Weekly Roundup: The good, the bad, and the overpriced of post-iPhone week
July 22, 2008
This week the world experienced the fallout of 3G iPhone mania, and a backhoe caused chaos throughout Queensland.
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Telstra trials speedier Next G
July 22, 2008
Telsta and its network supplier Ericsson are trialling enhanced High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) technology that could result in 42Mbps mobile broadband speeds by next year.
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Ovum says voice market booms in Asia Pacific
July 22, 2008
Telecommunication analyst group Ovum predicts that the voice market will grow from 2.2 billion connections at the end of 2008 to 3.8 billion by 2017 in the Asian region, including Australia and New Zealand.
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Optical circuit to deliver instantaneous, unlimited Internet access
July 21, 2008
Physicists have developed optical switching technology capable of delivering data at the rate of 640 Gbps, potentially yielding a 60-fold increase in Australian Internet speeds.
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iPhone sales live up to the hype
July 21, 2008
According to Apple, more than one million iPhones have been sold worldwide over a matter of three days.
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Optus outage disrupts QLD airport, emergency services
July 21, 2008
A backhoe and a faulty network card took down mobile, landline and Internet services for more than 1 million Queenslanders yesterday.
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iPhone fairy arrives at midnight for Optus customers, sane hours for everyone else
July 21, 2008
Optus is hoping to draw the faithful to an iPhone street celebration when they host a midnight in-store countdown to iPhone 3G sales on Thursday night. What, you’re not planning on camping out?
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Asia Pacific's submarine cable boom could burst
July 11, 2008
The last two years have seen a burst of new submarine cable investment in the Asian-Pacific region - the only region seeing new inter-continental cables being laid. However there is a potential for the bubble to burst if the wrong decisions are taken over the next two years.
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Naked DSL takes off for iiNet
July 11, 2008
iiNet is celebrating its decision to offer Naked DSL last year, with figures indicating over 20,000 households across Australia have taken up the service so far.
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"The knives are out" : Telstra's take on the NBN
July 11, 2008
Telstra has hit out at its critics with claims that the release of the National Broadband Network (NBN) regulatory submissions has lifted the veil to reveal a unified attack on the telco.
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