It’s not actually the Australian Christianity Church Council, no, Telstra have stated that ACCC Chairman Graeme Samuel acts like god and behaves like it.
I suppose they might be confusing the ACCC with the TIO, where the TIO collects fees for those who complain about services delivered, the ACCC on the other hand, does not.
The ACCC [...]
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Bow down to your God: The ACCC!
Posted in March 30th, 2008
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VDSL2+ - How will it perform?
Posted in March 28th, 2008
Eftel, an Australian ISP plans to roll out VDSL2+ MSANs to select exchanges.
VDSL2+ doesn’t really seem to have a place however for home users, because the performance from the internet isn’t likely to reach the speeds capable of VDSL2+ connections.
Further, worser than ADSL2+, VDSL2+ will drop speed faster than ADSL2+ technology due to the higher [...]
Buzz Cheap Network performed Cheaply
Posted in March 28th, 2008
A Buzz Broadband CEO recently stated that WiMAX was a ‘disaster’ and it suffered from high latency, and other issues.
He also made comment over the coverage of WiMAX, saying the coverage was non existent indoor at just 2kM.
Airspan, the supplier had followed up the comments made by Garth Freeman, stating reasons such as poor backhaul, [...]
TPG gets some Soul
Posted in March 27th, 2008
Soul Telecom seems to be suffering some form of value decline, at least on the sharemarket, where in little less than a year, they have gone from being $1, to close to $0.25, losing 75% of the share value.
They recently announced they had plans to buy TPG, for around $200 million dollars or so, which [...]
Reduced ADSL2+ prices for Telstra Retail
Posted in March 26th, 2008
Telstra might find itself reducing prices for a change.
The reasoning behind that is Telstra is forseeing a threat from LSS based competition, which allows others to provide ADSL2+ and VoIP services to consumers, effectively removing a good fair chunk of Telstra’s retail revenue for each customer they move over, and Telstra’s gain after such a [...]
Telstra insists on ‘upward of 18%’ return
Posted in March 24th, 2008
Should Telstra build FTTN, they insist on a return of 18% as a minimum.
That’s a lot of money to be forcing from consumers struggling with mortgage rises, and other factors, more so in a market where the pressures are on the price being dropped, and value for money being increased.
What makes Telstra so sure it [...]
NWAT: WiMAX claimed miserable, but, cover up the rest of the story?
Posted in March 21st, 2008
Yesterday I wrote about a CommsDay article, and the subject of it was that WiMAX deployment in Hervey Bay by Buzz was miserable.
We can see on Now We Are Talking, this article:
http://www.nowwearetalking.com.au/Home/Page.aspx?mid=364#intNav52
Interesting to note, that no where in that article is the true text of the article mentioned, or even, where to find the true [...]
WiMAX buzzes off Buzz.
Posted in March 21st, 2008
The Buzz Broadband CEO has labelled their deployment of WiMAX in the Hervey Bay region a “miserable failure”.
The CEO described problems which are generally common with wireless technologies in poor environments, such as packet loss, low speeds, poor signal, and high latency.
The network is an Airspan supplied network, and Freeman (Buzz CEO) has been previously [...]
Give us your network info, or we’ll force it.
Posted in March 20th, 2008
Senator Conroy seems to be living up to his words.
Recently he indicated he wanted network information supplied by all companies with existing networks to provide this information to prospective FTTN bidders.
I’m aware of two companies directly refusing to participate in this process, no prizes for guessing who the first one is, the other is, strangely, [...]
Broadband Network Submissions Requested
Posted in March 19th, 2008
It was requested recently, that those interested, send submissions to Conroy’s panel of experts on his proposed $4 billion waste of tax payer funds.
FTTN isn’t the way of the future. Look at the potential of returning back to a monopoly, the reduction and lack of interest in investment and competition. How will that improve, if [...]
Broadband is very important, as important as trains.
Posted in March 18th, 2008
Just .. not as fast as trains in some cases.
It’s amazing that I can move 1GB 100kM faster by rail then I could the internet.
Heck, it’d be quicker to deliver 2GB 100kM away, using a car then it would the internet, yet the internet would be the medium of choice to save on driving time, [...]
The ACCC moves forward to yesterday.
Posted in March 16th, 2008
The ACCC released draft report on the ISDN and Digital Data Access Services.
The ACCC believes there is still a need for the services to be declared services in regional areas, until the 30th of June 2009, this is in comparison to the Metro services, which were no longer declared since 30th June 2006.
Could it really [...]
Internode purchases ADSL2+ off Optus
Posted in March 13th, 2008
Internode, an ADSL2+ DSLAM investing ISP has decided to use Optus DSLAMs for it’s Naked DSL plans.
I first think. How lazy is that. Internode, an ISP who has been investing into ADSL2+ DSLAMs has instead decided they’ll go and use Optus ADSL2+ ports for it’s Naked DSL product.
Then I think, Optus have the larger reach, [...]
Horizon Broadband say Wireless is the future
Posted in March 11th, 2008
An article in Australian IT has quoted an industry member as suggesting that wireless is the BEST option to regional, rural and remote areas. And he is right.
WiMAX is capable of speeds far exceeding that of the proposed FTTN network. Look at FTTN as providing a maximum (yep, even Telstra’s own claim) of 50Mbps.
Look at [...]
Regional Communications Fund Destruction
Posted in March 10th, 2008
It amazes me how stupid those who get elected are.
