Vocus Communications' new chairman, David Spence, has flagged the emergence of retail service providers on the National Broadband Network (NBN) as a growth opportunity as the company moves to list on the ASX.
Vocus Communications has been sold to an ASX-listed private equity firm for $20 million.
Woolworths is to restructure its communications services over the coming year following the conclusion of a 12 month enterprise-wide review.
The Department of Finance and Deregulation has announced its Telecommunications Commodities, Carriage and Associated Services panel.
The Australian Crime Commission (ACC) will overhaul its voice and networking infrastructure, flagging that it will simplify and consolidate its fixed-line voice telephony contractual arrangements and deploy a higher capacity secondary data network.
Defence continues its IT overhaul with the announcement that it will deploy a new multi-node computer cluster and outsource its help desk service for the Defence Science & Technology Organisation (DSTO).
Leading Web content providers -- including Google, Yahoo, Netflix and Microsoft -- are conducting early-stage conversations about creating a shared list of customers who can access their Web sites via IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol.
iiNet has taken a swing at the Federal Government’s mandatory ISP-level filter, calling it an “ideological approach aimed at a political objective”.
The Department of Finance and Deregulation will establish a panel of suppliers for the provision of Internet-based network connections as part of its move to establish new whole-of-government arrangements for the procurement of a range of telecommunications and related products and services.
South Australian local councils are expected to gain access to new telecommunication services once the existing contract for fixed voice and mobile services expires on 30 June.
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.
Blink Mobile Technology’s myAnswers service picked up the Award for Innovation at the 2010 Australian Telecommunications User Group (ATUG) Awards. The awards were presented by communications minister, Stephen Conroy, at the Australian Technology Park in Sydney. Blink Mobile Technologies received recognition for innovation for its myAnswers service, which is built on a ‘Service as a Provider’ business model and is designed to help businesses build mobile phone applications that service and deploy information to customers.
Australian Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and telecommunication carriers have shrugged off any notion that free Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services such as Skype are threatening their businesses.
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Following the release of Telstra’s half year results analysts agree the telco's CEO David Thodey has some major work to do to turn the ailing company around.