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Pacnet looking to acquire

Asia-pacific telco Pacnet this week declined to confirm or deny its reported US$420 million bid for Telecom New Zealand subsidiary AAPT, saying only that it has been searching for buying opportunities in the region.

Inside Telstra's technical plans for the NBN

Telstra has given the first clear indications of its NBN proposal and the level of complexity that would be involved in the build, saying it would need to work 24x7 every day for five years to deliver the government’s planned...

Govt faces NBN funding block

Kevin Rudd's Labor Government is furious after the coalition won an amendment in the upper house to prevent the government using money from the Communications Fund to build its National Broadband Network (NBN).

Telstra Readies 21Mbps Wireless Network Down Under

The extensive high-speed eHSPA wireless network was helped by partners Ericsson, Qualcomm and Sierra Wireless. By W. David Gardner InformationWeek Infrastructure provider Telstra this week began installing an extensive...

Want fast web? Go up a tree

WHERE would you expect to find the fastest internet connection in the country? Probably not for a kid sitting up a tree in one of the most remote places in the Northern Territory. Several Top End remote communities now have...

Sick woman distressed over faulty phones

A remote community resident says she was cut off from medical help because phones lines to her home failed. Wallace Rockhole resident Carol Hemara says she told Telstra the community's phones were out last Tuesday, the day...

Remote Aborigines celebrate internet (ABC)

Aboriginal dancers from Gumbalanya put down the spears used in traditional ceremonies in the Northern Territory today and replaced them with fibre optic cables (pictured). The dancers were on the border between Kakadu and...

Tech biggies vie for integration deals

3 Dec, 2008, 0605 hrs IST,Pankaj Mishra, BANGALORE: With large global banks like Lloyds TSB, HBOS and Bank of America, Merrill Lynch merging, India’s top tech firms including Infosys, Satyam and TCS are bidding against...

CEDA says competition not NBN is key to broadband success

Leading economic think tank CEDA (Committee for Economic Development of Australia) has criticised the Federal Government's obsession with building the National Broadband Network, saying a subsidised $4.7 billion FTTN rollout...

Internode resumes Tassie ADSL2+ sales

in brief Internet service provider Internode today said it had resumed selling high-speed ADSL2+ services in Tasmania, due to the imminent prospect of BassLink switching on its cable back to the mainland. The ISP and others had...

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