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• 15 May 2013

• News: Broadcasters say 700MHz auction showed lack of demand

  Broadcasters and the mobile industry had different takeaways about the level of demand for spectrum in Australia after the government failed to sell all of the 700MHz spectrum in the Digital Dividend auction.

• 13 May 2013

• News: Samsung to launch 5G by 2020

  Samsung has announced developments in 5G which it claims will mean the technology could launch by 2020.

• News: Samsung tests first 5G broadband

  Super-fast 5G broadband transmits data in the millimetre-wave band at a frequency of 28GHz at a speed of up to 1.056Gbps to a distance of up to 2 kilometres.

• 10 May 2013

• Feature: What is BT Sport?

  BT has announced its own sports channels, so here's everything you need to know about BT Sport.

• Feature: Planning the perfect holiday with Windows 8

  Thanks to Windows 8 the challenge of planning everything from a weekend break to a relaxing holiday in the sun is now much, much easier

• 06 May 2013

• News: Conroy and Turnbull lock horns over NBN

  Minister for broadband and communications, Stephen Conroy, and coalition communications spokesman, Malcolm Turnbull, have spelled out their differences over the NBN issues in an online forum, Communications Debate.

• News: 1.35 million premises added to NBN construction timetable

  NBN Co has unveiled the names of the communities that are next in line to receive high-speed fibre optic broadband.

• 30 April 2013

• News: Qualcomm calls for shared in-home cells to handle mobile demand

  Consumers will have to share small, inexpensive cells in their homes with nearby mobile users to affordably meet the growing demand for mobile data in the next decade, a Qualcomm executive said Tuesday.

• News: Telehealth vendors not fazed by NBN debate

  The NBN will be a boon to Australian healthcare regardless of which political party has its way on the final technology approach for delivery, officials from health IT vendors said at a lunch in Sydney.

• News: O2 signs deal with BT for 4G LTE network support

  O2 has struck a 10 year with BT to support 4G LTE mobile broadband for its customers.

• News: Skype launches for Outlook.com email service

  A preview of Skype for Outlook.com has launched in the UK today.

• 26 April 2013

• Test Centre: Group test: what's the best wireless router?

  PC Advisor reviews the best five wireless routers you can buy in the UK right now.

• Test Centre: Group test: what's the best security software?

  We've exhaustively tested every major internet security suite. Here we present the top 5.

• Test Centre: Group test: what's the best antivirus?

  PC Advisor reviews the top 5 antivirus programs you can buy or download in the UK right now.

• How-Tos: How to set up mobile internet on Android

  Here's our step by step guide on how to set up mobile internet data on an Android smartphone or tablet.

• 25 April 2013

• News: Amazon to rival Apple TV with its own set-top box

  Amazon is reportedly building its own set-top box to rival Apple's TV.

• 24 April 2013

• How-Tos: How to set a data usage limit on Android phone or tablet

  Here's how to set a limit to the amount of data your Android phone or tablet can use each month. This could save you money!

• 21 April 2013

• News: NBN delay would harm competition: CCC

  Any delay to the National Broadband Network (NBN) rollout as a result of political tinkering would harm competition, according to the Competitive Carriers Coalition (CCC).

• 19 April 2013

• News: VSDL2 on steroids takes off as broadband over copper declines for first time

  Broadband based on VDSL2 helped by a technology called vectoring is taking off, while older members of the DSL family are getting less popular as users around the works crave more bandwidth.

• News: Senators shred coalition $90b broadband claims

  Minister for finance and deregulation, Senator Penny Wong, and minister for broadband, communications and the digital economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, have slammed the assumptions underpinning the Coalition’s costing of Labor’s NBN.

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