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  • Almost 200,000 telco complaints in the past year: TIO

    For all the talk of reforming telecommunications customer service in the past year, almost 200,000 new consumer complaints were received by the office of the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) in the last 12 months.

  • Don't make ISPs online problem gambling policemen: IIA

    The Internet Industry Association (IIA) has cautioned against placing the onus of protecting problem gamblers on internet service providers, instead arguing that problem gambling must be managed at the point of service access.

  • Federal government quietly changes copyright document

    The Attorney’s General Department (AGD) has made unannounced changes to its latest discussion paper on copyright, removing a proposal for a streamlined process for copyright owners to access user details from ISPs for legal reasons

  • Quintet nations agree on cybercrime action plan

    The Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime is further entrenched as the key international legal instrument for tackling online crime following the third annual Quintet meeting of Attorneys-General in Sydney this week.

  • Internode MD Simon Hackett now also CTO

    Adelaide-based internet service provider, Internode, may have made four technical roles including that of CIO and network engineer redundant on 2 September, but managing director, Simon Hackett, has added on the role of chief technical officer (CTO).

  • Acqusitions lead iiNet to 48% revenue hike

    Perth-based ISP iiNet (ASX:IIN) has recorded a 48 per cent increase in revenue for the year ending 30 June 2011, citing acquisitions of both Netspace and AAPT’s consumer division as the driving factors behind the growth.

  • Industry must cooperate to combat illegal downloads: iiNet

    Internet service provider (ISP) iiNet has called for a whole-of-industry discussion to make content more available online, following the High Court’s decision today to grant special leave to appeal by a film and television industry conglomerate, who are suing the ISP for copyright infringement by its customers.

  • IPv6 guide part 3: technology issues

    Recognising that translation technology is often unstable, enterprises are opting for a dual-stack environment when undertaking migrations to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).

  • Six more ISPs sign up to iCode

    An additional six local internet service providers (ISPs) have joined the Internet Industry Association's iCode, which brings the organisation one step closer in achieving 100 per cent compliance.

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