The federal government has finally announced the release of the 'Request for Proposals' (RFP) to build the new high speed National Broadband Network. Up to $4.7 billion has been granted by the government to the successful bidder to build a network which must deliver broadband speeds of 12Mbit...

Back in the early stages of Australian Broadband Internet development, namely 'Cable', we witnessed Telstra and Optus pitted against each other in a race to rollout high speed Cable Broadband networks. Sure one could argue that competition is a 'good thing', although a duopoly may not...

Fibre-to-the-Home is slowly rolling out as an initiative between Telstra and developers is set to provide 1800 homes with a new Broadband services that will support streaming high definition video content by early 2008. The FTTH network will roll out Broadband Internet, Television & Telephone services...

The widely anticipated Broadband network deal for the country has finally been signed by both the Federal Government and the Optus led consortium. Ironically, the $1Billion tax payer funded Broadband network development program has been given the final nod only days before Telstra take Communications...

Telstra BigPond has announced a 30Mbit cable network upgrade toward the end of the year which will eventually be made available to 2.7 million Australian households. The upgrade could eventually witness broadband speeds of 50 - 100 Mbit/s be implemented as an alternative to a FTTN in metro areas. Mr...