Posts Tagged ‘telecommunications’

Gaza: Israel destroys main telecommunications company with air strike

MEMO correspondent Mohammed Asad explains how Israel is continuing its systematic destruction of Gaza’s infrastructure with the bombing of the Palestine Telecommunications company in Gaza City. The building’s destruction will make it more difficult to show the world Israeli crimes in Gaza, says Asad. Source

Congress orders telecommunications companies to clean up TOXIC lead cables

(NaturalNews) Hidden beneath the dirt of America’s vast landscape are many thousands of miles of lead-covered cables that Congress says are polluting water and… Source

Al-Bashir’s Men in the Telecommunications Sector

In May 2011, Sudanese media reported on a commotion that had broken out in the Sudatel hall when a debate erupted amongst the shareholders of Sudatel Telecom Group Ltd., which is the largest public telecommunications company in Sudan. The 2010 financial reports showed that Expresso, the holding company of Sudatel investments abroad, had sold 30% […]

Telecommunications Whistleblower Exposes Truth Regarding Cell Phone Towers

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TPG reveals $69.99 unlimited NBN plan

news National provider broadband provider TPG has revealed it is planning to offer at least one plan on the National Broadband Network’s fibre infrastructure featuring the same unlimited downloads it offers on ADSL networks, with speeds of 12Mbps and a monthly charge of $69.99 including a home telephone line. The company is well-known for its […]

iiNet to launch 4G through Optus

news National broadband provider iiNet this morning announced it had signed a deal with Optus to start reselling access to the SingTel subsidiary’s 4G mobile broadband network, with services to start “in the coming months”. Optus several weeks ago opened its new 4G network to consumers in Sydney, Perth and Newcastle, with Melbourne launching late […]

iiNet to launch 4G through Optus

news National broadband provider iiNet this morning announced it had signed a deal with Optus to start reselling access to the SingTel subsidiary’s 4G mobile broadband network, with services to start “in the coming months”. Optus several weeks ago opened its new 4G network to consumers in Sydney, Perth and Newcastle, with Melbourne launching late […]

Explainer: what is 4G?

This article is by Mark Gregory, a senior lecturer in Electrical and Computer Engineering at RMIT University. It was first published on The Conversation and is re-published here with permission. analysis If you’re looking to buy a new smartphone or computer you’ve probably seen advertisements and offers for 4G-compatible devices. You might even own a […]

Explainer: what is 4G?

This article is by Mark Gregory, a senior lecturer in Electrical and Computer Engineering at RMIT University. It was first published on The Conversation and is re-published here with permission. analysis If you’re looking to buy a new smartphone or computer you’ve probably seen advertisements and offers for 4G-compatible devices. You might even own a […]

The lost cause of American political fact-checkers

This article is by David Smith, a lecturer in American politics and foreign policy at the University of Sydney. It was first published on The Conversation and is re-published here with permission. “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” — Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Political fact checkers seem to perform a […]

The lost cause of American political fact-checkers

This article is by David Smith, a lecturer in American politics and foreign policy at the University of Sydney. It was first published on The Conversation and is re-published here with permission. “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” — Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Political fact checkers seem to perform a […]

Sell off the NBN? Abbott won’t confirm or deny

news Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has repeatedly refused to confirm or deny whether the Coalition would sell off finished portions of the National Broadband Network infrastructure if it won the next Federal Election, stating only that the Coalition believed the private sector could deliver broadband to Australia better than the Government. Earlier this week, Abbott […]

Optus launches Motorola RAZR V

news Google-owned US handset manufacturer Motorola has launched its latest high-end Android-based smartphone in Australia, the RAZR V, through the nation’s number two telco Optus. The RAZR V is the latest in Motorola’s RAZR line, and like many competing models launching this year, runs version 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) of Google’s Android operating system, which […]

Nokia shutters Aussie development facility

news Finnish mobile manufacturer Nokia has revealed plans to close an Australian development facility which was one of the main global software groups working on the Qt application development toolkit which Nokia acquired with its 2008 buy of Norwegian company Trolltech. “We have received word that the Brisbane Australia office, consisting of the teams working […]

CBA outage took down CommSee

news The Commonwealth Bank’s wide-ranging outage also took down its customer relationship management platform CommSee, one of its main unions has revealed, in a move which further illustrates how extensive the technology-related problems suffered by the bank over the past week truly have been. On Thursday last week, according to sources, a patch was issued […]

Brisbane Airport deploys VCE private cloud

news Brisbane Airport today announced it had selected technology from the VMware, Cisco and EMC coalition to deploy a new private cloud computing environment to meet its server processing needs, reportedly migrating on a previous IBM platform along the way. The rollout was disclosed in a statement distributed by Cisco this morning. “To achieve our […]

