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Tuesday, 9th February 2010

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Optus cable to hit 100Mbit/s by mid-2010

APC Magazine - 0 Comments

The nation's number two telco Optus today said it was on schedule to upgrade the speed of its HFC cable network in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane to 100Mbps by mid-2010.

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ISPs still buying ADSL kit

ZDNet Australia - 0 Comments

Australian internet service providers are increasing their purchases of ADSL equipment, according to Ericsson, despite the potential for the construction of the National Broadband Network to make such investments irrelevant in the long term.

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Exetel drops infringement policy after iiNet win

iTnews Australia - 0 Comments

ISP Exetel had modified its policy for privacy infringement processes in the wake of Justice Cowdroy's landmark ruling in favour of iiNet last Thursday in the Federal Court.

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Rudd non-committal on copyright law change chances

Computerworld - 0 Comments

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has shied away from committing to legislative change to copyright enforcement in the wake of the AFACT v iiNet decision at the Federal Court of Australia last week.

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iiNet ruling casts cloud on web media

Australian IT - 0 Comments

The Federal Court's decision last week not to hold Perth-based internet service provider iiNet liable for peer-to-peer online copyright infringement has created uncertainty for providers of legal internet movie and TV services.

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Monday, 8th February 2010

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Conroy meets with Google for YouTube filtering

iTnews Australia - 1 Comment

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy had entered discussions with Google to block access to video content that was not technically feasible to filter at the ISP level.

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TIO website hit by malware

iTnews Australia - 0 Comments

The website of the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) has suffered a malware attack that caused it to be taken offline today.

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NBN Co hunt for test sites, NOC and data centre

iTnews Australia - 0 Comments

NBN Co is finalising the selection of several "first release sites" across Australia where it will validate its network design in areas it believes replicate the challenges it will experience nationwide.

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iiNet: The whys and what nows

ZDNet Australia - 0 Comments

Last week the Federal Court ruled that internet service providers are not responsible for copyright violation by their customers. This is an important decision not just for iiNet, which spent around $4 million defending the case, but for all ISPs in Australia and, indeed, globally.

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Speculation grows on Seven's 4G push

Australian IT - 0 Comments

Kerry Stokes is best known for his media interests, a sizeable collection that spans newspapers, radio, magazines, online as well as pay and free-to-air television.

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Industry: Conroy's urge for piracy code of conduct is premature

ARN - 0 Comments

Broadband Minister, Senator Stephen Conroy's calls for the ISP and movie industry to formulate a bilateral code of conduct does not address the root cause of copyright disputes, according to industry watchers.

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Fee cuts to boost networks' revenues

Australian IT - 0 Comments

Stephen Conroy has slashed licence fees in a deal ahead of the spectrum sale.

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Internet TV braces for Australian push

Australian IT - 0 Comments

In the US it's often referred to as "over-the-top TV", but in Australia, it lurches along with the humble handle of internet protocol TV.

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ACCC trying to regulate the NBN, and much more, warns Telstra

iTWire - 0 Comments

Telstra has warned that rule changes proposed by the ACCC to 'declared' data transmission services could effectively extend regulation to "NBN Co's proposed new bitstream ethernet services...wholesale DSL, broadband cable Internet, IP-VPN, and VPLS services in the access network." Most of Telstra's competitors disagree.

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INTERVIEW: Michael Malone still excited, after 16 years

APC Magazine - 0 Comments

We spoke to Michael Malone shortly after the iiNet court victory.

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Will the AFACT v iiNet case help reduce the rate of online piracy?

Computerworld - 0 Comments

A Federal Court judge last week through out a high-profile copyright infringement case against ISP, iiNet, brought by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT).

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Saturday, 6th February 2010

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Australian Democrats calls for radical overhaul of Internet legislation

iTWire - 0 Comments

The Australian Democrats says the current legislative framework for the Internet and related industries is "ill-fitting and ill-serving making it difficult and prohibitive for the Australian Industry to operate with certainty." The party is proposing a radical overhaul.

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All you ever wanted to know about LTE but were afraid to ask

iTWire - 0 Comments

3G Americas, a wireless industry trade association representing the GSM family of technologies including LTE, has published what is says is a "highly anticipated resource report" on the evolution of mobile technologies to LTE and beyond and designed to be read by "interested members of the general public."

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Ericsson readies demo of 84Mbit/s HSPA

iTnews Australia - 0 Comments

Ericsson has announced that it will give the world's first demonstration of 84Mbit/s High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) technology at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona later this month.

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Friday, 5th February 2010

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Pipe shareholders to decide on TPG merger

iTnews Australia - 0 Comments

Pipe Networks has scheduled a Scheme Meeting, set down for March 12, in which its shareholders will be able to vote on whether to proceed with a $373m takeover offer from TPG.

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