Demand for the government's nascent national broadband network has been thrown into fresh doubt after it was revealed that the high-speed network launched in Melbourne by Telstra a year ago has only attracted 200 customers, despite being available to nearly one million premises.
Hackers have found a new weakness in earlier versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) Web browsing software, which could be used to remotely seize control of computers from unsuspecting users.
With VHA making much of its new 'post paid plans with 'unlimited' on-net calling and with Virgin Mobile countering by pointing out that it has offered the same 'for years' it seems that Virgin's parent, Optus, it seems, couldn't resist getting in on the act by announcing new prepaid offerings that it claims are 'virtually unlimited'.
The International Telecommunication Union has given broad support to the Rudd Government's telecommunications policy of funding the NBN in parallel with a tightening of regulation, in a wide-ranging report looking at telecommunications regulatory reform worldwide.
As a mobile phone telco, it's bad enough to supply a phone with malware on the internal storage device. Doubly so when the recipient works for a major anti-malware vendor.