Latest Broadband News
- 22 May 2013
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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News: Samsung to launch 5G by 2020
Samsung has announced developments in 5G which it claims will mean the technology could launch by 2020.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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News: Skype launches for Outlook.com email service
A preview of Skype for Outlook.com has launched in the UK today.
- 25 April 2013
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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.
- 21 April 2013
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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
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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.
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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.
- 18 April 2013
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News: John Lewis Broadband free with tech purchases
John Lewis has announced that it will give away free broadband with in-store technology purchases such as tablets.
- 17 April 2013
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News: Broadband to aid in app delivery: CSIRO
The next generation of broadband-enabled applications will be more about connecting households to new sensors and Cloud services than checking emails and social media invites, according to Australian national science agency, CSIRO.
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News: Coalition NBN plan provides certainty: Macquarie Telecom
Macquarie Telecom has said the Coalition’s NBN announcement is “great news” for businesses because it brings certainty that there will be an NBN if there is a change of government.
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