The “G9″ group of telecommunications companies has renamed itself and is calling for structural separation of Telstra as it prepares its plan for the new national broadband network.
“TERRiA is now the unifying name for our consortium”, said chairman of the group, Michael Egan. “Its mission is to provide an independent and competitive communication network for [...]
Canadians are joining Americans in their outcry over ISPs allegedly blocking BitTorrent and other P2P applications. Now, two Canadian groups have now asked the privacy commissioner to investigate the activities of Bell Canada.
The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Internet Clinic (CIPPIC) is accusing Bell Canada of failing to obtain consent from its Internet customers around [...]
Linux expert Linus Torvalds announced in his blog on Wednesday that Linux kernel version 2.6.25 has been publicly released, with changes to WiFi support, file system management, and virtualization.
“It’s been long promised, but there it is now,” Torvalds wrote in the official Linux kernel release.
After ten weeks in development, a couple of weeks longer than [...]
A $500 million investment by Intel, announced in Taiwan today, is geared mainly to gaining greater interoperability between other equipment and Intel’s own mobile WiMAX chips, which are slated to ship later this year to OEMs for use in Centrino PC notebooks, said a US-based Intel spokesperson.
In a new memo of understanding (MOU) with [...]
We are so far the 8 ball with boradband speed in this country, its starting to become unacceptable.. Here is a article from Minnesota in the USA:
Comcast will begin offering a new “extreme high-speed” Internet connection in the Minnesota Twin Cities region today, with nationwide rollout expected by 2010. The new Internet service will cost [...]
Optus and Elders, which formed the joint OPEL venture, have been notified by the ALP federal government that their regional broadband contract has been terminated.
The contract was awarded in June last year by the Coalition government, and consisted of $958M in funding to help build a new regional broadband network. But the plan has been [...]
ISP TPG is trialling a Google Maps display of its customer’s line speeds, while iiNet and Internode say that their own speed maps raise questions about how money should be spent on broadband infrastructure.
iiNet and Internode made a joint statement recently questioning the validity of replacing all ADSL infrastructure as part of a new broadband [...]
