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Google is backing a venture to use satellites to provide wireless broadband to a patch of equatorial Africa. The venture is called O3b Networks since it aims to serve the "other 3 billion" who currently have little chance of piggybacking on the information...
NSW premier Bob Carr has thrown his weight behind Telstra's offer to build a national broadband network worth up to $30 billion, and has been advising the former monopoly on the bid. Mr Carr's emergence as a player in the Rudd Government's biggest single...
Tags: communications, broadband, telecommunications, monopoly, infrastructure, Terria, Telstra
Google has joined forces with the bank and cable operator Liberty Global to back a group called O3b Networks, which stands for the "other 3 billion" people who do not have access. It will provide high-speed backhaul for telecoms operators and internet...
Tags: broadband, internet access, Africa, o3b networks, commercially viable, google backs
Telecom is continuing its aggressive push to establish itself as a network-neutral telco after striking a deal with Telstra to resell mobile GSM services. Last month the telco said it would expand its mobile phone business and resell mobile services from...
Tags: australia, broadband, Telstra, left, Australian Securities Exchange
Now ANZ and National Australia Bank stand to benefit from their up-front caution. In a detailed review of the banking sector's sharemarket prospects, Citigroup reckons the recent underperformance of ANZ and NAB shares has been over the top and the steps...
Tags: australia, broadband, national broadband network, communications, ANZ
Limited broadband connectivity is inhibiting economic development in developing countries like the Philippines, where the government has barely invested in infrastructure, an International Telecommunication Union (ITU) report said. Broadband, or high-speed...
Tags: broadband, internet, telecom, asia pacific, world, allnews
Michael Sainsbury | September 02, 2008 THE federal Government will tomorrow end the waiting game on its biggest infrastructure project, a national broadband network worth up to $30 billion. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy will set November 26...
Tags: broadband, infrastructure, australia, communications, broadband networks, Stephen Conroy, Mr Rudd, federal government, communications minister, Kevin Rudd
The opposition yesterday attacked the government over delays in getting the project off the ground, accusing it of breaking an election promise to have the tender process for the network finalised within six months of coming to office. "The whole broadband...
Tags: broadband, communications, national broadband network, telecommunications, australia
A cellphone price war is set to erupt as a third telecommunications giant attempts to break the stranglehold Telecom and Vodafone have on the mobile phone market. The Herald on Sunday can reveal that Telstra Clear will tomorrow launch its own mobile network...
Tags: telstra, telecommunications, broadband, communications
Government's multi-billion-dollar national broadband network (NBN) tender took a step closer to completion today as Telstra handed over its vital network information. In the past Telstra has been criticised for not providing adequate information, forming...