More Broadband News

• 02 November 2012

• News: NBN means new opportunities, challenges for online TV: ABC

  ABC TV is looking at extending its digital platform to streaming live television to internet users and mobile devices.

• 01 November 2012

• News: TPG bundles CCTV with broadband

  TPG has bundled cloud-based video surveillance with broadband in a new double play aimed at small and medium-sized businesses.

• News: Ciena appoints A/NZ boss

  Network specialist, Ciena Corporation, has promoted Wayne Moulton to lead its Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ) contingent as managing director in order to drive the company’s strategic vision in the region.

• News: Conroy: Abbott calls the shots regarding Coalition and NBN

  Minister for Broadband, Communications, and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, has changed tack slightly and is now advising punters to ignore Malcolm Turnbull and instead look to Tony Abbott to understand the Coalition’s plans for broadband.

• News: NBN Co still working out how to connect apartments to the NBN

  NBN Co has told a parliamentary hearing that it does not have a uniform strategy of connecting apartment buildings to the National Broadband Network (NBN).

• 31 October 2012

• News: Apple offers up to $1 per device for Motorola Mobility patents

  Apple has offered to pay Google's Motorola Mobility unit up to one dollar per device for a license to its patents covering cellular and Wi-Fi technologies.

• 30 October 2012

• News: Sandy slams mobile, wired and cable networks as far west as Michigan

  Post-Tropical Cyclone Sandy knocked out mobile, phone and cable service in many parts of the eastern U.S. on Monday, with about one in four cell sites affected in the hardest-hit band of the country between Virginia and Massachusetts, according to an FCC estimate.

• News: EE's 4G network goes live in 11 cities across the UK

  The UK's first operator-run 4G network has gone live in 11 cities today, offering “superfast” mobile download speeds to consumers and businesses.

• 25 October 2012

• News: Adam Internet rejected buyout proposals before Telstra offer

  Adam Internet resisted acquisition offers for nearly a decade before [[artnid:439915|agreeing to a deal from Telstra]], Adam Internet executive chairman, Greg Hicks, said on a conference call this morning with reporters.

• News: EE responds to 4G data plan complaints

  EE, formally Everything Everywhere, has responded to complaints about its 4G LTE data plans.

• News: Telstra buys Adam Internet in surprise agreement

  Telstra has purchased Adam Internet, the last independent ISP of South Australia, the telco confirmed this morning.

• 23 October 2012

• News: EE reveals broadband and mobile 4G prices

  EE has announced its price plans for fibre optic home broadband and mobile 4G.

• News: EE announces 4G smartphone data plans

  EE, formally Everything Everywhere, has announced its smartphone data plans ahead of launching its 4G network.

• 18 October 2012

• News: Mobile operators to speed up 4G roll out

  Ofcom has announced more plans to speed up the roll out of 4G in the UK.

• 16 October 2012

• News: NBN available to another 165,800 business and homes within 12 months: Conroy

  The National Broadband Network rollout is forging ahead with construction commencing for about 165,800 homes and businesses around the country, according to Minister for Broadband, Communications, and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy.

• 15 October 2012

• News: O2 sorry for mobile service outage

  O2 has apologised for a service outage which hit millions of its customers on Friday.

• 12 October 2012

• News: AARNet to 'step up' to dance floor for world contest

  Australian and Korean B-boys will settle their differences by videoconference in a dance battle set to go off this Sunday. Australia’s research-and-education broadband network, AARNet, will connect three large public screens in Melbourne, Perth and Seoul in a demonstration of technology bridging distant cultures.

• 10 October 2012

• News: Virgin Media boosts broadband speeds to 120Mb

  Virgin Media has started rolling out 120Mb broadband to its customers.

• 09 October 2012

• News: UK Broadband launches 4G network

  UK Broadband has announced that its 4G network is live, beating EE to the post.

• News: Alcatel-Lucent simplifies installation of 100M bps VDSL

  Alcatel-Lucent has upgraded its implementation of the VDSL2 vectoring noise cancellation technology in order to make it easier to implement, and as a result let operators offer higher broadband speeds over phone lines to more users.

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