VHA’s customer bleed has taken a sharp turn for the worse, with the firm losing 216,000 subscribers in the quarter ...
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Service providers are striving to deliver the already massive and rapidly growing volumes of online video with efficiency and quality. In addition to these efforts, providers are seeking ways to control both OpEx and CapEx while creating new revenue opportunities.
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View MoreOver the next five to 10 years, networks will need to handle 10 to 100 times the traffic they do today. The aim of OPn Ciena’s deployable network architecture and vision of how networks should evolve, is to bend the cost curve of networking down in the face of this ...
View MoreVHA’s customer bleed has taken a sharp turn for the worse, with the firm losing 216,000 subscribers in the quarter ended 31 March. And Vodafone’s New Zealand operations are also shedding subs at an increasing rate, while revenues continue to decline in both countries. However, they weren't the only markets experiencing ...
View MoreSamsung’s revelation that it is developing 5G multi-gigabit wireless technology in the 28GHz band has thrown a bombshell into an already contentious debate over the future of the spectrum band in Australia—with the current holdings of AAPT and NBN Co scheduled to come up for renewal within months. Satellite players are ...
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Malcolm Turnbull has a point about FTTN. Copper is showing itself to be more resilient than many would have you believe. Copper is more than cable of delivering speeds up to 100 Mbps on a fibre to the node network, if vectoring is applied. That’s the claim on this week’s ...
View MoreThe NBN has dominated discussions on government policy, almost to the total exclusion of other telecommunications initiatives. Whilst the government has pursued its gold plated fixed line solution, Australia has become one of the world’s fastest adopters of smart phones. The mobile industry did this with little in the way of ...
View MoreIf Malcolm Turnbull sees fibre as the ultimate solution he will ensure his fibre to the node network is designed for what follows it. We know deploying fibre to every home is complicated. The ACCC’s involvement in copper pull- throughs is an example of that. Commissioner Ed Willet helps explain in ...
View MoreCommsDay Summit is over for another year but you can re-visit the powerpoints here. Southern Cross Cable Ciena Booz and Company Maddocks Vertel eintellego Adtran Equinix Telcoinabox Callpoint Spatial Verizon Juniper Networks Communications Alliance Optus (David Epstein) Amaysim Telstra Wholesale Kordia Solutions Sandvine AMTA Cisco LiveConnected F5 Networks Simon Hackett ACCAN Bob Horton Peter Moon (TCP Code) Ovum Squire Sanders ADVA Optical Networking Come back for more as we upload them
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Yesterday’s announcement by Samsung of a 5G wireless breakthrough in the 28GHz millimetre wave band likely brought wry smiles to industry students of historic hype cycles. It was nigh on 20 years ago that the same 28GHz band was similarly in play as the likely launch pad for a wave of ...
Malcolm Turnbull has a point about FTTN. Copper is showing itself to be more resilient than many would have you believe. Copper is more than cable of delivering speeds up to 100 Mbps on a fibre to the node network, if vectoring is applied. That’s the claim on this week’s ...
The NBN has dominated discussions on government policy, almost to the total exclusion of other telecommunications initiatives. Whilst the government has pursued its gold plated fixed line solution, Australia has become one of the world’s fastest adopters of smart phones. The mobile industry did this with little in the way of ...
NBN Co budgeted $11.3 billion to build the network past 10.2 million existing (or ‘brownfields’) premises by 2021: that’s a cost per premises of $1100. The Coalition has been pressing NBN Co for some time to reveal its actual cost per premises on the parts of the network built to date. The ...
This week, with the Coalition’s broadband policy just around the corner, NBN Co’s rollout seems fraught with delays. Mind you, it wouldn’t be the first government sponsored initiative to run behind schedule. Yet, in this week’s CrossTalk podcast, Liberal MP Paul Fletcher asks whether the NBN Co management team really understands ...
An article published on the ABC’s Technology+Games website yesterday has inadvertently emphasised how much of a winner Malcolm Turnbull might be on to when he releases his alternative NBN policy, possibly as soon as next month. The article, written by Richard Chirgwin, is headed “21 billion dollars: The cost of upgrading ...