Monthly Archives: September 2007

Looking further into WorkChoices (and following a Whirlpool thread on the subject), it seems that in Victoria, a study conducted has exposed WorkChoices as a reason for lower pay and more hours. I can’t speak certainly on the nature of … Continue reading →

I’m curious with the IR laws being such a big election issue as to whether there is any evidence from anyone, a real case study, where the employee was an honest, hard working employee (and not a slacker taking 5 … Continue reading →

With the likely that Unwired shareholders accept the deal on offer from Seven’s network investment body, the new news that we see is that there is discussions with Seven and Austar over the possibility of Austar’s spectrum in regional areas … Continue reading →

I think I predicted the future when I wrote my blog post back on September 5th 2007, located here: http://www.tocpcs.com/unwired-engin-and-seven-a-perfect-threesome/. Unwired’s trading halt is a result of the a bid from Seven Network’s Network Investment arm placing a takeover bid … Continue reading →

Reading through the ‘Telstra Forum’ on Telstra’s Now We Are Talking website, it’s very clear that many are expressing their complete dislike of Telstra’s management and current actions. Telstra recently put up a survey for shareholders to answer questions about … Continue reading →

The Expert Taskforce have revealed the guidelines which FTTN proposals must adhere to. I got a copy of them for myself and thought I’d run through some of the proposal questions, since that is what essentially is important here. They … Continue reading →

A new bill introduced into the Senate is to introduce powers to the Federal Police Commissioner to allow censorship of terrorism and cyber crimes. The ACMA would hold the power to administer the block lists, the Federal Police Commissioner the … Continue reading →

As I predicted would happen (who didn’t ?), 2Clix withdrew its Statement of Claim against Simon Wright, Whirlpool Owner. They didn’t exactly state reasoning for withdrawing, but one can safely assume the withdrawal is a direct result of all the … Continue reading →

It’s not too often I get threats from people / businesses threatening to sue me for defamation, though, I have got 3 threats in the last year. OzVoIP.com – They didn’t like the domain name I chose (with having no … Continue reading →

It was previously quoted in the media by an Optus spokesperson that the retail prices for OPEL provided services would be metro comparable, and the price attached to that metro comparable was $35 to $60 per month. Recently, another news … Continue reading →

Accounting software n00bs, 2clix lodged a Statement of Claim in the Brisbane Supreme Court claiming that the owner of the magnificent Whirlpool, Simon Wright, has caused them injurous falsehood by not following demands to remove content on the website that … Continue reading →

Telstra with nothing better to do (its not like there are 18% of all phone lines having faults that need repair) have decided that putting Coonan on trial for OPEL wasn’t enough. The OPEL case is more and more looking … Continue reading →

The federal government has decided it will sign a funding agreement with OPEL for $958 million dollars, showing the public that Telstra’s legal action is vexatious and unwarranted. The OPEL funding agreement hands $958 million to an Australian company, OPEL, … Continue reading →

Dodo, obviously failing to learn from its failure in the dial-up and broadband game with reports of poor speeds on broadband services, and very poor customer service have now decided that screwing city people and pissing them off is not … Continue reading →

Yesterday I wrote about how I had an experience on eBay of the unintelligent kind, where the sellers of all the items purchased all made stuff ups! Seller 1 had decided to forget rails for a rackmount server. Seller 2 … Continue reading →

Unwired provides internet access services over its own wireless networks. Engin provides VoIP – Telephone services over the internet. Seven provides Television, in what can be described as slow play from the US. Seven bought a large stake in Engin … Continue reading →

are the names of the likely pariticipants in the bidding process for a new FTTN network. I believe only one will emerge as the eventual winner, unfortunately. Unless the Taskforce take note of Deutsche Telekom’s idea of a public / … Continue reading →

In news you won’t find on Telstra’s own Now We Are Talking website (why is that? Can’t take the good with the bad?), If you don’t use Telstra for your STD calls, it may very soon cost you more. Telstra … Continue reading →

A Topic I discovered recently, is the topic of Broadband and Telecommunications (and the future of it) becoming a voting issue. The possibilities at this point in time are endless, both sides are fighting for your vote, and both will … Continue reading →

In what is still doing better than Telstra’s NextG, Virgin’s HSDPA Network experienced an outage lasting a total of 5 hours. Telstra’s NextG network had network issues spanning 3 days, with one of those days experiencing a total failure. Whilst … Continue reading →

Just when you thought we had one evil company holding Australia’s telecommunication freedoms to ransom, another company is planning to join the arena of denying users freedom. Amazingly however, Telstra’s Bigpond ISP has been mentioned in the media as not … Continue reading →