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Telstra has called on the ACCC to relinquish its telecommunications cost modelling work to an independent party. Read more »

Nortel has responded to international predictions of its impending demise, saying the company is in good shape and far from bankruptcy. Read more »

The federal government must now develop value-added broadband services if it wants to grow the country’s fledgling digital economy, according to the ACS. Read more »

40G optical fibre network technology will soon see general deployment, according to consulting firm Ovum. Read more »

Users aboard seafaring vessels will soon have access to more reliable wireless connectivity, thanks to collaboration between Australian and Singaporean researchers. Read more »

Telstra has blasted the recently released RTIRC report on regional telecoms, saying its recommendations will set services in rural areas even further back. Read more »

AAPT has announced it will withdraw from the NBN bid consortium Terria to pursue its own agenda. Read more »

Ovum has released a report detailing three scenarios for the telecoms industry in 2009. Read more »

Industry body Communications Alliance has comissioned a study to determine the state of IPv6 adoption in Australia and how it poses challenges to business. Read more »

Telstra has openly criticised competitor Terria for its "monopolist" NBN plan. Read more »

Australia's Minister for Broadband has set the deadline for National Broadband Network proposals for 26 November 2008. Read more »

A new agreement hatched by 3 to allow users to roam onto Telstra's Next G network will save 3 from being squeezed out of the mobile market, analysts say. Read more »

Yorke Peninsula, in South Australia, has become the first region in Australia to feature region-wide WiMAX connectivity. Read more »

Australia is being left behind in the broadband race, with the country still debating a fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) network while the rest of the world is already planning for fibre-to-the-home (FTTH). Read more »

As part of a new $1 million initiative, CSIRO will collaborate with several other government departments to produce a new technology to work where traditional GPS systems cannot. Read more »

A new ruling from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) requires Telstra to report on third-party access to its exchanges. Read more »

Australians could soon experience internet speeds of one terabit per second, thanks to an innovation by scientists from the University of Sydney. Read more »

International satellite communications provider Vizada will now supply its Thuraya services to the Australian market. Read more »

Huawei and Optus are working on a 'Mobile Innovation Centre' to develop new mobile broadband technologies. Read more »

Optus has announced a $315 million plan to extend its mobile network to cover 98% of the Australian population. Read more »