Broadband News
Ellis review results hold staff in suspense
Telstra has strongly rejected claims that the company will move away from the IPTV market, in a response to The Register's report last Monday that it was reviewing its IPTV strategy and considering moving its 300,000 T-Box customers to Foxtel.…
16 May 2012 | 6:34 am
Exec exodus continues as speculation downloads
Telstra is expected to shut down its aggressive IPTV ambitions and hand over its 300,000 plus T-Box customers to Foxtel, once the merger of Foxtel and Austar is completed, sources close to the deal have told The Register.…
14 May 2012 | 7:17 am
Loses 'priority call' appeal in battle against IPCom
A top UK court has ruled that Nokia's old 3G handsets infringed a telecoms patent owned by technology warehouse IPCom, which wants a ban on every mobile made by the Finns.…
11 May 2012 | 3:03 pm
Corning opens new digs and is hiring
Corning Cable Systems has unveiled a new manufacturing plant in Victoria which will create 400 new jobs as a result of securing a key National Broadband Network Co contract.…
11 May 2012 | 5:31 am
Alca-Lu lays the cable for island nation broadband boost
A new US$18 million undersea cable project connecting the Kingdom of Tonga and Fiji to Australia and the US is under construction following the awarding of the contract to Alcatel-Lucent.…
11 May 2012 | 4:33 am
Give us cloud PVRs or give us freedom … from innovation and choice, pleads telco
Optus has decided to take the fight over its personal video recorder as a service to the High Court, after lower courts recently decreed the service breaches copyright.…
10 May 2012 | 4:54 am
Automated, elastic, policy-driven network controls coming real soon now™
Telstra has added user-configurable quality of service to its NextIP network and has even reached out to its Trademark lawyers to give it a flashy name: Application Assured Networking™.…
10 May 2012 | 2:53 am
No more “second-grade-third-world-digital-boat-people people”
A newly-launched New Zealand ISP, FYX, promises to try and avoid geo-blocking regimes that restrict access to certain content to residents of a select group of nations.…
10 May 2012 | 1:28 am
Telco bets future of mobile on TU Me
Telefonica, owner of the O2 brand, has launched VoIP service TU Me across all its territories, and for all punters with an iPhone, as the telco bets on the future direction of mobile use.…
9 May 2012 | 2:32 pm
Sussex hospital, businesses, schools cut off
BT phone lines were down for 20,000 customers in Brighton and Eastbourne this morning, cutting phone contact to businesses and homes and even preventing a patient from getting through to the Royal Sussex County Hospital.…
9 May 2012 | 12:24 pm
Operators in dire warning as government mulls proposals
Mobile phone bills in India could double if the government agrees to new regulatory proposals for upcoming 2G spectrum auctions, the country’s major operators have warned.…
7 May 2012 | 7:48 am
Half a BILLION is not enough, apparently
The Chinese government is hoping to close the country’s digital divide further by bringing a whopping 800 million of its citizens online by 2015, according to its latest pronouncement.…
7 May 2012 | 2:32 am
Ruckus 'apologises' for faith-based video
US Wi-Fi vendor Ruckus Wireless has "apologised" for an evangelical ad campaign, branded ‘Believe’, in which a God-fearing preacher promises "WiFi you can put your faith in" and "the chance to connect to a greater power."…
7 May 2012 | 12:46 am
He's just some guy
The boss of BSkyB isn't Rupert Murdoch despite what many might think. Today the UK broadcaster and telco reminded the world of that fact as it attempted to distance itself from the 81-year-old media mogul, who has been labelled by MPs as being "not fit" to run a multinational outfit.…
3 May 2012 | 8:38 am
Creates new division for customer care, with less
Optus is slashing 750 positions over the next few months as part of a significant business restructure.…
3 May 2012 | 12:08 am
Privately-funded FTTP for Blighty's cities
Fujitsu has inked an engineering deal worth £50m with CityFibre Holdings to roll out cabling on behalf of the telco.…
1 May 2012 | 1:18 pm
Rolls out services wide with parental support
iiNet-owned ISP Internode is leveraging its parent’s infrastructure investment and offering ADSL2 services across an additional 240 exchanges through Australia. The residential service, Easy Broadband, will now be carried across the iiNet network which more than doubles the number of exchanges that can deliver Internode Easy Broadband services from 208 to 450.…
1 May 2012 | 4:18 am
Has there been a bigger naked DSL rollout in Oz?
