With increased broadband access having resulted in an increase in online scams the Australian telco Telstra has issued advice to try and protect broadband users from online scams.

Over recent years a rising number of Australians have signed up to broadband services, and this has provided users with a wide range of benefits opening up a whole new virtual world that can benefit users in many different ways. However, the increased take up of broadband services has also given more scope to fraudsters, and in line with the increased take up of broadband services there has been an increase in the number of online scams in operation.
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Communications giant Telstra has announced that it is increasing the data allowances on its prepaid wireless broadband, which could provide a number of benefits for users.

When it comes to using mobile broadband services the data allowances that come with the service are hugely important to some people depending on what they plan to use the service for. Australian communications giant Telstra has now announced some good news that could provide a number of benefits for users of its prepaid wireless broadband service.
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Recent data has indicated that the productivity gap in Australia is continuing to widen, but there is evidence that deployment of technologies such as higher speed broadband and improved networks could help to bridge this gap.

Communications giant Telstra has recently released data that shows how the productivity gap in Australia in continuing to widen. The productivity gap refers to the difference between expectations and actual output when it comes to productivity, and this gap has increased from twenty nine percent last year to thirty four percent this year.
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In order to establish a regulatory framework for the NBN Co Limited, the National Broadband Network company, the federal government recently released exposure drafts of legislation.

The Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (National Broadband Network Measures – Access Arrangement) Bill 2010 and the National Broadband Network Companies Bill 2010 are two of the bills that have been released in the exposure drafts.
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Research published by broadband comparison website www.broadbandexpert.com.au, has found Australian Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are delivering less than 50 percent of the download speeds spruiked in broadband plans.

Over the last six months (1 July 2009 – 31 December 2009), Broadband Expert has collected data from 11,089 speed tests which make miserable reading for Internet users. The research asked consumers what the maximum ‘up to’ speed advertised from their broadband plan was and compared this to the actual speed achieved on Broadband Expert’s speed test.
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