Pacific Fibre cancels Tasman/US cable project

news A little over two years since it formed with the aim of building fibre-optic submarine cables between Australia, New Zealand and the United States, local telecommunications venture Pacific Fibre has folded, citing an inability to attract sufficient funding for the project. When it formed in March 2010, Pacific Fibre’s backers included The Warehouse founder […]

Take that, Telstra: Optus has 500 4G towers

news The nation’s number two telco Optus has revealed it has already upgraded some 500 mobile phone towers across Australia to support high-speed 4G mobile broadband services, in a rapid-fire rollout aimed at curtailing Telstra’s lead in the provision of the next-general mobile services. In a wide-ranging briefing yesterday, Optus also noted it had started […]

Five ways the NBN is better than Google Fiber

opinion This week Google finally launched its Google Fiber service in the US. But don’t be lured by the company’s sweet, sweet promises of cheap, unlimited fibre broadband to your home. Australia’s National Broadband Network will be five times as good as Google Fiber. And here’s why. Over the past week, since technology giant Google […]

Famed StarCraft hosts ‘Tastosis’ hit Australia

news Australia is shortly to play host to two of the biggest celebrities in the global StarCraft II competitive gaming scene, with commentators Tasteless and Artosis to arrive in Sydney in mid-August to host one of the nation’s largest and lucrative tournaments in the local history of electronic sports. The pair — Nick ‘Tastless’ Plott […]

‘Bring your own app’ revolution hits Australia

news Australian organisations are increasingly allowing their staff to use their own software at work, in a trend being dubbed “Bring Your Own Apps” or BYOA, according to a new survey of Australian chief information officers and other senior IT staff. In a statement released yesterday, analyst firm Telsyte said it had recently surveyed more […]

Telstra increases mobile, fixed phone costs

news The nation’s biggest telco Telstra has broadly increased its charges for fixed-line telephony services, a move that comes on the back of similar price increases unveiled at the beginning of this month for mobile customers. In a blog post late last week, the company’s executive direct of customer service (Telstra consumer), Peter Jamieson, wrote […]

Advancing a competition agenda

This article is by Bill Morrow, the chief executive of Vodafone Australia (pictured, right). It first appeared in the Australian Financial Review newspaper and is replicated here with permission. opinion A fundamental part of being human is the desire to communicate, express emotions, and exchange ideas. Telecommunications companies like Vodafone help facilitate this universal need […]

ASUS PadFone docks in Australia

news Taiwanese electronics giant ASUS this morning announced that its combination smartphone, tablet and netbook device the PadFone, would launch in Australia through Harvey Norman from 14 August, retailing locally for $999. The core of the PadFone is a smartphone running version 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) of Google’s Android platform. The device features a 4.3″ […]

Disastrous patch cripples CommBank

news The Commonwealth Bank of Australia is currently reeling with internal chaos and some service delivery problems, following what appears to be a disastrous misapplication of an operating system patch to thousands of desktop PCs and hundreds of servers last week. According to sources, on Thursday last week a patch was issued using Microsoft’s System […]

Anonymous posts hacked AAPT data

news The loose knit group of Internet activists known as ‘Anonymous’ over the weekend published some 3.5 gigabytes of data sourced from Australian telco AAPT, in protest against a wide-ranging package of surveillance and data retention reforms currently proposed by the Federal Government. In a statement which appeared to be by Anonymous and posted on […]

IT price comparisons not useful, says AIIA

news The IT industry’s peak lobby group today said it was “not useful” to directly compare prices on technology goods and services between Australia and other countries and that increased Australian prices on such goods reflected different conditions and protections locally compared with other countries. In May, following a public campaign on the issue by […]

Google didn’t quite destroy Aussie Wi-Fi data

news Search giant Google this week revealed it has not yet deleted all of the payload data its Street View cars had collected over the past several years as they brushed past Wi-Fi networks on their journeys around Australia, contrary to a statement in May 2011 that the data had been deleted. In April 2010, […]

Turnbull needs evidence for FTTN claims

analysis A consensus is developing amongst National Broadband Network commentators that Shadow Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull needs to provide more evidence that Fibre to the Node is the best style of broadband infrastructure rollout for Australia’s long-term telecommunications needs. Last week, Turnbull published an article on his website in response to a television appearance made […]

Carbon Tax: How will it hit servers?

blog How much impact will the Federal Government’s so-called Carbon Tax have on server hosting costs? According to Aidan Tudehope, the managing director of Macquarie Telecom’s hosting division, quite a lot. Tudehope has published a decent analysis of the situation on the blog of Macquarie Telecom-associated cloud computing provider Ninefold. A useful excerpt: “Lets select […]

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