New consumer telco body will cost $700,000
December 26, 2008
Senator Conroy, Minister for Communications, will spend $700,000 to establish a new body for consumer representation in telecommunications: the Australian Communications Consumers Action Network, or ACCAN.
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Telstra kicked out of NBN by Federal government
December 26, 2008
Telstra’s controversial NBN ‘proposal’ has been formally excluded from the RFP process by the Federal Government in a sensational development that has fuelled speculation on whether or not the incumbent will be given a lifeline to bid.
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Telstra to give unified communications to 10,000 staff
December 26, 2008
Telstra has upgraded 10,000 users of its internal CustomNet phone system to IP telephony in a unified communications deal that is also said to be one of the largest IP handset deployments for Polycom globally.
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How Telstra proposes to cut noise on the NBN
December 26, 2008
Telstra claims it has focused much of the engineering attention for its NBN proposal on mitigating noise and cross-talk between the node and customer premise.
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NBN door remains open for Telstra
November 29, 2008
Broadband Minister Stephen Conroy has asked voters to trust that the government’s 98 percent coverage promise for the NBN will be delivered, despite the fact it will consider Telstra’s lesser 90 percent proposal.
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Nokia to pull out of Japan
November 29, 2008
The world’s largest mobile maker has decided to pull out of the largest market on the planet.
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Senator Conroy blasts telcos over complaint levels
November 29, 2008
Communications minister Stephen Conroy has given telcos a blunt warning to either ‘lift their game’ in responding to customer complaints or face government intervention to make them do it.
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Asus claims world’s fastest smartphone
November 29, 2008
Asus is claiming that its new P565 business smartphone is the fastest in the world.
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SMS ‘confirmations’ put Hyarchis in hot water: ACMA
November 29, 2008
ACMA has released the content of alleged spam SMS messages sent by Hyarchis and suggested that if they had been ‘purely factual’ there may not have been grounds to issue a formal warning.
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Special report: Huawei steps out of the shadows
November 15, 2008
Telecoms network provider Huawei recently took a handful of journalists to its headquarters in Shenzhen, China for a chance to speak to some of the company’s executives and check out the scope of the business.
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