been dropped from the planning of the new network Telstra could see the ...
Plans for Web site blocking causes outrage in Australia
Australia could soon become one of the strictest regulators of the Internet among democratic countries with the new internet filter it is proposing, which has been named by many as the “Great Aussie Firewall”. This Internet filtering system, which will be mandatory and will block more than 1300 websites that the ...
Government responsible for more delays in the net filtering system trials
The latest delay to hit the mandatory internet filtering trial by the government is, according to the federal government something that has come as no surprise. An announcement of the postponing of the trial, which should have started recently, and that it will now be moved to a new date of ...
Telstra loses one of its few good calls
After a series of big fights with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission in recent years, Telstra have now had one of the few rulings that were made in its favour overturned by the ACCC. The previous decision by the ACCC for Telstra to be exempt from regulations that saw the ...
BitTorrent and Peer to Peer traffic also to be included in filter tests says Conroy
The trials of the controversial ISP content filter that is due to begin before the year end will now also include new filter technologies that examine both BitTorrent and peer-to-peer traffic, according to Stephen Conroy, the Broadband minister. In response to recent allegations of both freedom of speech and technical issue ...
Christmas brings major price cuts from telcos on mobile broadband
The chance for some of the main telcos to make big reductions on their mobile broadband charges and the pricing on their iPhones have been taken in the run up to Christmas. Announcements from Vodafone to offer ‘three months free access’ when signing up for a 24 month contract on its ...
2008 sees rise in number of Australian broadband users by 22 percent to 4.3M
According to the latest figures released by the Australian Bureau of statistics the signup by Australian homes for broadband access services from the beginning of the year to 30th June 2008 rose by 800 000, which increased the total number to 4.3 million. Although compared to the June 2007 figures it ...
iiNet defends itself against claims that it allowed piracy
iiNet has been given until February to file a defense against the movie studios who allege that it permitted the illegal download of films by its customers willingly, in a landmark case that is set to rock the internet industry. The deadline of February 5th was recently set by Justice Dennis ...
Wireless broadband threats from Telstra dismissed by Conroy
The idea of Telstra competing with NBN in terms of level speed using a wireless broadband network have been met with the comment ‘the laws of physics say that’s not right’ by Stephen Conroy, the Broadband Minister as he dismissed any concerns over the threat. Claims made by Sol Trujillo, the ...
