Latest Broadband News

• 18 June 2013

• News: Evidence Technology launches new video conference managed service

  Audio visual and ICT solution provider, Evidence Technology, has launched a new video conference managed service called CyberNET.

• 12 June 2013

• News: NBN approach less "chaotic" than US broadband: The Intelligent Community Forum

  The growth of broadband in the US was more chaotic and viewed less as a national priority compared to the NBN, according to The Intelligent Community Forum.

• 10 June 2013

• News: Get a PC for just £24

  A new scheme backed by Microsoft is offering consumers in Briton PCs and laptops from just £24.

• 06 June 2013

• News: Obama pushes for higher speed broadband in schools

  U.S. President Barack Obama wants the nation's students to have access to faster broadband in their schools and libraries.

• News: Australian telcos requested more disaster exemptions in FY 2012

  Telcos declared nearly 100 more mass service disruptions on landline services in the 2012-13 financial year compared to the previous year, according to a report by the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman.

• 04 June 2013

• News: Will Netflix come to Australia?

  Netflix could shake up the Australian video streaming market if it ever chooses to enter, analysts told Computerworld Australia.

• 03 June 2013

• News: Mobile traffic hits 23,000,000,000GB in 2013

  By 2018 total mobile data traffic will likely eclipse 131,000 petabytes, shaving reached 23,000PB in 2013.

• 22 May 2013

• News: What's life really like on the NBN? (Part II)

  Kiama is perhaps best known for its ocean views and a blowhole that spouts water up to 25m in the air.

• 21 May 2013

• News: NBN v UFB: Migration is the key

  Should there by a change of government after the Australian elections in September, there will be a major review of National Broadband Network (NBN) operations and progress to date. The opposition has signalled personnel changes in the management and the board of NBN Co.

• News: Spotify's 1st birthday in Oz: top artists, top albums, and all the stats

  It's Spotify's first birthday -- the incredibly popular music streaming service, which boasts millions of tracks and thousands of albums from mainstream and independent artists, has been around in Australia for a year as of today.

• 20 May 2013

• News: M2 aids e-governance program for senior citizens

  Telco service provider and part of the M2 Telecommunications Group (ASX: MTU), iPrimus, has aided in the delivery of the Digital Local Government Program alongside the City of Whittlesea

• 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.

• 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.

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