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Australia
NSW government axes free WiFi plan
2 May, 2008
The New South Wales government has defended its plan to abandon the creation of a free wireless broadband network in Sydney's CBD by pointing to the fact that similar schemes in Chicago, Houston and San Francisco had either been scrapped or were being bailed out by taxpayers because they had failed commercially.
Website leaks iPhone Optus deal
1 May, 2008
There has been an unsubstantiated website announcement this week that Optus will be one of several Australian mobile service providers to be selling Apple's iPhone with sales and service commencing in the last week of June.
Ericsson calls for spectrum reallocation
1 May, 2008
In response to the federal Government's review of how spectrum bands are allocated in Australia, Ericsson has stepped in to argue that the spectrum band used by television networks to broadcast sports events or natural disasters should be reallocated to wireless broadband services.
Optus gets political
30 April, 2008
Accusing the Federal Government of being "seduced" by Telstra, Optus CEO Paul O'Sullivan has not ruled out taking legal action over the cancellation of the billion-dollar OPEL regional broadband deal.
CDMA closes without incident
29 April, 2008
On the first day that Telstra's CDMA network was turned off there were no calls of complaint reported from the very few customers still connected to the old service.
NSW Police fund own NextG rural service
29 April, 2008
In what may considered as a perturbing precedent, NSW Police have put up $150,000 to help fund the installation of a communications tower that will provide the Next G service to a region Telstra had once deemed commercially unviable.
Mobiles outnumber people
29 April, 2008
With an increase of 7.6 per cent from the year before, the number of mobile phones now exceeds the Australian population with 21.26 million handsets in operation.
What to do with CDMA handsets
29 April, 2008
Record numbers of CDMA subscribers in New South Wales and Victoria have been handing in mobile phones for recycling in the lead up to Telstra's shutdown of its CDMA network.
NextG data dominant
28 April, 2008
While there will always be some disquiet about the migration of rural services from CDMA to NextG there should be little complaint about the superior power for wireless data on the new network.
Counting the cost from CDMA closure
28 April, 2008
Some wireless systems will become obsolete with the closure of Telstra's CDMA network such as the ability to regulate irrigation systems on farms remotely.
Black Spot communities do exist
28 April, 2008
While concerns about the closure of CDMA remain based on a lot of speculation about the replacement quality of the NextG network, there are those rural communities such as Mangoplah that are adamant that wireless service will not be as good.
New Zealand
Competition driving Vodafone to questionable measures
2 May, 2008
Vodafone has been attracting a lot of criticism for its anti-competitive behaviour of locking new mobile phones to the Vodafone network so that owners have to pay $50 to shift to another provider either in New Zealand or when mobile roaming overseas.
Vodafone Office launched
30 April, 2008
With the launch of Vodafone Office, subscribers are now able to keep their landline number and answer it on devices such as IP desktop phones and mobiles.
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