Karen Stuart

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] NetComm Limited, best known as a modem supplier, has formed a strategic alliance with Alcatel to build an Australian broadband DSL network. Alcatel is also rolling out Telstra’s ADSL network. NetComm plans to establish itself as an early leader in the emerging market, targeting SME and residential sectors. Other companies rolling out DSL […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Davnet has expanded its network to provide more capacity for the high-volume corporate market. The telco has added five Cisco gigabit ethernet routers, allowing it to offer up to one gigabit per second to its data customers. The service will compete with Telstra‘s recently launched EpiCentre offering, also built in conjunction with Cisco, […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Australia-Japan Cable Limited (AJC) has progressed in its plans to build a submarine fibre optic cable to carry data and voice traffic between Japan and Australia. The build will follow a series of cable rollouts contributing to a new “Asia-centric” worldwide network, bypassing the U.S. strangle-hold on international traffic tarrifs. NEC has been […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Travel.com.au has announced losses over AUS $2 million (US $1.2 million) greater than the AUS $4.8 million (US $2.9 million) forecast in the company’s prospectus. Its not all doom and gloom though, the company boasted strong growth in Q2, with sales up 20 percent in the previous quarter, and almost 200 percent in […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Market Faxts Ltd has signed an agreement with California-based UDU World to enhance its Infochoice-branded Web sites using an e-mail information service called UDUit. The company said it expected to see a major increase in users through the addition of an information retrieval system supplied by UDU World. Market Faxts will deploy the […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Rupert Murdoch’s News Interactive, which recently faced major reorganization and funding freezes, has announced a partnership with E*TRADE Australia. E*TRADE will be the exclusive online broker for the finance and trading place areas of the news.com.au portal. E*TRADE said the agreement would extend its exposure to the “financially oriented News Interactive audience.” The […]