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• Internode offers IPv6 services in native mode on its national network

  Internode is offering IPv6 services in native mode on its national ADSL network. The broadband provider said it had been operating a native IPv6 backbone from mid-2008 but it was only available to those with a direct Ethernet connection or with the ability to tunnel IPv6 through an IPv4 connection. The new offering is being run across the company's national network and provides concurrent IPv6 and IPv4 PPP access for any router or computer that supports it.
  

• Internode MD smashes world record electric car distance

  Internode managing director, Simon Hackett, has broken the world record distance for driving an electric car on a single charge. Hackett and co-driver Emilis Prelgauskas drove a Teslar Roadster — owned by Hackett and the only one of its kind currently in Australia — 501 kilometres on a single charge. The record was set as part of the Global Green Challenge.

• Internode wireless booster hits shelves

  Internode has released an antenna to boost the connection of its NodeMobile Data wireless broadband service.

• Trans-Pacific cable gets green light

  The PIPE Networks undersea cable system, PIPE Pacific Cable (PPC-1), has successfully undergone tests, through the transmission of IP packets between Australia and the US, ahead of its launch next month.

• Top Internet companies join forces over competitive NBN model

  The heads of five of Australia’s top Internet and telecommunications companies have joined forces to call for a pro-competitive approach towards the National Broadband Network (NBN).

• Internode appoints COO to drive business transformation

  National ISP Internode has appointed its first chief operating officer to manage its customer service, sales, media and product management business units.

• Internode chief defends NBN startup costs

  Less than a week after it was revealed the CEO of the federal government’s NBN company will be paid nearly $2 million a year for the job, the managing director of ISP Internode Simon Hackett has said the appointment is good value for money.

• Internode brings naked ADSL to the Tassie masses

  Internode has launched its 'NakedExtreme' naked ADSL service in Tasmania, following its mainland launch in August last year. The new service is expected to fill in metropolitan broadband blackspots that currently affect the island.

• Internode enters fixed phone line arena

  Internode has launched its first fixed-voice telephone service, NodeLine, which the company claims can save households 25 per cent on their phone bill.

• Internode enters VoIP trunking market

  ISP Internode has launched its NodePhone Business Trunks service aimed at businesses VoIP telephone services.

• Internode spends $10m on 57 exchange broadband expansion

  ISP Internode has announced a $10 million network expansion plan that will nearly double the capacity of its ADSL2+ broadband coverage over the next 12 months.

• Internode pours $4M on CRM

  Internode has splurged $4 million on new hosted Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems to replace an internally built platform.
  

• Internode kickstarts its mobile broadband

  Internet service provider (ISP), Internode, has finally jumped on the mobile wireless broadband bandwagon with a new service.

• US FTTH model could cut NBN costs, risk: Internode

  Much of the risk and associated cost with the roll out of the federal government’s proposed $43 billion national broadband network (NBN) could be averted through modeling its roll out on AT&T’s US U-Verse fibre to the home network, a senior ISP network engineer has said.

• ISPs hail National Broadband Network announcement

  Australian Internet service providers (ISPs) have lauded the announcement by the federal government that it will establish a new company to build the National Broadband Network (NBN).