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    Telstra loses last mile regulator race 28/04/2009 16:31:00

    Access price hike would stymie competition
    Telstra has lost its final appeal to impose a $30 charge for competitors to access the last mile copper network in metropolitan areas.
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    The content filtering story 30/03/2009 16:02:00

    The long road to banning 'unsavoury' websites
    Does the Australian community need protecting from the worst the Web has to offer? The government appears to think so. Here's short guide to the rocky road to internet filtering in Australia.
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    Optus: We want in on Internet filtering trial 27/03/2009 16:28:00

    The telco confirms interest in content filter but does not comment on how it will be enforced
    Despite criticism the big ISPs have shunned the Federal Government's Internet filter trial, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, has declared Optus has jumped on-board.
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    Betfair banned by ACMA 19/03/2009 13:30:00

    CEO furious, tens of millions at risk.
    Betfair CEO Andrew Twaits is outraged the multi-billion dollar company has been blacklisted under the government Internet content filters, a move set to annex tens of millions of dollars in local revenue.
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    Govt splurges $61M on bush telecoms 06/03/2009 11:05:00

    A further $339M to follow.
    Communications Minister Stephen Conroy will inject $61.1 million to improve regional telecommunications for education, health and emergency services following recommendations from the Regional Telecommunications Review.
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    In Pictures: Aussies rally against sanitised Internet 13/12/2008 17:17:00

    Armchair activists hit the streets across capital cities to rally against national Internet content filtering.
    Protesters held rallies across Australian capital cities today to oppose the government's national clean feed Internet scheme, which will impose blanket content filtering for all web connections
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    In-depth: Summary of NBN regulatory submissions 04/07/2008 10:53:29

    Key points submitted to the gov't by telcos, ISPs, industry consortiums and major players on the regulatory framework of the NBN
    The federal government published this week submissions it had invited from industry players, public interest groups and concerned individuals on regulatory issues associated with the National Broadband Network process. The government received no less than 80 submissions from a broad range of participants including major telco providers, ISPs, disability access groups, telecommunications consumer and industry groups, telco experts, academics and individuals. Computerworld explored each submission and here we provide you with the key points outlined in each proposal. In most cases, the views are lifted verbatim from the submission.
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    What do unlimited calling plans really offer businesses? 22/02/2008 11:44:08

    How to know if unlimited calling is right for you
    Verizon's announcement last week that it was launching a flat-rate wireless plan that would allow for unlimited calling had a cascading effect on the US telecom industry, as AT&T and T-Mobile soon followed suit with flat-rate wireless calling plans of their own.
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    Privacy and piracy: What are we telling the kids? 27/11/2007 09:09:35

    The lesson is that ownership of information is a corporate right, and that people are only licensors.
    I can't find much difference between the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) members' business model and a band of large-scale ticket scalpers, but lately they and their music-industry cousins in the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) are exhibiting the collective cojones of a bank robber demanding change for the getaway car's parking meter.
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    Networking's greatest debates in the Data Center 29/10/2007 07:34:19

    All time classic debates include Mac Vs PC, Tape storage vs. disk storage and AMD vs. Intel
    A look at the greatest all time Data Center controversies in the history of the networking industry.
Opinions
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    Digital TV foreshadows erosion of Internet rights 19/06/2008 08:43:18

    Digital TV's locked down like broadcast, entertainment lobbies want for the Net. Could the Web also be brought to heel?
    With regard to the free exchange of information over the Internet, we, the people, have mostly managed to hold our ground. We can thank activists, hacktivists, legislators saying "no, thanks" to money from the entertainment lobbies, and forward-thinking artists and content distributors--I'm proud that writers and publishers took the lead on this--who recognise that reach is the currency of the digital age.
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    A surfeit of US network neutrality legislation 14/05/2008 12:28:43

    Largely due to the continued dumb statements and actions of a few apparently PR-challenged carriers, the network neutrality issue is alive and well in the US
    Largely due to the continued dumb statements and actions of a few apparently PR-challenged carriers, the network neutrality issue is alive and well in the United States. Since any issue like this seems to create a legislative void that must be filled, we now have at least two network neutrality related bills for Congress to consider. If one liked legislation-based solutions, merging these bills and tossing out a bit of Federal Communications Commission make-work would not be too bad, but there would still be some questions left unanswered.
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    WORLDBEAT - With 100 days to go, Beijing faces the music 07/05/2008 08:36:08

    The host city is now pretty much as it will be on August 8. That's not good
    Welcome to Beijing.
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    YouTube's woes? You could be next 28/02/2008 08:57:11

    Elections aren't the only things in chaos in Pakistan these days
    Elections aren't the only things in chaos in Pakistan these days. The country recently decided to censor YouTube. Unfortunately, Pakistan botched the technology: It issued BGP routes that leaked, causing a worldwide reroute of all YouTube requests to a black hole in Pakistan -- taking YouTube off the global Internet for a couple of hours.
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    Wiretapping, whistleblowing and IT ethics 09/11/2007 08:16:10

    AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein has got Mark Gibbs thinking
    Recently a retired AT&T employee named Mark Klein announced at a Capitol Hill press conference that he had evidence that "An exact copy of all Internet traffic that flowed through critical AT&T cables ... was being diverted to equipment inside the secret room."
Interviews
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    Pakistan/YouTube incident: how common is hijacking 11/03/2008 07:13:05

    Chief Scientist at RIPE NCC, the European registry for Internet addresses, looks at what happened during Pakistan Telecom's hijacking of YouTube
    When Pakistan Telecom blocked YouTube's traffic one Sunday evening in February, the ISP created an international incident that wreaked havoc on the popular video site for more than two hours.
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    Internet Society CEO sets sights on next 'Net users 07/12/2007 09:25:28

    Not deploying IPv6 threatens Internet, Lynn St. Amour warns
    The Internet has 1.3 billion users, but that's not enough for Lynn St. Amour. As CEO of the Internet Society, she is expanding the nonprofit group, which promotes development of the Internet globally. St. Amour doubled the group's staff in 2007 and beefed up its outreach activities in Africa, South America and Asia in her bid to add another billion Internet users worldwide. National Correspondent Carolyn Duffy Marsan sat down with St. Amour this week at a meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force, an ISOC-funded standards group. Here are excerpts from their conversation:
Buying Guides
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    Broadband Internet 27/11/2007 10:25:48

    For the majority of those looking to upgrade to broadband Internet for the business or home, it's all about the extra speed.
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    Domain Names 02/09/2005 17:08:24

    Running a business and want to promote yourself online? You need a domain name.
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