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Telecomms Watch
Tuesday July 22, 2008
ZDNet.com.au edit team
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iPhone faithful still queuing
One week after the Australian launch of Apple's much-anticipated iPhone 3G handset, locals keen to buy the device are still queuing outside the company's only Sydney retail store.
Tags: apple, apple store, communications, iphone, mobile phone, optus, vodafone, optu
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Despite the rush by other providers to start selling so-called naked DSL, where broadband is sold without a phone line, the nation's third largest telco AAPT today said it would continue to hold back on the grounds that the product has been priced too low.
Tags: naked, dsl, yuile, aapt, telco, broadband, adsl, provider
Exchange students learn the taste of defeat
We've all experienced that irritating feeling upon walking into a nearly empty restaurant, only to see little 'reserved' signs on the empty tables, and to be told by the maître d' that no tables are available even as other people enter and are escorted to their tables.
Tags: adsl2+, network, telstra, telecommunications, exetel, mobile carrier, exchange
Telstra cancels union talks
Telstra has walked away from enterprise agreement negotiations with staff, claiming union demands threaten the telco's national broadband network proposal.
Tags: telstra, union, negotiation, enterprise agreement, nbn, actu, agreement
iPhone users claim Hutchison support
A number of Australians posting on online forums have claimed to be able to use their unlocked iPhone handsets on mobile carrier Hutchison's network.
Tags: apple, communications, handset, hutchison, iphone, mac, mobile, optus
Northern Territory, Tasmania slam Telstra's prices
The Northern Territory government has bitterly complained about a lack of competition in the telecommunications market that it claims has led to it paying Telstra three to five times more for some communications services than the rest of the nation.
Tags: broadband, remote, states, submission, conroy, nbn, abg, telstra
Naked DSL extends broadband reach
Within two months, Internode will tackle customers who have previously sat in ADSL black spots, by offering its new naked service up to seven kilometres from its own exchange network.
Tags: exchange, dslam, copper, adsl, loop, iinet, internode, kellett
Optus loses the sunshine state
Optus customers in Queensland are stranded in a communications desert, with a cable break at the Gold Coast wreaking havoc.
Tags: optus, queensland, failure, cable, mobile, voice, internet, optu
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The federal opposition has attacked the government over the likelihood of a further delay to the roll-out of a national high-speed broadband network.
Tags: broadband network, bruce billson, communications, fibre, stephen conroy, telecommunications, telstra, government
Optus claims iPhone sales win
Australia's second biggest telco Optus today claimed to have captured the bulk of new sales for Apple's 3G iPhone by offering better value deals than its competitors.
Tags: apple, communications, handset, hutchison, iphone, mobile phone, optus, telstra

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Really don't get it
If you have concerns about the serious structural issues for telecoms in this country you are branded anti-Telstra. When did this come about? - Posted by Anonymous on Telstra: It's a B-grade slasher movie
Programmers have families to feed.
Mr Stallman. You cannot advocate a world where the blatant copying of software is OK and property rights don't exist. - Posted by Anonymous on Gates is gone but the fight goes on: Stallman
You think?
I deal with Telstra wholesale almost every working day. I've never seen them do anything quickly. Ever. - Posted by Anonymous on Telco separation: more than meets the eye

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