News
Leadership troubles cloud data retention plans; ? as AMTA concerned over the rush; Alcatel-Lucent Shifts direction; Vodafone NZ and Spark do badly on customer satisfaction; Brocade acquire Riverbed's SteelApp business; Mitel to release UCaaS in Australia
9th February 2015
Data retention debate gets serious: Industry complains about cost secrecy; Abbott tries to wedge Shorten; 12 reasons why it?s a bad idea. Vodafone frees up weekends; It?s on! BT to buy EE for ?12.5 billion; ?Robust embrace? of Do Not Call Register; Australian Open Wi-Fi and social traffic soars
6th February 2015
The great data retention debate; Outrage over secrecy on cost report; Abbot tries to wedge Labor; Fletcher to take over from Turnbull?; BT buys EE for ?12.5 billion ? and the Germans move in; Telstra?s new CIO; A million Aussies have two phones
6th February 2015
Heir apparent ? Fletcher in the hot seat if Turnbull kicked upstairs; Spark and Vocus form JV on Kiwi cable Wi-Fi and IPTV upgrade at MCG; Megaport launches services into HK and NZ; Deloitte launches Australian cybercentre; Wheeler comes out fighting for net neutrality; Apple grows iOS market share
5th February 2015
The best argument against data retention ? it won?t work; Cloud ?the engine for innovation? ? while cloud now a standard telco offering; Content providers driving network capex growth; Vodafone connects the M2M unconnected ? the year ahead for M2M; Cyan partners with Kordia on SDN
4th February 2015
Telstra?s new CIO ? that?s Yarkoni, not Marconi; Abbott uses terrorism to defend data retention; Tell us the costs of data retention, says ACCAN; Foxtel?s triple play ? with no cable broadband; Virgin Mobile offers bonus data in February; Expats phone home, says Optus; Hotel industry backpedals on blocking Wi-Fi
3rd February 2015
Government refuses to release report on costs of data retention; Over a million Aussies use two mobile phones; Dish the big winner in US spectrum auction; Major rise in DDOS attacks; Verizon launches Internet of Things portal; BT sets out ultrafast broadband vision for UK; Allied Telesis named smart cities partner
2nd February 2015
Public hearings begin on data retention ? why bother? No Choice but to ?HideMyAss? for global and secure content access; Quickflix looking for a way out as Netflix looms; Amazon joins email market with WorkMailFCC warns hotels against blocking guests? Wi-Fi.
30th January 2015
2015 ? the year of video streaming; Stan joins Presto, Netflix, Fetch TV, BigPond Movies, Quickflix, Apple TV ?; FCC warns hotels against blocking Wi-Fi; Data retention hearings ? why bother? Newsat defaults; Hutchison moves on O2; iPhone 6 gives Apple record result
30th January 2015
iPhone 6 propels Apple to record result; Phablet ?to be 20% of phone shipments?; CSIRO to pilot cloud data breakthrough; Brocade sees ?historic year? ahead ?; and offers Vyatta Controller free for a year; iiNet partners with Ronald McDonald House
29th January 2015