Norway puts brakes on TeliaSonera's Tele2 buyout over competition fears
Swedish-Finnish carrier TeliaSonera needs to convince Norway's regulators that its acquisition of Tele2 Norway won't lead to higher prices for consumers.
Swedish-Finnish carrier TeliaSonera needs to convince Norway's regulators that its acquisition of Tele2 Norway won't lead to higher prices for consumers.
Despite a recent upbeat profit guidance, Western Australian ISP iiNet last week let go of a number of staff; but it won't divulge numbers.
Select Optus iPhone customers have been offered a 40 per cent discount on to-be-determined "early upgrade fees" for Apple's new iPhone 3GS.
Mandatory ISP filtering legislation is expected to be introduced around the middle of 2010, after which there will be a one year period to implement and activate the filtering technology.
Vodafone Australia has blamed Swedish vendor Ericsson for delays to the roll-out of its national 3G mobile network.
Australian Sex Party complains that proposed legislation in Australia would require ISPs to block "refused classification" Web sites - including more than 4 million adult Web sites.
Optus could slash hundreds of jobs this week to counter the effects of a likely economic downturn.
Contrary to reports earlier today that Optus would cut 400 jobs, the telco this afternoon said only 115 from its network division would go.
iiNet managing director Michael Malone said today that the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) shouldn't be able to get out of paying for its failed attempt to sue the provider over copyright breach.
The nation's most-watched start-up NBN Co will this Friday begin the hunt for companies capable of building the systems that will link its network to retail providers.