Archive for May, 2009
Making calls without home phone services gains popularity in Australia
An increasing number of consumers in Australia are finding that the need for a home phone line is becoming far less important when the option of using Voice over IP (VoIP) on a naked DSL connection is becoming far more viable. Many users are choosing to just take out Naked DSL ...
Telstra says that providers should co-operate rather than compete for backhaul
Following the decision by the Federal government to build its own National broadband network an offer of co-operation has now been made by incumbent, Telstra, as a different option to its plans for subsidised competition when it made its submission to the backhaul blackspot consultation. It has been suggested by Telstra ...
Rudd government under fire
The releasing of two reports that were used to justify the building of the fibre-to-the premises National Broadband network costing $43 billion has been refused by the Rudd Government causing widespread concern from many quarters. The commercial sensitivities of the reports has been the reason given by government for not allowing ...
Slow broadband problems admitted to by Optus
A user who signed up for the Optus Naked DSL service base on the telcos claim that his broadband connection would only be slowed down to 128Kbps once his download limit had been reached, which would be fine for basic internet and email access, has made a complaint over problems ...
Australian mobile broadband users hit with a nasty surprise
Research carried out by broadband and mobile broadband comparison website www.BroadbandExpert.com.au has found that many Australians could be hit with large bills for exceeding the monthly download limit on their mobile broadband contracts. The findings reveal that downloading just two episodes of Channel Nine’s Sea Patrol after exceeding the download ...
New facilities for fibre specialists sparked by NBN plans
The building of a $4.1 million R & D and distribution facility in Melbourne by a local fibre optics company, Warren and Brown, has been spurred by the announcement of a homegrown National Broadband Network (NBN). According to Neil Domelow, the company’s managing director, Warren and Brown distribute and manufacture optical ...
NBN given the thumbs up from ACCC as it predicts Foxtels monopoly ending
The Federal Governments National Broadband Network has been given a big thumbs up from Graham Samuel, the chairman of the ACCC, who also predicted Foxtel’s monopoly of Pay TV coming to an end and gave his endorsement on structural separation. Samuel applauded the NBN, especially the regulatory changes that would come ...
Tasmanian ADSL2+ market to be entered by Netspace without deal with Basslink
Even though Netspace decided to launch ADSL2+ services in Launceston and Hobart early it has advised that it may wait several months after the launch of Basslink before signing any kind of capacity deal with them. Three Tasmanian exchanges have been completed in the initial 12-month deployment of DSLAM and a ...
Conroy says the cost of building the NBN could be less than $43 billion
The actual cost to build the National Broadband Network was expected by the Government to be "significantly lower than $43 billion" according to a recent statement from Stephen Conroy, the Broadband Minister. Conroy stated that the element had a "substantial contingency" built in when he recently addressed the annual conference of ...
Telstra break-up now called for by Optus
Calls for the structural separation of Telstra have now been joined by Optus, who has advised that for the Governments $43 billion National Broadband Network to be a success there are four critical regulatory changes it deems necessary. The announcement of the termination of the old NBN and its replacement with ...
