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Sierra Wireless on Monday announced the AirPrime MC8801, a module that will allow makers of laptops, netbooks and tablets to integrate mobile broadband using HSPA+ (High-Speed Packet Access) at download speeds up to 42M bps (bits per second) into their products.

The plan for an underground fibre optic network to deliver high-speed broadband to Australians may be up in the air, but a Telstra tech boss says bigger is better.

Optus has posted its strongest quarterly earnings growth in five years as it continues to attract mobile customers away from its competitors.

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.

Tesltra and HTC have partnered to offer the first pre-paid Android-based mobile handset, the HTC Wildfire, to the local market at a street price of $349.

Telstra has announced pricing for the iPhone 4 which is due for release on July 30, including no upfront cost for a 16GB model on a $79 plan or above with a 24 month contract.

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

The Federal Government's NBN Co has announced the successful contractors which will work on construction of the passive optical fibre network in the five first release sites on the Australian mainland.

The nation's GPs and Telstra have reached an agreement on the roll-out of "critical first step" e-health reforms.

Australia's telco giant may have one monkey off its back after its National Broadband Network (NBN) deal, but its boss says it now has its sights set on diversifying the business and satisfying unhappy customers.

The local Android-powered mobile phone space continues to heat up with Vodafone to start selling Google’s Nexus One handset from today.

The nation's biggest telco Telstra has taken a slice out of the cost of its flagship Android-based smartphone, the HTC Desire, just hours before rival Vodafone is slated to start selling Google's Nexus One handset, which has similar specifications and was also built by HTC.

When the first NBN Co staffing cost figures began to surface last year, the consensus among industry observers was to pay market rates for the best people. This week, the NBN Co CEO pledged to donate his first year's pay to charity, but the big costs keep on coming.

The $11 billion infrastructure sharing agreement between Telstra and the NBN Co is set to expedite the deployment of fibre broadband potentially freeing up the telco to concentrate on improving its high-speed Next G wireless network for mainstream broadband access.