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Optus Up 4G Ante V Telstra

Staff Writers June 19, 2012 No Comments

Click to enlarge Optus has completed its acquisition of Vividwireless from the Seven Group, giving it access to spectrum previously held by the communications company. The telco also announced to…

Talk Ain’t Cheap! Skype ‘Ads’ Hit

Staff Writers June 14, 2012 No Comments

Just when we thought Skype was too good to be true (and it probably is), its owners Microsoft have got fed up of footing the bills for free VoIP calls…

NBN Red-Faced After Vic Rejection

Staff Writers June 12, 2012 No Comments

Click to enlarge Moorabool Shire, located north west of Melbourne, has rejected NBN Co’s application for a 40m tower to transmit fixed wireless services following objections from the local community.…

Sean Parker’s Airtime To Destroy Skype?

Staff Writers June 7, 2012 No Comments

Airtime, launched this week, is a live video calls site, set to rival other VOIP services like Skype and will “create this better, more Utopian social reality, where the conversations…

Its LIVE: Telstra NBN Hits Tassie

Staff Writers June 4, 2012 No Comments

Click to enlarge Telstra’s NBN commercial broadband service has just been launched in Triabunna and Sorell, areas of southern Tasmania. The telco National Broadband Network service boasts downstream speeds “up…

Skype’s The Limit: Microsoft

Staff Writers June 1, 2012 No Comments

Click to enlarge “Billions.” That how many users the now Microsoft-owned Skype hopes to have chatting on its free VOIP network in the future, Skype boss Tony Bates told All…

REVEALED: Internet Traffic To Boom 7 TIMES

Staff Writers May 31, 2012 No Comments

Click to enlarge Internet traffic will grow 7-fold by 2016 in Australia, network giant Cisco has forecast. Traffic will reach 708 Petabytes – thats 1 million Gigabytes – per month…

NBN-Optus $800M Deal Green Light

Staff Writers May 28, 2012 No Comments

The Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has issued a draft determination proposing to authorise the major agreement between NBN Co and Optus for the migration of the telco’s 400,000 hybrid…

Samsung Galaxy Note Gets Ice Cream Sandwich

Staff Writers May 14, 2012 No Comments

What makes the update so special is that the Noteâ€”a hybrid phone and tablet deviceâ€”will indicate how Samsung wraps ICS on its tablet devices. Admittedly the print screen reveals the…

Hello Fibre: NBN Test Phone Service

Staff Writers May 7, 2012 No Comments

Click to enlarge Moving phone service to NBN should soon be a reality. NBN Co selected Primus to test new software designed to make it easier for telcos to offer…