News

• Qualcomm calls for shared in-home cells to handle mobile demand

  By Stephen Lawson | 30 April, 2013 21:59

  Consumers will have to share small, inexpensive cells in their homes with nearby mobile users to affordably meet the growing demand for mobile data in the next decade, a Qualcomm executive said Tuesday.

• Australia’s 700MHz auction unlikely to be a sell-out: analysts

  By Adam Bender | 22 April, 2013 11:42

  A portion of the waterfront 700MHz spectrum in Tuesday’s Digital Dividend auction could go unsold despite aggressive bidding expected from Telstra, according to mobile industry analysts.

• VSDL2 on steroids takes off as broadband over copper declines for first time

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 19 April, 2013 15:22

  Broadband based on VDSL2 helped by a technology called vectoring is taking off, while older members of the DSL family are getting less popular as users around the works crave more bandwidth.

• Coalition NBN plan provides certainty: Macquarie Telecom

  By Adam Bender | 16 April, 2013 14:46

  Macquarie Telecom has said the Coalition’s NBN announcement is “great news” for businesses because it brings certainty that there will be an NBN if there is a change of government.

• Google to bring gigabit-speed fiber to Austin

  By Stephen Lawson | 09 April, 2013 18:04

  Google will roll out its second city fiber network in Austin, Texas, offering gigabit-speed Internet and TV along with free basic broadband on plans similar to those in Kansas City, Missouri and its twin city in Kansas.

• Proposed broadband infrastructure sharing could save €60 billion, says EC

  By Jennifer Baker | 26 March, 2013 16:22

  Europe’s Digital Agenda Commissioner on Tuesday put forward a new law aimed at making broadband rollout cheaper and easier.

• Google Fiber to expand service beyond Kansas City

  By Sharon Gaudin | 20 March, 2013 17:22

  Google is expanding its Google Fiber project in Kansas to Olathe, the fifth largest city in the state.

• Digital to shake up Australian market: IBM

  By Adam Bender | 05 March, 2013 16:02

  Broadband is a transformative utility forcing companies to digitise their businesses, according to IBM Australia and New Zealand managing director, Andrew Stevens.

• Copper still has a lot to offer broadband users, carrier exec says

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 04 March, 2013 17:18

  Thanks to the higher speeds possible using a technology called vectoring, copper networks are still a viable option to cable and fiber, Deutsche Telekom says.

• Fon and Deutsche Telekom hope to cover Germany with Wi-Fi

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 04 March, 2013 11:01

  German operator Deutsche Telekom is joining forces with Fon to help expand its network coverage, as it does its best to keep up with growing data volumes.

• US lawmakers look for waste in broadband stimulus

  By Grant Gross | 27 February, 2013 19:59

  Some Republican lawmakers on Wednesday accused two U.S. agencies of wasting hundreds of millions of dollars in broadband stimulus money on failed projects, but supporters of the broadband spending questioned the Republican numbers.

• Entertainment producers decry broadband data caps

  By Grant Gross | 26 February, 2013 20:36

  Data caps on broadband service stifle innovation and hurt producers of groundbreaking video programs, representatives of the U.S. entertainment industry said Tuesday.

• FCC: US broadband providers deliver close to advertised speeds

  By Grant Gross | 15 February, 2013 17:59

  U.S. broadband providers deliver nearly the residential broadband speeds they advertise, with a handful of large providers exceeding the promised service, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said in a new report.

• Alcatel-Lucent hopes to make data plans more flexible

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 14 February, 2013 18:19

  Through its new Smart Plan platform, Alcatel-Lucent wants to make mobile subscription plans more flexible and allow data packages to be shared among users and handed out by companies to their customers using an application on smartphones and tablets.

• Conroy says Coalition should “come clean” on broadband policy

  By Rebecca Merrett | 14 February, 2013 15:17

  Communications minister Senator Stephen Conroy has called on the Coalition government to unveil its fully costed broadband policy during a doorstop interview today.