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OPEL has funding signed

The federal government has decided it will sign a funding agreement with OPEL for $958 million dollars, showing the public that Telstra’s legal action is vexatious and unwarranted. The OPEL funding agreement hands $958 million to an Australian company, OPEL, … Continue reading

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Dodo Satelitte – The Next Extinction

Dodo, obviously failing to learn from its failure in the dial-up and broadband game with reports of poor speeds on broadband services, and very poor customer service have now decided that screwing city people and pissing them off is not … Continue reading

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eBay – Resolutions aren’t so hard to come by

Yesterday I wrote about how I had an experience on eBay of the unintelligent kind, where the sellers of all the items purchased all made stuff ups! Seller 1 had decided to forget rails for a rackmount server. Seller 2 … Continue reading

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eBay – Online Selling for intellectually impaired people

I bought a few items off eBay recently, I don’t generally buy off eBay, but when the projects dollars don’t match my profit expectations costs must be cut somewhere, and so the obvious was finding good quality hardware on eBay. … Continue reading

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Unwired, Engin and Seven: A perfect threesome?

Unwired provides internet access services over its own wireless networks. Engin provides VoIP – Telephone services over the internet. Seven provides Television, in what can be described as slow play from the US. Seven bought a large stake in Engin … Continue reading

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Deutsche Telekom, Telstra and G9

are the names of the likely pariticipants in the bidding process for a new FTTN network. I believe only one will emerge as the eventual winner, unfortunately. Unless the Taskforce take note of Deutsche Telekom’s idea of a public / … Continue reading

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Telstra jacks up line rental

In news you won’t find on Telstra’s own Now We Are Talking website (why is that? Can’t take the good with the bad?), If you don’t use Telstra for your STD calls, it may very soon cost you more. Telstra … Continue reading

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Is Broadband / Telecommunications worth voting for?

A Topic I discovered recently, is the topic of Broadband and Telecommunications (and the future of it) becoming a voting issue. The possibilities at this point in time are endless, both sides are fighting for your vote, and both will … Continue reading

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Virgin’s New Virgin Network Experienced Outage

In what is still doing better than Telstra’s NextG, Virgin’s HSDPA Network experienced an outage lasting a total of 5 hours. Telstra’s NextG network had network issues spanning 3 days, with one of those days experiencing a total failure. Whilst … Continue reading

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MPAA to start hassling Australians

Just when you thought we had one evil company holding Australia’s telecommunication freedoms to ransom, another company is planning to join the arena of denying users freedom. Amazingly however, Telstra’s Bigpond ISP has been mentioned in the media as not … Continue reading

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New News: Telstra dislikes G9 proposal Pt 2

Continued from yesterday, moving through to Page 9 of the mammoth PDF that is Telstra’s trash about why the ACCC shouldn’t accept the G9 proposal, we see more invalid rubbish from the rubbish that wrote it, Telstra. 1. It does … Continue reading

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New News: Telstra dislikes G9 proposal

It’s not really new news, any idiot could have guessed that Telstra would not like G9’s proposal at all. Would you like the idea of someone else coming along, and being able to pay you a fair price for access … Continue reading

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Labor’s Tony Kelly: OPEL is second rate broadband

Recently, Labor Member, Regional Development Minister for NSW, Tony Kelly can be echoed in the media as stating that the voters should decide on broadband. Mr Kelly believes that OPEL could leave Regional and Rural broadband users with “second rate … Continue reading

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Optus changes other plans for fusion

Optus has had great success with the fusion phone and internet bundles that it has decided to revamp the rest of its product line up. As early as the start of next month, the current Optus plan line up will … Continue reading

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Bush Broadband to push forward

Telstra’s attempt at delaying the OPEL rollout is one which will fail. Some considerations need to be placed to decide just how far Telstra are going to try and go, to stop any form of regional broadband investment. Consideration 1: … Continue reading

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Telstra holding back kids education

Telstra is the real cause of children not being able to access the resources they might be able to over the internet to further their own education. Telstra’s broadband plans are far from giving users the freedom to access the … Continue reading

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Costs of a Broadband Service

At a consumer level, there’s little in the way of pricing structure of a service. Recently on Telstra’s Now We Are Talking site, Leanne made comments that iiNet get her service for $3.20 and charge her $xx.xx for it. This … Continue reading

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Broadband Bitchfight

The two words I can think to sum up the arguments frrom Telstra, Labor, Optus and our current government to be somewhat of a bitchfight. We see Telstra slamming any moves by our government to introduce competitive, lower priced broadband … Continue reading

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Invite to Forum on Labor’s Excuse for a Broadband Plan

Today in the mail I received an invite to a forum conducted by the Labor party, faking an interest in Central Coast broadband services. They state that the new network would be 40 times faster than current speeds.. So, 40 … Continue reading

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8Mbit Goodness – really good!

I have finally done it. I have told Netspace where to shove their incompetence. I am now a happy Exetel customer, with a sweet 8Mbit connection, with courtesy of Telstra, upload artifically capped for no believable technical reason to 384kbps. … Continue reading

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Expensive Shopping

It’s not every so often you go shopping for higher priced items, such as new servers, or cars, but well, both of our new purchases are both coming together at around the same time! 1. A new machine I’ve got … Continue reading

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iiNet allowing users to resell wireless IP access

iiNet teamed up with Tomizone are allowing users to resell wireless internet access! This is a great idea, as one of the bigger set backs in many other countries, and obviously forming in Australia with growth in wireless is users … Continue reading

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Skype is back

At long last, Skype returned back to normal operation today, and has been stable. Why on earth it took so long is a question that only the developers could answer, or why on earth the issue came up to start … Continue reading

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Skype approaches another day of downtime

Skype has continued to suffer from sign on issues, and is now approaching another day of downtime. A report on Skype’s heartbeat page (their own status page), mentions they are no where near complete, but are in a better position … Continue reading

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Skype remains problematic

Skype has since yesterday remained very problematic, and not able to maintain sign in! The issue has gone on so far for nearly 24 hours, which isn’t good considering it’s one of the leading chat / phone programs on the … Continue reading

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New System Migration Complete

I’ve finally done the big move. It took 2 weeks of on again, off again configuration, installation, and migration, but at last, I’ve migrated to my new system! Hardware: * CPU: Intel E6750 CPU (Dual Core 2.66Ghz / 1333 FSB … Continue reading

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Waste of Taxpayer funds: Question Time

For some unknown reason, the TV was left on ABC today, and was probably on it for most of the day. After all the Children’s cartoons flew by, I started hearing the sounds of what can only be described as … Continue reading

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The importance of BACKUP

I can never stress the importance of a backup enough. The same person that had the partition resize issue that other day was having problems starting an application. It turned out that a while back he had a severe system … Continue reading

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What if I were CEO of Telstra?

That’s an interesting thought. If I were CEO of Telstra, what would things be like, what would I do differently to the current (and past CEOs). Let me first state that the idea of a listed company is to release … Continue reading

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Partition Resize = Bad

I was working with someone else on a system today that had an issue with a lack of disk space. This machine was loaded with a fair bit of software, and I don’t think the user was keen on dropping … Continue reading

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