Australia Doesn’t Want 100Mbps Internet, Says Turnbull
iTWire High-profile Liberal MP Malcolm Turnbull has slammed Labor’s National Broadband Network Policy in an impassioned speech, describing it as “a gigantic torching of taxpayers’ money” and claiming most of Australia doesn’t want 100Mbps fibre internet. Topics: Australia, broadband, carrier, Google, government, telecom, wireless, wireless broadband
Google Fibre Method "Could Save NBN $10 billion"
iT News A fibre-laying technique being used by Google in an experimental US fibre network project could reduce the cost of the NBN by up to $10 billion, according to a local company that has licensed the technology. Broadband Network Communications (BBNC) had tendered to use “micro-trenching” to roll out fibre in urban areas to [...]
SingTel Tries to Stay Ahead in Tough Asian Markets
New York Times For much of the decade, Singtel, the former government phone monopoly of Singapore, has ridden the economic boom in Southeast Asia, investing in India, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Pakistan and Bangladesh alongside an expansion into Australia.But even in this fast-growing part of the world, telecommunications markets are maturing, and SingTel, in which [...]
Telstra Has Fastest Mobile Broadband Claims IDC
SmartHouse International Data Corporation has found that Telstra currently has the fastest mobile broadband in Australia. They have also reported that mobile broadband networks have improved average download speeds by 68 percent since 2008 to 2,941 Kbps. Topics: 3G, Australia, broadband, carrier, Google, International Data Corporation, networking, Optus, telecom, Telstra, wireless
Sysadmins Slam Conroy’s Wi-Fi “Misinformation”
The Australian Australia’s peak organisation for systems administrators has accused Communications Minister Stephen Conroy of producing “misinformation” in relation to his claim that internet banking details could have been collected by Google’s Street View cars during their scanning of Wi-Fi access points. Topics: Australia, broadband, Google, Stephen Conroy, telecom, telecommunications, Wi-Fi
3G Mobile Spurs Web Shift
The Australian THE shift to almost universal adoption of 3G mobile phones and growing internet access from mobiles has prompted a call for advertisers to move mobile campaigns beyond major mobile sites such as BigPond, Optus Zoo, 3 and Vodafone to their own mobile-formatted websites running directly from the web. Topics: 3G, Australia, carrier, Google, [...]
$50,000 A Page Report Says "Yes Minister"
TelecomTV A report that cost nearly $US50,000 per page has given the Australian government the green light to spend $US24 billion, at least, on a national broadband network. Simon Kearney reports. Topics: ADSL, Australia, broadband, carrier, Google, NBN, telecom, Telstra, wireless, wireless broadband
U.S. Ambassador Slams Australia’s Planned Web Filter
Total Telecom The U.S. ambassador to Australia has joined criticism of the country’s plan to filter the Internet, saying there are better ways to police child porn and extremism. Ambassador Jeff Bleich said the two sides had held “healthy discussions” about the proposal, which has reportedly been questioned by the U.S. State Department as well [...]
Government Reclaims $800k in Broadband Fraud
ZDNet, Australia The Federal Government Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) has reclaimed almost $1 million from two internet providers which allegedly misused a government-funded program to provide broadband services to people in remote areas. Topics: Australia, broadband, fraud, Google, government
Kevin Rudd, Stephen Conroy in it up to Their Eyeballs
Herald Sun KEVIN Rudd and Stephen Conroy’s $250 million gift to Kerry Stokes and the other TV moguls is outrageous and totally unacceptable. Except of course, all too readily by them. Topics: Adelaide, Australia, carrier, Google, Kevin Rudd, Stephen Conroy, Sydney, telecom
Melbourne Home To New Infosys Datacentre
ZDNet, Australia The Victorian Government has revealed that Indian IT services company Infosys has opened a new datacentre in the state capital, just as other companies lay out expansion plans for the state. Topics: Asia, Australia, employees, Google, government, Infosys, jobs, Melbourne, reseller, security, Victoria
AAPT Launches Unlimited Broadband: Better Deals on the Way?
iTWire AAPT has set the cat amongst the pigeons with its new offer of a “truly unlimited” broadband offering, promising no caps and no throttling, but instead of unleashing a torrent of competition, the early stance from other ISPs is one of “wait and see”. Should consumers do the same? Topics: AAPT, ADSL, ADSL2, Asia, [...]
Queensland 000 Systems Goes Down
ZDNet, Australia Triple-zero operators in Queensland were reduced to using pen and paper to log emergency calls after a state-wide computer system failure. Maintenance had been scheduled from midnight to 4am but technicians could not get the system back online until 9am after failing to reboot the system. Topics: Australia, Brisbane, Google, government, ISP, jobs, [...]
Australia May Be Home To New Google Datacentre
ZDNet, Australia Google has refused to rule out constructing an Australian datacentre amid what analysts and partners say is “intense” interest from large Australian organisations in the search giant’s cloud computing Apps suite. Topics: Australia, Google, government, hosting, Telstra
Telstra Must Rethink Its NBN Strategy
Business Spectator The NBN will take eight years to build and will then be one-tenth of the speed of Google’s network, or 100 megabits per second – what seemed a year ago to be blindingly, impossibly fast. And before they start work on the NBN, tortuous negotiations with Telstra have to be finished. Topics: Australia, [...]
