Karen Stuart

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] A Telstra exchange mainframe has been barred as a restricted area, due to unhygienic conditions, according to the Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU). The union claimed to have received complaints of rat and cockroach infestation, decaying food scraps and uncleaned toilets. “I’d suggest this was a problem across most Telstra exchanges,” said […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] The Fantastic Corporation and Telstra have formed a partnership to use Fantastic’s technology to deliver broadband multimedia distribution services. The two will target Australian businesses and education institutions, and claimed they will deliver multimedia rich content to any IP device. Telstra will provide the services over both its cable and satellite networks. From […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Australian technology company Bullant has received a $3.7 million loan from the Commonwealth Government. Bullant’s flagship products are a server architecture and ASP thin client which it claims enable faster, “zero friction” Internet transactions. The R&D Start concessional loan is the largest ever offered to an Australian company and, according to Bullant, is […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Pilbara Mines Ltd will make an initial public offering, and listing on the ASX, of shares in its 95 percent-owned subsidiary, Request DSL Pty Limited. Request DSL plans to use “declared” access to Telstra’s copper local loop to provide wholesale DSL, which it will resell to broadband service providers. The company hopes to […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Plans to review the Australian domain name policy received a boost at the auDA Name Policy Advisory Panel’s first meeting. The panel was recently established by the auDA Board, with the intention of reviewing domain name eligibility and name allocation policies – in other words, who (or what) can have a domain name, […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Telco Australia Limited has announced that it will make a proportional off-market takeover offer for 80 percent of all of the ordinary shares on issue in Market Faxts Limited. Telco will offer two Telco shares for five Market Faxts fully paid ordinary shares. The junior telecommunications company’s present intention is to keep Market […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Virgin Mobile has chosen ASX-listed Telemedia as a partner for its Cable & Wireless Optus JV launch on the Australian market this year. Under the agreement, Virgin Mobile Australia will invest more than $8 million (US $5 million) over five years, with Telemedia Networks International supplying pre and post paid mobile switching infrastructure. […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Access1 will offer new business customers subscriptions to its C7 Olympic coverage, licensing them to broadcast the coverage to staff over their corporate network. “This offer is designed to promote the unique opportunity the Olympics presents for a showcase of Access1’s technology,” said Access1 executive chairman David Spence. “Businesses who subscribe for the […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] IT, Internet and telecommunications stocks were the top floats of the financial year in terms of growth and premiums, despite plenty of bubble victims falling by the wayside, according to share market analyst EquityCafe. EquityCafe listed top performers as being Kaz Computer Services and Objectif Telecommunicaitons Ltd, one of the first successful post-correction […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Melbourne IT will offer domain names written in Chinese characters, following an agreement with i-DNS International. The company’s subsidiary, Internet Names WorldWide (INWW), will be the first ICANN-accredited domain name registrar to offer the Chinese names, and plans to extend the licence to cover other character-based languages, including Japanese, Arabic, Thai and Tamil. […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Fourteen corporations have announced plans to form a multiple-industry Australian business-to-business e-marketplace called corProcure, in which each will be a founding shareholder. The companies involved are Amcor, AMP, ANZ, Australia Post, BHP, Coca-Cola Amatil, Coles Myer, Foster’s, Goodman Fielder, Orica, Pacific Dunlop, Qantas, Telstra and Wesfarmers. The companies have committed to a joint […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Australian ISP peering co-operative AusBONE has described Telstra’s wholesale DSL pricing scheme as “a joke”. Paul Montgomery, CEO of AusBONE, said that “according to information from the ISP community,” Telstra’s network access prices amount to more than $10,000 per month for a single 2Mbps channel for each exchange, in addition to a charge […]