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• Regional Australia suffers from lack of broadband: Conroy

  More than $3 billion and 30,000 jobs are lost in regional areas each year due to insufficient broadband infrastructure, according to Minister for Broadband Stephen Conroy.

• NSW uni plugs in 10Gbps connection

  The University of NSW has upgraded its network connection to AARNet to 10Gbps with a view to enabling new projects that require high bandwidth or large amounts of data exchange.

• Age no barrier to learning tech skills

  New Internet kiosks designed to get senior citizens exploring the World Wide Web have begun rolling out across the country, the first of which are already in action

• Illegal downloaders face broadband ban

  Aggressive efforts to cut off illegal file sharers from the internet, originally rejected in the government's Digital Britain report, are back on with a new plan which effectively takes communications regulator Ofcom out of the loop as an online anti-piracy enforcer.

• 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.

• NBN Co must not become ‘pork barreling bureaucracy’

  News that the CEO of the Federal Government’s National Broadband Network company, Mike Quigley, will pocket upwards of $2 million per year has raised questions whether the cost of running the company may reduce the deployment of broadband services across Australia.

• Adelaide to get $3m WiMax network

  A joint state and federal government project with ISP Adam Internet will see metropolitan Adelaide get a WiMax wireless broadband network to cover the city’s blackspot areas that cannot get ADSL2+.

• Australia leads the way in IPv6 adoption: OECD

  Australia is one of the countries leading the way in IPv6 adoption, according to an Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report which calls for more network operators to follow its lead as IPv4 is running out.

• 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.

• Telstra offers Acer laptops with built-in mobile broadband

  Telstra has added three Acer notebooks with built-in mobile broadband to [[xref:http://www.techworld.com.au/tag/nextg|its Next G device|TechWorld :: Next G]] range.

• NBN will cause a social tipping point: Senator Kate Lundy

  The National Broadband Network (NBN) will give the Government the incentive it needs to invest in the digital sector, according to ACT Senator Kate Lundy who spoke at a Wikimedia event in Canberra today.

• Fibre to premises gives new housing estate 100Mbps

  University Hill in Victoria is a new 400 house residential, commercial and retail precinct which is believed to be the first of its type in Australia to have 100Mbps fibre to the premises (FTTP) connectivity available to each building.

• A third of Europeans have never used the Internet

  Nearly a third of Europeans have never been online, according to a EU report.

• ICT lobby groups: time to give the NBN some spin

  Now that the first towns to be connected to the National Broadband Network (NBN) have been announced, it is time for the government and the ICT industry to work on promoting the rollout, according to two Tasmanian ICT lobby groups.

• Verizon adds hotspots to consumer broadband

  Verizon Communications offered most of its wired broadband customers free access to Wi-Fi hotspots around the U.S. on Monday, supplementing its wireline offerings on the same day it announced a 5.2 percent drop in revenue from that business.