Archive for January, 2009
Broadband consultants to get over $11 million
The consultants that are currently advising the Federal Government on the national broadband network have been given a budget of more than $11 million. So far consulting firms have been paid $4 million and to retain their services over the net five months they have been allocated a further $7.7 million, ...
New 3G plan still being plotted by Vodafone
The plans announced by Vodafone to upgrade and expand its network has now had to be moved back due to issues with one of its supplier, which it may be penalising although no confirmation of this has been made. The new revised schedule for the extension and upgrading of its 3G ...
Customers of Netspace respond to ISP filtering plans
A recent survey of customers regarding the planned filtering at ISP level has shown that the majority of users dont believe that this filtering system will not be beneficial to users of the internet and the possibility of an increase in charges has met with strong opposition. The results of a ...
Trials for unlimited broadband started by myKP
After details were recently released regarding limited trials, myKP, the Sydney-based ISP announced that it will be pre-qualifying several hundred requests to join its service offering unlimited xDSL. Selected areas of regional NSW, Victorian towns and Sydney suburbs have been chosen for the trial, which myKP has anticipated will be finished ...
Consortium speculation leaves analysts divided
The latest opinions from both Telco players and analysts regarding speculation that bidders will be requested to form of a consortium to build the National Broadband Network (NBN) have so far been mixed. Dr Paul Brooks, Layer 10 Communications founder said that the idea of various proponents considering this move would ...
Regulatory review submitted to the government by NBN expert panel
The federal government have now received a completed six week review into the regulatory environment for the impending National Broadband Network that is to be built in Australia. Prior to the NBN tender winner being announced the Department of Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) will be reviewing in detail ...
IDC says there will be no NBN in 2009
Any plans to begin building the federal governments national broadband network will not occur until next year according to the analyst group IDC. IDC also reported that the telecoms sector in Australia would continue to grow even in light of the worsening economic climate in one of the many predictions it ...
Internode legal dispute causes IMTV to suspend its ADSL business
Whilst seeking a resolution to its current legal dispute with Internode over the color orange and Extreme brand on its website, IMTV, the ISP based in Sydney has advised that it has ‘temporarily’ shut down its ADSL service. Michael Jaafar, the chief executive of the ISP advised that ‘until further ...
Broadband Satellite services dealt another blow by Next G
The addressable market for satellite service providers that can make use of the Broadband Guarantee funding has been worn down even further after the Government announced that Optus 3G is now qualified as a metro-comparable broadband service. People who are not able to get what is considered as ‘metro-comparable’ broadband services ...
The 98 percent broadband NBN promise is being changed by Labor say coalition
A statement claiming that the Australian Federal Government is attempting to alter the promise made to provide 98 percent of Australia with fibre based broadband by instead using wireless from commercial operators has been put out my Senator Nick Minchin, the Opposition Shadow Minister for communications. A number of issues currently ...
