Why the HFC is no NBN alternative: A sob story
If you're going to design a network and call it consumer-grade, it actually has to be able to cope with the massive data demands of your average consumer.
Full Duplex
A view from the trenches of Australian telecommunications. As the name implies, it’s a two-way conversation and we ask you not to pull any punches ... we won’t.
David Braue
A bulletin board troll in the 1980s, David Braue has been online long enough to remember using the text-based Lynx browser to visit www.ibm.com, one of around 100 Web sites available back then. Telecoms has remained an obsession as he developed ever more complicated schemes to stay in touch with family overseas without going broke. After more than a decade covering Australia's ICT industry - and watching our telcos stumble time and again - he's eager to call them to task.
Latest Posts
Do rural Aussies deserve a less-capable NBN?
Do rural Australians really want, expect, and deserve less from their broadband than those of us in the cities? Some private-sector telco execs seem to think so. But, of course they would.
Will Turnbull use an NBN Co boardroom coup to manipulate Telstra?
It's clear that Malcolm Turnbull wouldn't keep Mike Quigley around for long if he could help it — but would a victorious Coalition dangle NBN Co executive positions to get Telstra to help make FttN's numbers work?
Libs rewriting the laws of physics and finance
Turnbull can hardly be budgeting for a return on an FttN NBN investment; how could he when he has made it clear that there is no viable business case around the NBN?
Optus can level the 4G playing field
Optus could very well find itself able to match Telstra's wireless coverage for the first time ever.
Turnbull should demonstrate broader comms nous
However you feel about the national broadband network, it’s hard to dispute that lately, Australia's Shadow Minister for Communications and Broadband Malcolm Turnbull has been struggling to find new traction in his arguments against the project.
Will Australia's 4G pass the iPhone 5 test?
Just how will Australian 4G networks cope with the incoming tsunami of iPhone users?
FttP half-truths mask whole-NBN deception
Malcolm Turnbull has been spruiking 12Mbps minimum broadband for years. Suddenly, it’s "just not satisfactory" — and it's OK for him to continue to dodge any substantive questions around the Coalition’s plan. Maybe that’s because nobody's asking them.
Turnbull's NBN French KISS is right, but so wrong
Malcolm Turnbull has been caught investing in a telco that's rolling out fibre to the home, despite opposing such a move in Australia.
Group buying could extend NBN fibre footprint
The AU$150,000 quotation from NBN Co to run fibre to an SA man's home may seem extravagant, but it's a great benchmark for satellite and wireless-targeted communities that could use group-buying strategies to broker an acceptable price.