Month of October , 2007

October 4th, 2007 in | read more | add new comment | email this story

COMMENT: Telecom and the Burma crackdown

There’s been a lot of talk and reports of how Internet and technology have managed to focus world attention on the protests and subsequent crackdown in Burma (Myanmar).

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October 8th, 2007 in | read more | 7 comments | email this story

COMMENT: Structural separation: be careful what you wish for

Communications minister Helen Coonan might have done a quick back-flip on the desirability of a Telstra structural separation last week, but reading between the lines of both her comments and those of other industry players there seems to be a residual affection for the idea.     

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October 15th, 2007 in | read more | add new comment | email this story

COMMENT: Overbuilt and overwrought

It is somewhat disappointing that the last substantive communications decision handed down in the fourth term of the Coalition government is also one of its worst—the decision to give Australian Broadband Guarantee money to Telstra to install DSLAMs in regional South Australian exchanges that are already served by government-funded Internode infrastructure.

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October 15th, 2007 in | read more | add new comment | email this story

COMMENT: The lure of social networking

For the past few months or so I’ve been getting an increasing numbers of requests to join this or that social network. Up until a week ago I’d resisted all of them, whether it’s simple email contact organisers such as Plaxo, the lesser known Hi5, the business-minded LinkedIn or the social star of the moment, Facebook.

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