Christmas brings major price cuts from telcos on mobile broadband
The chance for some of the main telcos to make big reductions on their mobile broadband charges and the pricing on their iPhones have been taken in the run up to Christmas. Announcements from Vodafone to offer ‘three months free access’ when signing up for a 24 month contract on its ...
2008 sees rise in number of Australian broadband users by 22 percent to 4.3M
According to the latest figures released by the Australian Bureau of statistics the signup by Australian homes for broadband access services from the beginning of the year to 30th June 2008 rose by 800 000, which increased the total number to 4.3 million. Although compared to the June 2007 figures it ...
iiNet defends itself against claims that it allowed piracy
iiNet has been given until February to file a defense against the movie studios who allege that it permitted the illegal download of films by its customers willingly, in a landmark case that is set to rock the internet industry. The deadline of February 5th was recently set by Justice Dennis ...
Wireless broadband threats from Telstra dismissed by Conroy
The idea of Telstra competing with NBN in terms of level speed using a wireless broadband network have been met with the comment ‘the laws of physics say that’s not right’ by Stephen Conroy, the Broadband Minister as he dismissed any concerns over the threat. Claims made by Sol Trujillo, the ...
Telstra NBN rejection has the government demanding answers
The Telstra board has been called upon by the Rudd Government to explain to its shareholders why it did not ensure that it complied with the tender process for the $4.7 billion broadband network during its bid. The warning that compliance to the five mandatory requirements had been issued to bidders ...
National broadband priorities to be set by local, state and federal government
In an effort to ensure that Australia remains both internationally and domestically competitive a framework that will speed up broadband development and use throughout the country has been released jointly by all levels of the Australian Government. During the 16th meeting in Melbourne of the Online and Communications Council (OCC) the ...
Unmetered access to the ABC iView service is now being offered by another ISP
Broadband subscribers of iPrimus will now be able to access the iView Internet service from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for nothing as the ISP become the latest to offer free and unmetered access to the service. The recent announcement by iPrimus to offer completely unmetered access to the iView TV service ...
NBN bids will soon be assessed by the expert panel
The first signs that the tender process has really begun will start this weekend when all bidders get the opportunity to put their proposals forward to the governments eight person strong expert panel as they attempt to secure their bids for the $10 billion plus national broadband network. The first presentations ...
Plans for NBN released by Axia
Claims were recently made by Axia Netmedia, a relatively unknown Canadian group, that the $15 billion national broadband network from the Rudd Government shouldn’t be built if it doesn’t use fibre cabling all the way to businesses and homes in metropolitan areas. Calls for the broadband network to have fibre to ...
WiMax build to be a fight between two suppliers
It appears that a two-horse race is on the cards for Unwireds national metropolitan WiMax broadband network with a possible tie between Motorola and Huawei in their fight for the $200 million contract to build the network. David Spence, the chief executive officer for Unwired said that the possibility of either ...
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