Broadband News
Thu, 15th Jul 2010
VIDEO - Optus: we're fixing our 3G network
An APC reader asked a probing question to Optus' engineering director today: when will you fix the 3G network? Here's a video of the answer.
Source: APC Magazine
Optus scores 50Mbps in Sydney LTE tests
Optus has achieved 50 megabits per second (Mbps) downlink and 20Mbps uplink speeds on its first Sydney trial of Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless broadband technology.
Source: Computerworld
Wed, 14th Jul 2010
Telstra, Optus to rely on old filter trials
ISPs Telstra and Optus will use the results of filter trials conducted last year to inform engineers on how to satisfy a commitment to voluntarily block child abuse content.
Source: iTnews Australia
The good news on IPv4 address supply...
...is that they are expected to run out in exactly 12 months from today, on 14 July 2011. The bad news is a forecast exhaustion date only nine months hence.
Source: iTWire
Telstra spies Brunswick NBN build deal
Telstra has confirmed it is negotiating its first potential national broadband network (NBN) construction contract, covering passive fibre rollout in the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick.
Source: iTnews Australia
ACMA gifts spectrum to Optus for 3G in regional and remote Australia
Optus has secured the rights to deploy 3G mobile services at 972 sites across regional and remote Australia from the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).
Source: Computerworld
Builders of the National Broadband Network announced, including Telstra
NBN Co has announced the winning companies that will build mainland Australia's first four National Broadband Network sites.
Source: ARN
Telstra 'price squeeze' claims go to ACCC
Competitors have acted on concerns about new Telstra pricing, lodging a complaint with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) over an alleged "price squeeze" between the incumbent's wholesale and retail margins.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Optus to release LTE assessment
Optus is to shortly release the results of its on-going Sydney Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless trials.
Source: Computerworld
Broadband 'critical' to future global development
Broadband networks are as vital to the world's economic and social future as transport, water or power, according to the United Nations-backed Broadband Commission for Digital Development.
Source: iTnews Australia
Tue, 13th Jul 2010
NBN Co to spend circa $1 billion on satellites
The NBN Co will spend up to $1 billion on two KA band satellites to deliver National Broadband Network (NBN) services to Australian households unable to access coverage via fibre or wireless.
Source: Computerworld
How would you vote on the internet filter?
Numerous major media outlets are running a poll today asking whether you will vote for a party that endorses the internet filter. Vote now!
Source: APC Magazine
Chance to seize the day on net filter
Australian ISPs have an opportunity to see off Labor's mandatory internet censorship laws, but their disunity could let it slip.
Source: Australian IT
Mandatory filtering should be dropped
If ISPs blocked child sexual abuse pages voluntarily, the government would not need to impose filtering, a child protection group says.
Source: Australian IT
yARN: Conroy's cleverest move yet on the filter
When the mandatory ISP filter got delayed last week, many detractors saw it as a big win for the anti-filter movement. But what seemed to some a humiliating back down is more likely to be a well-timed move by the Communications Minister, Senator Stephen Conroy.
Source: ARN
Mon, 12th Jul 2010
Filter response shows Conroy the way
On Friday, three of Australia's largest internet service providers (ISPs) simultaneously announced that they would filter some internet content from reaching their customers.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Do you support the Internet Filter?
In an attempt to gauge the real level of support for or against Sen. Conroy's Internet Filter proposal, a large number of IT media outlets are supporting a combined survey.
Source: iTWire
How the tech industry defused the internet filter
Howls of IT industry protest may have alerted the wider community to the Federal Government's plans to filter the internet, but it was diplomacy that secured the delay in its implementation.
Source: iTnews Australia
No opt-out for Optus, Telstra filter
Two of the three major broadband providers that have voluntarily signed up to block child abuse websites have confirmed today that customers would not be able to opt out of the providers' new filter, meaning customers may turn to smaller providers that have revealed they will not join the block in the immediate future.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Internode, iiNet, VHA won't filter for now
National broadband provider Internode this afternoon stated that -- unlike Telstra, Optus and Primus -- it would not voluntarily filter its customers' internet for websites that are known to contain child pornography and child abuse material, while iiNet said it would wait to see the detail in the proposal and VHA is awaiting a code for the mobile industry.
Source: ARN
Industry reacts to Net filter delay
There were mixed reactions from politicians, industry and lobbyists on Friday to communications minister, Stephen Conroy's revelation that the Government's controversial internet filtering legislation would be delayed for a year while a review was held into the Refused Classification category of content which the filter would block.
Source: Computerworld
NBN 101: The Internet or applications?
The Internet is often seen as a single entity; one point of contact in which all online communication and activity takes place. This is understandable: While the Internet itself is made up of thousands of inter-connected networks, systems and applications, it usually appears as a single item on your monthly bill.
Source: Computerworld
Point Cook stats reveal desire for fibre
More than 300 houses covered by a fibre-to-the-home trial network in Point Cook near Melbourne have traded their copper lines for superfast broadband, Telstra said.
Source: iTnews Australia
Conroy's filter masterstroke
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy's Friday filter announcement was obviously designed to get the toxic topic of internet filtering out of the news before the election, giving an impression of progress without a real policy change. Clever, but will the strategy work?
Source: ZDNet Australia
Sun, 11th Jul 2010
Internet filter: we're guilty until proven guilty
It would seem that Senator Conroy is on a mission to shut down the courts. First step is the Internet filter - with that in place, it won't be possible to break the law related to banned material. Easy, no more cases before the courts. What's next?
Source: iTWire
Sat, 10th Jul 2010
Q&A: National Party Senator, Barnaby Joyce, on ISP filtering, Telstra and the NBN
The leader of The Nationals in the Senate, Barnaby Joyce, is a forthright Queensland Senator who supports the ISP filter and opposes the National Broadband Network. He talks about the differences between his party and the Liberals and why he regrets not separating Telstra.
Source: ARN
Update: Conroy delays Internet filter till next year
The Federal Government's mandatory Internet filtering plans has been pushed back to next year.
Source: ARN
Fri, 09th Jul 2010
Google welcomes web filter retreat
Google has welcomed a delay in Stephen Conroy's controversial mandatory web filtering scheme but maintains the plan is still too "broad" in scope.
Source: Australian IT
Government delays mandatory net filter by a year
Stephen Conroy has capitulated to critics of his automated internet censorship scheme and will delay its compulsory implementation by a year to allow a review of censorship rules.
Source: APC Magazine
Telstra, Optus, Primus to filter child porn
Three of Australia's largest internet service providers have agreed to voluntarily block online child pornography material ahead of the federal government's planned internet filtering plan.
Source: ZDNet Australia