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  • Broadband booms in the Naughties

    Global Internet access has exploded over the last decade from about 350 million to 1.6 billion, according to new research. More than a third of Internet users worldwide will connect via broadband, according to a BuddeComm report. About 500 million people will be on fixed-line technologies by year’s end. Almost two-thirds of users will subscribe to DSL connections, about 20 per cent via cable modem and only 10 to 15 per cent will use fibre.

  • Telstra tweaks SMB mobile broadband plans

    A week after Telstra (ASX:TLS) increased the data allowances across its range of wireless broadband plans the telco has announced similar improvements for small and medium businesses.

  • Telstra boosts wireless broadband plans

    Telstra has responded to Australia’s rapid wireless broadband adoption and given its wireless broadband plans a boost, increasing data allowances across its range of plans.

  • Ericsson demos HSPA at 42 Mbps

    Ericsson has demonstrated one part of the technology that will make speeds of up to 42 Mbps (bits per second) possible in 3G networks. However, a lot of work remains before services can be launched.

  • TeliaSonera launches first commercial LTE services

    Mobile operator TeliaSonera has launched the world's first commercial LTE (Long-Term Evolution) networks, in the central parts of Stockholm and Oslo, it said on Monday. The service will become available on Tuesday, and cost 599 Swedish kronor (US$84) per month, but until July 1 users will pay 4 Swedish kronor, according to Erik Hallberg, head of Mobility Services at TeliaSonera.

  • Ericsson launches broadband 3G module

    Ericsson has launched a mobile broadband 3G module in a move to adapt high-speed broadband to its new generation of handsets. The C3607w is Ericsson's smallest, lightest and fastest mobile broadband module, consuming 40 per cent less power than previous generation models. It will be commercially available from early 2010.

  • Perth joins Adelaide with $50m WiMax network

    Following last month’s news that Adelaide will get a $3 million WiMax mobile broadband network, the Seven Network has announced plans to build a $50 million WiMax network in Perth.

  • 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 the pricey country for mobile broadband: OECD

    Mobile broadband users in Australia pay more than in any other Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) country according to a new report released by the organisation, which measured mobile broadband usage of the 30 member countries in three brackets: high use, medium use and low use.

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