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Broadband speeds on the rise and customers happy
• Survey of over 45,000 customers shows average satisfaction rating: 67.76 per cent • Average Australian broadband connection speed up from 5.5Mbps to 5.86Mbps • Optus still tops the local speed charts with 7.55Mbps • If you live outside a metro area on average your speed will be 2Mbp slower The latest data from ...
Optus to launch sat nav smart phone for tech savvy travellers
Communications and broadband giant Optus has announced that it will be the first provider in Australia to offer a new smart phone that combines smart phone features and innovation with a high quality sat nav system. There are many people that enjoy getting online whilst out and about through the use ...
NBN broadband services launched in Tasmania by iPrimus
Broadband provider iPrimus launched its services on the National Broadband Network earlier this week, with the service being launched in a number of areas in Tasmania. It was announced earlier this week by broadband giant iPrimus that its services had been launched on the National Broadband Network in parts of Tasmania, ...
Conroy advises that tenders for the NBN are not a secret
Accusations that he securing of private tenders that were given out to build the National Broadband Network (NBN) in Australia were done behind closed doors has been denied by the Broadband and Communications minister, Stephen Conroy. The NBN Co, which is that company that is now responsible for the building of ...
New FTTP trials to be opened by Telstra
In an effort to prepare itself for the impending rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN), Telstra will now be moving away from its current copper wire broadband network and will begin rolling out Fibre optic broadband services throughout Australia, beginning with Point Cook. Trials of a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) service ...
DVDs could be replaced with broadband download services
A recent report has suggested that the rising number of download services now available to broadband users in Australia could result in DVDs being replaced by digital download services It doesn't seem that long ago since the DVD hit the global markets, and consumers were wowed with this new, sleek, and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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