Two United Nations agencies on Monday announced a new commission aimed at speeding the roll-out of high-speed broadband Internet networks around the world to improve social services such as healthcare and education.
Fixed bandwidth speed demands will reach one gigabit per second (Gbps) by 2020, according to NBN Co chief executive officer Mike Quigley.
We weren't really expecting an outcry from readers when we published our article on Optus' new 'unlimited' naked ADSL2+ plans. A harsh email from Optus' corporate communications team, or a horse's head perhaps, but certainly not a dictionary.
Alcatel-Lucent has found a way to move data at 300M bps (bits per second) over two copper lines, the company said on Wednesday. However, so far it is only in a lab environment -- real products and services won't show up until next year.
The Internet industry has to regulate itself by responding to consumer demands in the wake of the recent U.S. federal court ruling that the Federal Communications Commission didn't have authority to enforce its net neutrality rules, BitTorrent CEO Eric Klinker said Monday.
Internode has announced price cuts, quota boosts and a doubling of upstream speeds for its Internode Home Fibre services in a bid to increase take up of its fibre offerings.
More than a third of Brits (35 percent) think super-fast broadband services will encourage illegal downloading, says Moneysupermarket.
Telecom New Zealand (ASX: TEL) has been given the all clear to begin exploring the commercial viability of VDSL in New Zealand following a favourable Commerce Commission ruling on the use of the technology by the company in the provision of its wholesale broadband services.
A Senate select committee has questioned the provision of the McKinsey implementation study to the NBN Co prior to it being made public by communications minister, Senator Stephen Conroy.
NBN Co will reveal final wholesale pricing on the National Broadband Network (NBN) to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) as part of an undertaking it has planned with the commission in June.
Services on the National Broadband Network (NBN) need to be charged like electricity and water, telecommunications economist, John de Ridder has told a Senate Select Committee.
Internode has upped the ante in the Internet service provider offerings battle by unveiling a range of new broadband plans.
What's more entertaining than the sight of civic leaders fawning all over Google for a little high-speed action?
The Australian market is ripe for an influx of non-traditional providers of consumer telco services, according to AAPT. Chief operating officer, David Yuile, said the local market was likely to see a UK-style evolution in which formerly non-traditional players, such as grocery retailer [[xref: http://www.tesco.com/tescotalk|Tesco|TescoTalk]], entered the market with their own consumer telephony services.
Australian ISP Internode today announced a newly signed agreement with international bandwidth wholesaler, Southern Cross Cable Network. The new agreement will provide an additional 2.5 gigabits per second (Gbps) capacity on Southern Cross' international fibre.