Consumer Advice Telstra has advised its universal service obligation (USO) customers (those on the $25-45 per month plan) that receive a landline only (not data) via NBN that it is moving their home phone to Telstra 4G. BLOODY INCOMPETENT TELSTRA STRIKES AGAIN (UPDATE 2 APRIL) I received another letter on 1 April (not an April […]
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Telstra to move your NBN home phone to Telstra 4G – DON’T DO IT (Update)
Scammers sending fake Telstra mail
(source:supplied) When people think of scammers, many might have the idea in mind that sophisticated hooks are embedded in emails or websites or smartphone related communications. But scammers have gone ‘old school’ for quite some time. Scammers have enlisted Australia Post to deliver their fraudulent message (fake envelope on the right), as they have done […]
Telstra Fined $1.5 Million From Regulator
Telstra has paid a $1.5 million penalty for failing to allow consumers to keep existing local phone numbers when changing telephone companies. From March to July 2020, Telstra suspended the majority of its local number porting operations, saying the COVID-19 pandemic impacted offshore operations. More than 42,000 services could not be moved from Telstra to […]
TPG reveals $69.99 unlimited NBN plan
news National provider broadband provider TPG has revealed it is planning to offer at least one plan on the National Broadband Network’s fibre infrastructure featuring the same unlimited downloads it offers on ADSL networks, with speeds of 12Mbps and a monthly charge of $69.99 including a home telephone line. The company is well-known for its […]
iiNet to launch 4G through Optus
news National broadband provider iiNet this morning announced it had signed a deal with Optus to start reselling access to the SingTel subsidiary’s 4G mobile broadband network, with services to start “in the coming months”. Optus several weeks ago opened its new 4G network to consumers in Sydney, Perth and Newcastle, with Melbourne launching late […]
iiNet to launch 4G through Optus
news National broadband provider iiNet this morning announced it had signed a deal with Optus to start reselling access to the SingTel subsidiary’s 4G mobile broadband network, with services to start “in the coming months”. Optus several weeks ago opened its new 4G network to consumers in Sydney, Perth and Newcastle, with Melbourne launching late […]
Explainer: what is 4G?
This article is by Mark Gregory, a senior lecturer in Electrical and Computer Engineering at RMIT University. It was first published on The Conversation and is re-published here with permission. analysis If you’re looking to buy a new smartphone or computer you’ve probably seen advertisements and offers for 4G-compatible devices. You might even own a […]
Explainer: what is 4G?
This article is by Mark Gregory, a senior lecturer in Electrical and Computer Engineering at RMIT University. It was first published on The Conversation and is re-published here with permission. analysis If you’re looking to buy a new smartphone or computer you’ve probably seen advertisements and offers for 4G-compatible devices. You might even own a […]
The lost cause of American political fact-checkers
This article is by David Smith, a lecturer in American politics and foreign policy at the University of Sydney. It was first published on The Conversation and is re-published here with permission. “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” — Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Political fact checkers seem to perform a […]
The lost cause of American political fact-checkers
This article is by David Smith, a lecturer in American politics and foreign policy at the University of Sydney. It was first published on The Conversation and is re-published here with permission. “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” — Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Political fact checkers seem to perform a […]
Sell off the NBN? Abbott won’t confirm or deny
news Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has repeatedly refused to confirm or deny whether the Coalition would sell off finished portions of the National Broadband Network infrastructure if it won the next Federal Election, stating only that the Coalition believed the private sector could deliver broadband to Australia better than the Government. Earlier this week, Abbott […]
Optus launches Motorola RAZR V
news Google-owned US handset manufacturer Motorola has launched its latest high-end Android-based smartphone in Australia, the RAZR V, through the nation’s number two telco Optus. The RAZR V is the latest in Motorola’s RAZR line, and like many competing models launching this year, runs version 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) of Google’s Android operating system, which […]
Nokia shutters Aussie development facility
news Finnish mobile manufacturer Nokia has revealed plans to close an Australian development facility which was one of the main global software groups working on the Qt application development toolkit which Nokia acquired with its 2008 buy of Norwegian company Trolltech. “We have received word that the Brisbane Australia office, consisting of the teams working […]
CBA outage took down CommSee
news The Commonwealth Bank’s wide-ranging outage also took down its customer relationship management platform CommSee, one of its main unions has revealed, in a move which further illustrates how extensive the technology-related problems suffered by the bank over the past week truly have been. On Thursday last week, according to sources, a patch was issued […]
Brisbane Airport deploys VCE private cloud
news Brisbane Airport today announced it had selected technology from the VMware, Cisco and EMC coalition to deploy a new private cloud computing environment to meet its server processing needs, reportedly migrating on a previous IBM platform along the way. The rollout was disclosed in a statement distributed by Cisco this morning. “To achieve our […]
Pacific Fibre cancels Tasman/US cable project
news A little over two years since it formed with the aim of building fibre-optic submarine cables between Australia, New Zealand and the United States, local telecommunications venture Pacific Fibre has folded, citing an inability to attract sufficient funding for the project. When it formed in March 2010, Pacific Fibre’s backers included The Warehouse founder […]
Take that, Telstra: Optus has 500 4G towers
news The nation’s number two telco Optus has revealed it has already upgraded some 500 mobile phone towers across Australia to support high-speed 4G mobile broadband services, in a rapid-fire rollout aimed at curtailing Telstra’s lead in the provision of the next-general mobile services. In a wide-ranging briefing yesterday, Optus also noted it had started […]
Five ways the NBN is better than Google Fiber
opinion This week Google finally launched its Google Fiber service in the US. But don’t be lured by the company’s sweet, sweet promises of cheap, unlimited fibre broadband to your home. Australia’s National Broadband Network will be five times as good as Google Fiber. And here’s why. Over the past week, since technology giant Google […]
Famed StarCraft hosts ‘Tastosis’ hit Australia
news Australia is shortly to play host to two of the biggest celebrities in the global StarCraft II competitive gaming scene, with commentators Tasteless and Artosis to arrive in Sydney in mid-August to host one of the nation’s largest and lucrative tournaments in the local history of electronic sports. The pair — Nick ‘Tastless’ Plott […]
‘Bring your own app’ revolution hits Australia
news Australian organisations are increasingly allowing their staff to use their own software at work, in a trend being dubbed “Bring Your Own Apps” or BYOA, according to a new survey of Australian chief information officers and other senior IT staff. In a statement released yesterday, analyst firm Telsyte said it had recently surveyed more […]