Optus’ new “free broadband” offers are a little more complex than the “free” headline would have you believe.…
30 Apr 2012 | 3:36 am
No more NSFW vids on BigPond
Telstra has decided not to promote access to “adult oriented content” on BigPond's video download service.…
27 Apr 2012 | 7:24 am
Ultrafast broadband among product scrutiny tests ahead of full launch
BT has kicked off a trial and pilot scheme to which rival ISPs can sign up. It will run until mid-June this year.…
24 Apr 2012 | 2:39 pm
Now does straight-up video calls
Microsoft has delivered the first version of Skype for Windows Phone.…
23 Apr 2012 | 12:18 pm
ISP for the middle classes
The British middle classes' favourite high street retailer, John Lewis, is renowned for its customer service.…
21 Apr 2012 | 1:19 pm
Must try harder...
Asia Pacific mobile operators have caught up their rivals in North America and Europe but only nine per cent have commercial 4G LTE networks up and running, according to new research from analyst ABI Research.…
20 Apr 2012 | 7:45 am
Quotes ITU to prove all's well
Refutes Turnbull's assertion of unusual risk NBNCo has moved to extinguish Malcolm Turnbull's argument, raised at a Public Hearing of the Joint Committee into the National Broadband Network, that its decision to commission satellites before securing an orbit for them represents an unconventional and risky practice.…
19 Apr 2012 | 4:22 am
Minister grilled as telco bids for all eight cabling gigs
Broadband minister Ed Vaizey confirmed to MPs yesterday that BT was bidding for all eight cabling projects currently in procurement.…
17 Apr 2012 | 12:21 pm
Launch timed to beat Spotify?
Telstra has announced it will soon launch the MOG streaming music service on antipodean shores.…
17 Apr 2012 | 1:44 am
We replay their NBN Joint Committee brawl
At about 3:30 PM yesterday, during a Public Hearing of the Joint Committee on the National Broadband Network, several NBNCo staffers suddenly became quite agitated.…
16 Apr 2012 | 10:59 pm
Hopes FTTP tech will help grow Acorn House
BT's biz wing has completed what it claimed to be the first fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) install to multiple buildings in the UK.…
16 Apr 2012 | 12:23 pm
Board rejected scheme to focus on new handsets
Ousted RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie spent his last few months at the helm developing a radical strategy to transform the fortunes of the trouble Canadian company by opening up its network to provide basic data plans to non-smartphone users.…
13 Apr 2012 | 9:16 pm
PC startup times also an issue, says ShoreTel
Softphones aren’t making inroads onto smartphones or the desktop because the former lacks battery life and the latter take too long to start up, according to Jamie Romanin, ShoreTel’s Regional Director for Australasia.…
12 Apr 2012 | 8:20 am
Requires commitment before coming across
BT broadband customers who subscribe to the company's Infinity 2 package will see their fibre download speeds nearly double from tomorrow, the national telco has promised.…
11 Apr 2012 | 4:42 pm
Google OS wins up to 70 per cent of China's mobile market
Android is absolutely creaming iOS in the world’s biggest mobile phone market, according to new stats from Beijing-based Analysys International, which estimate the Google platform now accounts for nearly 70 per cent of Chinese smartphones.…
11 Apr 2012 | 7:37 am
Paid up? Then you're good to go on Easter Sunday
Beginning this Sunday, AT&T will let some customers unlock their iPhones, thus allowing them to use another carrier's service – provided, of course, that the carrier's network is compatible with the newly unlocked iPhone.…
6 Apr 2012 | 11:00 pm
Freephone should be free, not 21p a minute
Brits calling freephone numbers for government helplines should be able to make those calls for free from their mobiles as well, Ofcom has said.…
5 Apr 2012 | 11:02 am
Fights off absolutely no one
The first round of the government's public broadband funding has been awarded to Lancashire County Council, after the local authority agreed to a £62.5m project with national telco BT.…
4 Apr 2012 | 8:32 am
Bust the limit, lose half your downlink speed
Virgin Media has introduced new throttling "trigger levels" for customers who make heavy use of its network.…
3 Apr 2012 | 1:02 pm
Sir John Buchanan legging it to ARM
Vodafone's deputy chairman Sir John Buchanan is reportedly exiting the company after taking up a chairmanship post at Cambridge-based semiconductor firm ARM.…
2 Apr 2012 | 2:19 pm
'Now, about that $3.6bn spectrum deal...'
