Category Archives: Random

I was browsing Whirlpool recently, and discovered that a user was posting that the G9 consortium proposed to “rip out” part of Telstra’s copper network lead me to believe that some are blindly believing the crap spewed out on Telstra’s … Continue reading →

If you ever wanted a good reason not to vote Labor (aside from the many good reasons out there already, such as Labor’s previous financial mismanagement, or Labor’s Communications n00b, Stephen Conroy being demonstrated as uninformed by the current Communications … Continue reading →

Telstra has decided to proceed and upgrade its Cable network to offer 30Mbps. But, it didn’t stop there however, it has decided that it will only upgrade the speeds to 30Mbps and offer those speeds to 67% of the population, … Continue reading →

A new release on the DCITA website is the Expert Taskforce guidelines for the provision of a broadband network to Metro and Major Regional Australia funded solely by the private sector. They have released draft guidelines for any interested parties … Continue reading →

That’s the magical question put forth to the leaders today when they are ready to go forth and choose a supplier to win the rights to building Australia’s First FTTN network. Are consumers prepared to pay more for faster speeds? … Continue reading →

This isn’t a post to tear Labor apart, but rather, just to highlight some of what is spat by Senator Stephen Conroy. He recently wrote an article for The Australian (so it is biased), stating that in mid-2009, Coonan’s plan … Continue reading →

In another delay tactic move, Telstra has chosen to play a personal card against the Minister for Communications herself, the intelligent Senator Helen Coonan. Telstra’s move is basically legal action to sue the Minister herself for alledgedly agreeing to the … Continue reading →

Telstra, while bitching at the government for not giving into their temper tantrums and linking possible investment by other companies to both, global warming and terrorism, has decided that they will apparently take some of the $4.1 billion flagged for … Continue reading →

In what can only be believed as a temper tantrum from the big baby themselves, Telstra’s public affairs nuisance Phil Burgess recently was cited in the media. Basically, Fat Phil states that if Telstra didn’t get their way with their … Continue reading →

I sent an email to Netspace Support (an official support medium) questioning the usage figures as being incorrect. The reason behind this is my router supports logging of data usage and I was looking at it, and the usage meter … Continue reading →

Wireless ISP BigAir has beat the lot of them to getting WiMAX off the ground, with wireless ISP BigAir set to roll out and release WiMAX servies across Sydney and Melbourne in coming months. BigAir also propose to expand services … Continue reading →

Limits on usage are some what of the norm here in Australia. Generally you don’t get an unlimited internet connection, you instead, get a limit of xx(x) GB and after you reach that limit, you are slowed right down to … Continue reading →

An article several days ago was printed in ‘The Age’, Singapore was found to own a lot of Australian resources. They own: Optus Australia. This ownership done via SingTel, owned by a holdings company, which the singapore government also has … Continue reading →

GoTalk, the company that purchased the poorly administered, financially incompetent Wild I&T has decided to take the cousin of the company, Koala Telecom. Koala Telecom has 2500 customers, and has a long running bad reputation. Some items worth highlighting: – … Continue reading →

Apparently, according to one Now We Are Talking user, it’s not Telstra’s fault they price their Regional Backhaul at the excessively high rates that they do price them at. It seems, the real blame isn’t Telstra. Jason Torrento has it … Continue reading →

In addition to yesterday’s apparently long article (looks short to me?), I didn’t actually state a few other things related to that topic. The topic was telco consultant, Kevin Morgan, who is likely to be on Telstra’s own payroll, about … Continue reading →

There was a recent article published in The Age, by Kevin Morgan, one of Kim Beasley’s ex-idiot (or employee, whatever you want to call him). The article claims that Telstra is the only choice for broadband, which is an absolute … Continue reading →

Reading more on the Now We Are Talking, I was thinking, what’s more important to this nation, the businesses (and monopolies) that thrive off it, and the people that live in it? Fast Pr0n Affordable Internet Access Return on Investment … Continue reading →

Welcome to a new theme, this theme is a little more, readable, and much easier to read, and allows a little more focus on the comments section, which I don’t think many others were finding too easily in the previous … Continue reading →

It seems that the so called discussion guidelines on the Now We Are Talking website go right out the window in some cases. Cases where Telstra’s rather absurd agenda is being supported by the uninformed. Forums like Whirlpool, allow discussion … Continue reading →

A recent news article has come to my attention that the government plans to spend $1m ($1,000,000) or one million dollars, on a campaign with only ONE goal. It’s not the goal of promoting broadband’s benefits and cost savings to … Continue reading →

I often wonder what is the point of Telstra gaining money, if the next week, or next month, or next year, they are going to have to give it all back to where they get it from anyway? Such a … Continue reading →

Telstra have taken the correct way this time, and worked with the regulator to get regulations removed from a part of its network. With Optus’s massive fixed network roll out, Telstra deem that there is enough competition in the areas … Continue reading →

I’ve been monitoring the ADSL2+ coverage from Optus on the Let’s Go website (here: http://www.letsgo.com.au/adsl2.php) and have discovered that the roll out has slowed considerably. I wrote a post some months back about Gosford’s upgrade to ADSL2+ due soon, and … Continue reading →