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In brief: Westnet NSW customers affected by outage

iiNet subsidiary, Westnet, has reported an outage in New South Wales which is affecting approximately 8000 Westnet off-net ADSL customers and 600 mobile broadband customers.

By Hamish Barwick | 16 March, 2012 12:02

Tags: iinet, service outage, westnet

iiNet services to expand into Darwin, Queensland

Internet service provider (ISP) iiNet has announced its plans to expand its services to more than 38,500 households and businesses in Darwin and regional Queensland

By Hamish Barwick | 13 February, 2012 16:06

Tags: adsl2, iinet, internode, national broadband network

Britain warns of Internet meltdown

British businesses are being warned of possible Internet breakdowns, data caps and "unavoidable" mobile phone problems during the London 2012 Olympics, in official advice from the Games organisers.

By AAP | 06 February, 2012 13:18

Tags: internet, London Olympics 2012

Aussie kids youngest, prolific internet users: Study

Australian children are among the earliest and prolific users of the internet globally, according to a new study.

By Diana Nguyen | 03 November, 2011 10:02

Tags: ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, AU Kids Online, internet

OPEL would be serving bush broadband today: Turnbull

Federal opposition communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull has used his National Press Club address to argue the decision to scrap the Howard government’s OPEL network for an NBN has denied the bush broadband services over the past three years.

By Rodney Gedda | 03 August, 2011 14:37

Tags: ADSL, broadband, fibre, Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP), hfc cable, Malcom Turnbull, NBN, nbn co, opel, Senator Stephen Conroy

NBN reliability: Help guide first step for battery backup

The roll out of the National Broadband Network is set to revolutionise the way Australians communicate, but it has raised questions about the reliability of the network compared with existing copper-based telephone systems, especially among non-technical people.

By Rodney Gedda | 20 July, 2011 14:48

Tags: backup, battery, fibre optic, ftth, Haliplex, NBN, optical network termination, reliability, telephony

Telstra switches on Foxtel for T-Box

Delivering on an announcement earlier this year, Telstra T-Box owners will be able to subscribe to Foxtel pay TV from the end of the month without the need for a separate device.

By Rodney Gedda | 20 June, 2011 10:39

Tags: foxtel, IPTV, T-Box, television, Telstra, Telstra BigPond

In brief: Westnet accelerates regional DSLAM rollout

iiNet subsidiary Westnet will provide ADSL2+ services for the first time to approximately 140,000 homes in regional NSW and Western Australia as part of a $5 million broadband infrastructure upgrade.

By Computerworld Staff | 11 January, 2011 11:26

Tags: adsl2, National Broadband Network (NBN), NBN, networking, westnet

ACCC, Optus back in court over cable ads

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has commenced legal proceedings against Optus for misleading advertising and alleged breaches of the Trade Practices Act 1974.

By James Hutchinson | 08 September, 2010 14:37

Tags: accc, optus

NBN liked, ISP filter dogs Labor in election wake

The National Broadband Network is likely to play a key role in the balance of power with the independents and Greens supportive of the project, however, mandatory Internet filtering remains a bugbear that many of the elected MPs continue to oppose.

By Rodney Gedda | 23 August, 2010 11:23

Tags: adam bandt, Andrew Wilkie, bob katter, Federal Election 2010, filter, government, internet content filtering, isp filtering, NBN, Rob Oakeshot, Senator Stephen Conroy, The Greens, Tony Windsor

Telstra shares dive 7% after profit drop

Shares in Telstra Corporation Ltd have dropped by more than seven per cent after it reported a fall in annual net profit and forecast lower earnings for the year ahead.

By AAP | 12 August, 2010 12:55

Tags: business, telecommunications, Telstra

Coalition's NBN alternative to cost $6bn

The Coalition has unveiled its $6 billion rival broadband policy to Labor's National Broadband Network (NBN) project, with the central planks being a competitive backhaul network, regional and metropolitan wireless networks and an ADSL enrichment program that will target telephone exchanges without ADSL2+ broadband.

By Renai LeMay | 10 August, 2010 14:20

Tags: broadband, Coalition, government, NBN

Aus network bandwidth doubled with $400m deal

Raw network bandwidth out of Australia is set to get a two-fold increase with a new $US400 million undersea cable project announced in Sydney today.

By Rodney Gedda | 28 July, 2010 14:36

Tags: broadband, cables, fibre optic, pacific fibre, pacnet, submarine cables

Telstra offers better value BigPond broadband

Australia's largest ISP, Telstra BigPond, has reduced the pricing of its consumer broadband services in the wake of increasing competition.

By Rodney Gedda | 26 July, 2010 11:03

Tags: bigpond, broadband, isp, Telstra

Alcatel-Lucent boosts broadband over copper to 300Mbps

Alcatel-Lucent has found a way to move data at 300M bps (bits per second) over two copper lines, the company said on Wednesday. However, so far it is only in a lab environment -- real products and services won't show up until next year.

By Mikael Ricknäs | 22 April, 2010 05:05

Tags: alcatel-lucent, broadband, Ericsson, vdsl2

Telstra Internet outage points to DNS failure

This week's fault that knocked out Internet access for thousands of Telstra BigPond customers was most likely related to the ISPs domain name system (DNS), according to people affected by the outage.

By Rodney Gedda | 04 September, 2009 05:38

Tags: bigpond, DNS, isp, outage, Telstra

Internode chief defends NBN startup costs

Less than a week after it was revealed the CEO of the federal government’s NBN company will be paid nearly $2 million a year for the job, the managing director of ISP Internode Simon Hackett has said the appointment is good value for money.

By Rodney Gedda | 18 August, 2009 13:29

Tags: broadband, internode, NBN, Simon Hackett

Fibre to premises gives new housing estate 100Mbps

University Hill in Victoria is a new 400 house residential, commercial and retail precinct which is believed to be the first of its type in Australia to have 100Mbps fibre to the premises (FTTP) connectivity available to each building.

By Rodney Gedda | 07 August, 2009 09:02

Tags: broadband, fttp, NBN, NEC, optical fibre, opticomm

Time Warner Cable to join WiMax fray

Time Warner Cable will begin reselling WiMax mobile broadband from Clearwire in four U.S. markets, including Dallas and Charlotte, North Carolina, by the end of this year.

By Stephen Lawson | 31 July, 2009 05:00

Tags: cable, time warner, WiMax

NBN board has temporary pilot, ISP doubts still remain

We are told repeatedly that the $43 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) will be the single largest nation-building infrastructure project in Australia's history and support thousands of jobs, but its management team is yet to be determined.

By Dahna McConnachie | 16 July, 2009 12:51

Tags: CEOs, Communications Alliance, iinet, NBN, Primus Telecom

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