Verizon plans to launch a mobile-video service by the end of this year, a move that would put even more traffic onto its already overburdened network.…
30 Mar 2012 | 8:55 pm
Lenovo, ZTE and Huawei have the low end in their sights
China’s mobile phone market is set for a massive shake-up as hundreds of so-called 'white box' handset makers based in the country go bankrupt as a result of increasing competition at the low end of the market from established, big name domestic players such as Huawei, ZTE and Lenovo.…
30 Mar 2012 | 6:53 am
Don't mention Huawei
The first large-scale rollout of Australia’s National Broadband Network has been announced, with the government and NBN Co announcing that 3.5 million premises (including homes, businesses, schools and hospitals) are to receive their connections by 2015.…
29 Mar 2012 | 4:36 am
More capacity for anticipated demand
Telstra International has deployed a 40 Gbps DTN solution for the Reach optical subsea network in Asia, using Infinera gear.…
27 Mar 2012 | 12:13 am
AUD$300m tender and 800 local jobs created
Leighton Contractors has taken out the AUD$300 million tender for the NBN Co rollout in Tasmania, covering around 200,000 homes.…
26 Mar 2012 | 11:48 pm
Rescue plans ignored
Despite being the subject of numerous rescue plans, Russia's failed Express-AM4 satellite has been nudged into the atmosphere for a fiery end.…
26 Mar 2012 | 5:45 am
GALAXY S II 4G joins the range
Telstra now has two 4G-capable handsets competing for your telephonic pleasure and may have signalled the expansion or enhancement of its 4G network..…
26 Mar 2012 | 3:51 am
First RSP certified
NBN Co has given Primus Australia the green light to be the network’s first retail service provider with B2B interoperability certification.…
26 Mar 2012 | 12:06 am
House committee rejects bill
Independent federal parliamentarian Andrew Wilkie has lost his bid to regulate the placement and expansion of “low impact” mobile phone facilities, with a House of Representatives committee unanimously rejecting his bill.…
25 Mar 2012 | 11:15 pm
Lawsuit alleges abuse costing taxpayers 'millions'
AT&T can't catch a break from the US government. First the feds squashed Big Phone's proposed merger with Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA, and now the Department of Justice has slapped a suit on the company for alleged improper billing for services intended for use by the deaf and hard of hearing.…
23 Mar 2012 | 11:58 pm
Plus, why the Brits are nation of digital shopkeepers - and digital hoarders...
(silicon.com - Networks)
23 Mar 2012 | 4:15 pm
Smart device growth surging in People's Republic
China has passed yet another mobile milestone, beating the US to top spot in iOS and Android activations for the first time and surging to become the world’s fastest growing market for mobile applications, according to new stats from mobile analytics firm Flurry.…
23 Mar 2012 | 4:00 am
Wall Street versus 'We, the People'
Critics of Verizon's proposed spectrum-acquisition deal have told a congressional hearing that if the deal is approved, the effect will be disasterous for competition, consumers, rural communities, and of course, today's favorite political football: jobs.…
22 Mar 2012 | 8:10 pm
ISP still on Ofcom's naughty step
TalkTalk, for the fifth consecutive quarter, is the most whinged about telco in the UK, Ofcom confirmed today.…
22 Mar 2012 | 11:44 am
Smartphone and tablets putting pressure on networks
(silicon.com - Networks)
22 Mar 2012 | 10:40 am
News in brief: One in ten neighbourhoods gets speeds of below 3MBps
(silicon.com - Networks)
24 Feb 2012 | 5:24 pm
Not soap - something that could undermine the fundamental interconnectedness of the internet...
(silicon.com - Networks)
20 Jan 2012 | 3:43 pm
Viewers discovering new ways of watching the box...
(silicon.com - Networks)
16 Jan 2012 | 4:40 pm
