It now appears that the Fibre To The Node contract will either go to Testra or a consortium representing the remainder of the Australian carriers.

The OPEL contract for regional and remote broadband access has been cancelled.

Media pundits have indicated that digital radio is doomed because GCap, one of Britain's largest commercial radio operators, announcing it would quit digital radio to concentrate on analogue and online services.

Professor Jock Given, a professor of media and communications at Swinburne University, who specialises in digital broadcasting has predicted digital radio will struggle to attract support and that users will move to iPods and online content.

Professor Given's argument is reasonable where you have existing analogue services for which most families have 10 or more radios competing with new digital radio services where families have 0 radios. Professor Given has failed to mention that new mobile phone handsets soon to come onto the market will have digital radio tuners built into the handset. With the rate of change of handsets, approximately 12-18 months, most of the youth market will have digital radio tuners in their hands very soon. For youth the quest ... Read More »

Opel has purchased regional wireless licenses from Austar. Read More »

Telstra has submitted a new model to the ACCC for competitor access to Band 2 Exchanges. The new model called the "Efficient Access" pricing method gives the same result as the previous model - $30 per month. Read More »

The Labor Party is now in Government in Australia and Telstra has upped the rhetoric in its campaign to roll the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and to force the Government to remove regulations preventing Telstra from setting the price for competitors to access infrastructure. Is the Labor Party about to cave in to Telstra? Read More »

Telstra's Mobile Network covers 98% of Population - Numbers and Facts Don't Add Up. Go out into the country and turn your NextG phone on as you pass each small town and you should see that your phone has coverage if the 98% coverage is to be believed. Read More »

Help Design the Next Network - Digital Network 2 - Join our forum and contribute. Read More »

Australia blocks illegal website content. Network engineers to be at the forefront of action against illegal website content. Read More »

Banks are proposing the use of personal card readers provided to their customers for use when completing transactions over the Internet. Read More »