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A $15-$20 billion compensation payment to Telstra over its copper network appears to have drove the Labor government in building the current NBN plan in order to avoid such a payment.
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The creator of the Great Firewall of China has come out to the public spotlight and is reported to have said that the firewall needs improvement if it needs to combat people trying to bypass the firewall in order to access sites blocked by the Government, such as Facebook and Twitter.
The Government has struck a major coup in its communications policy when the bill that would separate Telstra’s wholesale arm – which provides the copper lines to other telecommunications companies and internet service providers – and its retail arm has passed the lower house.
Twenty-four telecom operators – including Vodafone, SingTel, China Unicom, China Telecom, Telenor, TeleSonera, Sprint, T-Mobile, Orange , AT&T and Verizon Wireless – have announced that they will form together a group known as the Wholesale Applications Community. The group will have the backing of the GSMA consortium and will be backed by LG Electronics, Samsung and Sony Ericsson.
iiNet has been given a huge victory against a long-running lawsuit by the film and TV studios represented by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT); which included Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warber Bros, 20th Century Fox, Disney and the Seven Network.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has threatened the telecommunications industry with a plan to add additional reforms to the Telecommunications Act after an report by the industry’s ombudsman said that there was a massive spike in complaints from customers.
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In its lawsuit from the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT), Perth-based iiNet has used the Telecommunications Act as part of their defence, arguing that the request from AFACT to act on its notices of alleged infringement would violate the privacy provisions under Section 276 of the Act.
The news article revealing the secret deal between Vodafone New Zealand and the third carrier in the country 2degrees that was reported on the National Business Review newspaper has found its way on the Wikileaks website in servers located in several countries, including Sweden and the United States.
Starting today, Telstra has announced that it will be making any calls to the Italian city of L’Aquila free; as Australians are calling the city to check on their family members and friends after the recent earthquake, measuring at a magnitude of 6.3.
Shareholders for telecommunications operator Hutchison, who run the 3 network in Australia, have approved a proposed merger with the Australian operations of the UK-based Vodafone mobile phone operator in what will be a major shakeup in the mobile phone sector in Australia.
Telecommunication companies Telstra and Optus have seen their communication infrastructure gone as flooding in northern Queensland and massive bushfires in the State of Victoria; with Telstra expecting the bill to repair the damaged services to be in the millions.
Sol Trujillo, the guy who took over Telstra and made it into a love/hate relationship between it and the consumer, has written a piece in BusinessWeek that basically outlined a potential plan that Barack Obama’s stimulus package should be used in upgrading the United States’ communications infrastructure.
One of the reasons why the filter should not be implemented is that it would slow down the network speeds since it would be checking all submitted addresses to a list to allow you to either be allowed or denied access; however, if the filter goes ahead on the Optus network, it would slow down the already crippled network.
ispONE, a wholesale telecommunications provider that services more than 150 providers in rural Australia, has said that it will ditch using Optus’ network in favour of Telstra because of their network footprint, along with the small returns in profit.