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LTE performance: bad news is good news
Published on January 26th, 2010.
A blog post by Scandinavian research firm, Northstream reporting 'disappointing' performance after informal testing of the world's first commercial LTE network received wide publicity, but the firm has since watered...Filled under Cornered! - Telecommunications blog, latest news. No Comments.
Telstra to form 18,000 strong customer panel, again!
Published on December 7th, 2009.
Telstra has announced yet another initiative that it claims will enable it to really understand what its customer want: it's going to build up a panel of about 18,000 of...Filled under Cornered! - Telecommunications blog, latest news. No Comments.
Conroy must stand firm in NBN negotiations with Telstra
Published on November 26th, 2009.
Failure of the telecoms reform bill to get through Parliament has given Telstra a window of opportunity to wring from the Government more favourable terms in return for its involvement...Filled under Cornered! - Telecommunications blog, latest news. No Comments.
Unified comms market in desperate need of definition
Published on November 24th, 2009.
For at least 18 months Cisco has been talking about a global UC market worth $US27 billion, and Frost Sullivan has just estimated the Australian US services market...Filled under Cornered! - Telecommunications blog, latest news. No Comments.
Unanswered questions about NSW Education’s $280m Telstra contract
Published on November 21st, 2009.
NSW minister of education Verity Firth announced on Friday 20 November an agreement with Telstra that she promised would revolutionise the delivery of digital education to all public schools...Filled under Cornered! - Telecommunications blog, latest news. No Comments.
The wisdom of Phil Burgess, brought to you by the WSJ
Published on November 4th, 2009.
Telstra's erstwhile mouthpiece, Phil Burgess, has been at it again, peddling his views on the Australian Government, the ACCC and Australian telecommunications in general to anyone who will give him...Filled under Cornered! - Telecommunications blog, latest news. No Comments.
NZ research questions the value of high speed broadband
Published on November 2nd, 2009.
A New Zealand study has found that the productivity benefits businesses gain by moving to higher speed broadband are minimal compared to the gains by from implementing lower speed broadband...Filled under Cornered! - Telecommunications blog, latest news. No Comments.
Bartlett making the most of Tassie’s NBN
Published on October 23rd, 2009.
Tasmanian Greens leader, Nick McKim, is, according to ABC News predicting a drip-feed of announcements over the Tasmanian roll-out of the National Broadband Network, to maximise the State Government's...Filled under Cornered! - Telecommunications blog, latest news. No Comments.
TV broadcasters should favour, not fear the NBN
Published on October 17th, 2009.
Free to air broadcasters are concerned that delivery of video over the Internet via the NBN threatens their industry, but, according to Alcatel-Lucent, the NBN could have video capabilities beyond...Filled under Cornered! - Telecommunications blog, latest news. No Comments.
TV broadcasters should favour, not fear the NBN
Published on October 17th, 2009.
Free to air broadcasters are concerned that delivery of video over the Internet via the NBN threatens their industry, but, according to Alcatel-Lucent, the NBN could have video capabilities beyond...Filled under Cornered! - Telecommunications blog, latest news. No Comments.
Minchin claims Conroy and Tanner at odds over Telstra break-up
Published on September 20th, 2009.
Shadow communications minister Nick Minchin claims that communications minister Stephen Conroy and finance minister Lindsay Tanner are at odds over the government's determination to wrest the HFC network and Foxtel...Filled under Cornered! - Telecommunications blog, latest news. No Comments.
iiNet CEO warns of telco-centric NBN
Published on August 17th, 2009.
iiNet managing director, Michael Malone says there is a danger of the NBN being developed under a 'carrier-centric' model that would require every service provider to go through a carrier...Filled under Cornered! - Telecommunications blog, latest news. No Comments.
Creating an illusion of progress on the Tasmanian NBN
Published on July 16th, 2009.
Claims that the Tasmanian NBN is progressing according to the schedule promised in April don't stack up.Filled under Cornered! - Telecommunications blog, latest news. No Comments.
What direction for Australia’s digital economy?
Published on July 14th, 2009.
Communications minister Stephen Conroy has released a report on the Future Directions of Australia's Digital Economy, following a consultation paper issued in December. While it is full of good information,...Filled under Cornered! - Telecommunications blog, latest news. No Comments.
Can you sniff out a rotten phish?
Published on June 29th, 2009.
If so you are a member of an elite minority. According to research undertaken by Internet security specialist VeriSign, 86 percent of Australian Web users are at risk from online...Filled under Cornered! - Telecommunications blog, latest news. No Comments.
Telstra welcomes one small reduction in its regulatory burden
Published on June 24th, 2009.
Wishful thinking or Telstra trying to be conciliatory to the Federal Government? Whatever, Telstra's over-enthusiastic welcome to a minor piece of legislation was in stark contrast to the song and...Filled under Cornered! - Telecommunications blog, latest news. No Comments.
4G? It’s a myth but don’t blame the press
Published on May 15th, 2009.
4G is a term often used and more often misused to try and 'sex-up' current or almost current wireless technologies like WiMAX or the long term evolution (LTE) of 3G....Filled under Cornered! - Telecommunications blog, latest news. No Comments.
Telstra’s new guard: it’s all about the customer
Published on May 7th, 2009.
Telstra's incoming CEO and chair, David Thodey and Catherine Livingstone, weren't keen to talk about Telstra's future relationship with the government and their stance on matters regulatory at their first...Filled under Cornered! - Telecommunications blog, latest news. No Comments.
Promises, promises: Government changes tack on NBN
Published on April 6th, 2009.
Three weeks ago communications minister Stephen Conroy was adamant that the Government would fulfil its election promise of an FTTN network delivering at least 12Mbps to 98 percent of the...Filled under Cornered! - Telecommunications blog, latest news. No Comments.
Who’s the April Fool?
Published on April 4th, 2009.
A spoof article published in Computerworld Australia on 1 April claiming that Telstra had agreed to a retail/wholesale split if it were to win the NBN went badly awry and...Filled under Cornered! - Telecommunications blog, latest news. No Comments.