When it was revealed that Telstra held back the activation of hundreds of ADSL2 DSLAM Exchanges across Australia in 2008, many people where left bewildered. On one hand it was very disappointing to learn that Telstra was basically holding back the access of High Speed Broadband to thousands of Australians...

Telstra BigPond CEO Sol Trujillo recently confirmed a planned upgrade for their hybrid fibre coaxial cable network for later this year. It is expected that the upgrade will deliver fast broadband speeds of 30Mbps (30Mbit/s) to 1.7 million household subscribers by the end of 2007. The jump from the current...