Archive for March, 2009
Next week set for the government to announce the broadband tender
An announcement is set to be made next week as to which of the five remaining consortium that entered proposals to build the National Broadband Network worth $4.7 billion for the Federal Government has won the bid. Next week is now the expected date set for the Federal Government to announce ...
Broadband bid from Acacia backed by ANZ
National Broadband Network (NBN) bidder Acacia, which has been tipped as the $10 billion plus projects surprise front runner, is now being advised by the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group. A heavyweight team of advisers including Deutsche Bank have been assembled by Acacia, a secretive, bidding vehicle based in Melbourne ...
Demands by GetUp for Conroys internet filter to be dropped
Following a recent decision by a second internet service provider to drop out of the planned trial the lobbying group GetUp have told the Federal Government that it should abandon it plans for internet filtering. iiNet, the third largest internet provider in Australia cited "corporate social responsibility" concerns when it informed ...
VDSL2 rolled out by TransACT
A recent announcement was made be telecoms provider based in Canberra that its network will be undergoing infrastructure upgrades to allow it to offer its customers super fast broadband speeds of up to four times higher than the current 24Mbps ADSL2+ speeds using VDSL2. The latest upgrade that will be carried ...
Net censorship trials see the exit of iiNet
iiNet, the third biggest internet provider in Australia has said that it could not "reconcile participation in the trial with our corporate social responsibility" and promptly left the internet censorship trials by the Government. A leaked copy of the secret Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) blacklist of prohibited websites, of ...
Analysts say that there is no need to split Telstra
According to an analyst the decision made to sue Telstra by the consumer watchdogs for allegedly block competitors access to its network is a “test case” designed for the possible separation of Telstra’s operations. The latest legal action was in fact a demonstration as to why is would be unnecessary to ...
Government agency to monitor blogs online
The decision of an Australian government agency to monitor online blogs for mentions of itself has caused controversy in Australia according to a recent report. According to a recent report the Australian government agency, The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE), is to start monitoring blogs online for ...
ACCC court case slammed by Telstra
Telstra have said that the decision made by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's (ACCC) to take it to court for allegedly lying with regards to its inability to provide other carriers with wholesale services is a waste of both money and court time. In a recent statement David Quilty, the ...
A single bureaucrat rules the Australian Internet Filter
A recent discovery that the choice of which websites were blocked had no clear consultation process and could be performed by one member of staff has called into question the accountability of the Internet content filter from the Federal Government. Concerns have been raised by advocacy groups for privacy that unless ...
Fixed WiMAX nodes that are targeted at business deployed by Unwired
As it eagerly awaits the National Broadband Network plans, Unwired steams ahead with a fixed WiMAX build focused on business. Using its ageing Nevini wireless network, the company, has focused more on consumers, until now, and is building its business network in Sydney and Melbourne quietly, with plans for more build ...