The previous government setup a $2 billion communications fund, of which the interest would be used to invest in further regional and rural communications infrastructure.
Brilliant plan. There’s no burden on taxpayers for the funds to advance regional communications, there’s no burden on private industry to make [...]
The Upper Hand is what matters?
Posted in March 9th, 2008
I see that the government has taken it’s sweet time with the handover of the OPEL decision making documents to Telstra. I imagine there is a fair bit of information there to collate, and place in order for Telstra to review, so they can finally conclude that the process was fair enough, and the best [...]
FTTN: Not a “compulsory acquisition” issue.
Posted in March 7th, 2008
Telstra’s loss in the High Court yesterday has a much more strong message behind it for Telstra. One which isn’t really obvious from the outset.
The G9 propose to setup an FTTN network, migrating copper wire to their nodes using a “Pillar Migration” method.
This method means that interconnection to the copper access network will occur at [...]
To Ripping off consumers and competition: Australia Says No
Posted in March 7th, 2008
And so did the High Court today when it released it’s verdict on Telstra’s “The Castle” style legal action against the ACCC’s declaration and continuation of competition.
Telstra’s case was that the fair rates set by the ACCC for access to spectrum on a copper line, or access to a complete copper line was a compulsory [...]
Broadband over Powerline Drops Off
Posted in March 6th, 2008
It would seem that BPL isn’t taking off after the sparks it originally created when first anticipated by the industry as a replacement for the expensive copper from Telstra.
BPL is running broadband over infrastructure that is sure to reach nearly every home in Australia, the common power line.
It’s an easy and assured way to reach [...]
Regulation Decision = Legal Action
Posted in March 5th, 2008
According to a recent article in SMH’s “Business Day”, it’s revealed nearly everytime a pricing decision is released by the ACCC, they take that decision for legal action.
The idea here is pretty clear. With a pricing decision made by the ACCC, Telstra takes it to court, the competitor who wanted to have the decision made, [...]
No More Australian Broadband Guarantee(s)
Posted in March 4th, 2008
It’s amazing, the number of products you can get a guarantee on. For example, through the USO, a basic telephone service is guaranteed to any fixed residence.
And, there’s those “guaranteed, or your money back” style marketing done by various services and products providers in various industries.
But, one thing regional and rural Australia can’t count on, [...]
Broadband Survey Results
Posted in March 3rd, 2008
Whirlpool have done it again, finally releasing the results of their annual broadband survey, and the results are well, expected.
Survey Results Here
What can be seen from the survey is pretty average.
1. Broadband value is pretty much the same, or even worse, over the last 1 year, which suggests that there has been little done to [...]
WTTN for regional areas?
Posted in March 2nd, 2008
When it comes to node based deployment, the issues for regional and rural areas are cost based issues, centred mainly around trenching through a fibre cable to the node, and then cutting the customers over.
Of these however, the costly option is the fibre cutover, as they would need to dig their cable in, and use [...]
Conroy to Telstra: Give us your plans or we’ll shoot..
Posted in March 1st, 2008
.. some legislation up your alley.
Conroy is seeking to facilitate the access of network plans from Telstra so he can hold his FTxx bid fest without any uncertainty as to what network access is available.
A smart move from a silly person. Conroy is the same person who wants to get filtering installed at the ISP [...]
FTTF: Is it coming soon?
Posted in February 29th, 2008
Fibre to the Farmyard.
Naturally, I think it’s a common place belief that it isn’t coming to a farmyard at all, because Fibre is expensive to deploy, and is overkill for current and anticipated future requirements for farmers.
But, it is important to note that a recent survey by the ACMA found that 35% of the wheat, [...]
Telstra, and it’s spin cycle
Posted in February 28th, 2008
It seems things just go around in circles in the Broadband realm, with the only forward momentum being competition induced innovation.
I suppose the entire industry isn’t to blame for the circling, because a lot of spin comes from Telstra, and well, you can’t have a whirlpool without a violent circular aquatic movement.
Despite the rubbish coming [...]
404: Not Found: Telstra Wholesale ADSL2+
Posted in February 26th, 2008
Simon Hackett, and other ISPs have been wanting to get their hands on ADSL2+ from Telstra Wholesale since the release of the product.
However, after they attempt to navigate, and visit adsl2+_wholesale.html, they are coming across a 404 page, meaning that there is no wholesale of ADSL2+.
Sol Trujillo has long been targetting to trash the wholesale [...]
When Regulation goes too far
Posted in February 24th, 2008
It’s common debate when in discussion about Telstra, that they claim regulations prevent Telstra running a business the way they wanted to.
But, when you dig into these deeper then getting your toes wet, you generally find that the regulations are designed to protect consumers from any activity deemed to prevent competition entering the market. Competition [...]
Telstra Rejects Possible Customers
Posted in February 18th, 2008
Yep, straight from the reliable mouth of ZDNet, Telstra rejected possible customers for ADSL2+.
The government has been inconsistent also, with it’s Telstra dealings, stating during the election campaign that it would stand strong against Telstra, yet, when the time arises for them to get in a photo shoot and be seen doing something, they are [...]
Free Wireless Fad
Posted in February 16th, 2008
The NSW government proposed to roll out free wireless across parts of NSW at the previous election.
As per typical government promises, the total work began towards such commitment is absolutely 0. There’s no government based wireless network running for free at this time.
And why would there be? Internet access is far from a essential, and [...]
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