In a contradictory announcement made by Telstra, the telecommunication giant revealed that it's now planning to offer wholesale ADSL2+ services to competitors. This statement comes only after several months of rolling out ADSL2+ services to over 900 new exchanges. The remarkable turn-around of policy...

The 2020 Summit was a success for many various reasons such as it raised concerns, sprouted ideas and addressed important issues challenging Australia and it's future prosperity. In the final report of the Summit, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was urged to split the wholesale and retail elements of Telstra...

Competition or no competition, that is the answer! The deconstruction of Telstra as a vertically integrated Telecommunication company could be nigh as the push for it's structural separation gains momentum. In a report released by 'Competition Economists Group', who were commissioned by Telstra's...

Due to delay from Telstra in releasing critical network information for all proponents of the FTTN NBN bid to examine, Senator Stephen Conroy was left with no alternative accept to extend the deadline for proposal submissions until 12 weeks after the information is released. Telstra had recently provided...

Although not made from earth, the name TERRiA is rock solid and has been adopted (less the Firma of course) as the new name for the group of carriers formerly known as the 'G9' (or should I say the G8). The consortium is made up from Optus, AAPT, iiNet, Internode, Primus, Macquarie Telecom, SOUL...

There appears to be no stopping the war over Broadband in Australia with a group of ten leading Australia ISP's taking out a full page newspaper advertisement to promote their new website 'fairgobroadband.com.au'. The new site basically takes a shot at potential Telstra pricing if it were...

After recent talks with Optus-led G9 Consortium, German based Telecommunication group 'Deutsche Telekom' is examining prospects behind partnering G9 for a national broadband network bid. Optus chief executive Paul O'Sullivan has also called for the NBN bid deadline to be extended due to proposal...

In a recent speech on the upcoming National Broadband Network by OPTUS CEO Paul O'Sullivan, he stated that his overall message could be summed up in one phrase 'Australia cannot take Competition in Broadband for granted'. In colloquial terminology using a famous Aussie expression it sounds...

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...