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Written by Stuart Corner
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With Pipe Networks due to announce details of Project Runway, its submarine cable to Guam, later today, it has been pipped at the post by iiNet naming itself as the first customer, with a 15 year capacity deal.
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Written by Stuart Corner
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In a move timed to steal the thunder from Pipe Networks' expected announcement later today of the go-ahead for its Project Runway submarine cable the Telstra-lead Australia-Japan Cable issued a press release last week - embargoed to today 14 January - announcing that an extra 40Gbps of capacity had been added to its system linking Australia, Guam and Japan.
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Written by Stuart Corner
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Adelaide-based Australian Satellite Services has installed a new hub on the US west coast that will enable it to provide a range of IP-based broadband services to Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands.
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Written by Stuart Corner
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Primus Telecom says it expects to receive about $8 million from Telstra as a result of back-dated ACCC-mandated reductions in the price Primus has been paying Telstra for access to its local lines in order to deliver ADSL services to its customers.
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Written by Stan Beer
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Networking hardware vendor Netgear has announced a recall of its XE103 Powerline Ethernet Adapter made for Europe and other countries, including Australia, which use 220-240 volt power sources. About 82,000 of the adapters have been sold to date and the recall has been initiated becuase of a potential overheating issue.
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Written by Stuart Corner
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Competition to dominate the market for Linux-based mobile handsets has ramped up another notch with a number of new players joining the LiMo Foundation whose goal is to create the world's first globally competitive, Linux-based software platform for mobile devices.
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Written by Stuart Corner
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Agility Systems, a UK based provider of integrated supply chain solutions, has chosen global virtual network operator Vanco to set up and operate a regional wide area network to serve its operations in Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.
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Written by Stan Beer
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Sony has announced a new close proximity wireless transfer Technology enabling the high speed transfer of large data files such as photos and HD images between electronic devices such as mobile phones, digital cameras, digital video cameras, computers and TVs.The new technology, called TransferJet, enables data to be sent at speeds of 560Mbps and is on display at CES.
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Written by Stan Beer
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A new trial has led communications developer Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) to claim that by 2010 ultra high speed mobile data communications technology will be commercially available, enabling mobile broadband at up to 173 Megabits per second. If correct the deployment of the new technology could be a key game changer in the growing competition between between fixed and mobile communications networks.
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Written by Stephen Withers
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266 organisations have applied to the US Federal Communications Commission to participate in January's auction of 700MHz spectrum, but 170 of those applications have been deemed incomplete.
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Written by Stuart Corner
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No, not those produced by flatulence: the European Commission's Joint Research Centre has developed a cellphone application that enables users to see the quantity greenhouse gases that is produced when they carry out their everyday activities.
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Written by Stuart Corner
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There are at least three contenders jostling for a share of the growing market for Linux-based mobile device platforms. Now giant Japanese cellular operator, NTT DoCoMo, is throwing its weight behind a fourth.
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Written by Stuart Corner
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Australia's telecommunications standards development body, Communications Alliance, has released a draft standard for VDLS2 customer equipment. When finalised it will enable vendors to start supplying VDSL2 modems in preparation for DSL broadband services operating at up to 100Mbps. However one ISP's plan to launch a VDSL2 service in February 2008 is totally unrealistic.
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Written by Stuart Corner
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Vodafone is offering its mobile customers unlimited access to selected social networking, email and IM sites in what appears to be its latest response to 3's X-Series offerings.
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Written by Stuart Corner
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Vodafone Germany has become the first Ericsson cellular infrastructure customer to implement a software upgrade in its base stations that shuts down parts of the base station to reduce power consumption when network traffic is low.
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Written by Stuart Corner
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Kyocera, the manufacturer of the iBurst technology behind Personal Broadband Australia's wireless broadband service, has announced a new desktop modem that will double download speed to 2Mbps.
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