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Articles tagged with: Melbourne
Airspan to Expand Australian WiMAX Network
Australian WiMAX network operator, BigAir Group is expanding its network after signing a supply contract with Airspan Networks. more
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Vodafone-Hutchison Joint Venture to Cut 450 Jobs in Australia
..b: The Age more
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Wireless Broadband Boosts Australian Economy by $4.7 Billion
Australia's rapid take-up of wireless broadband has boosted economic productivity, according to an economist. Dr Paul Paterson of Concept Economics says a study looking at the economic impact of wireless broadband estimates that if take up continues at current levels there will be an ongoing annual productivity dividend to Australians of AU$7.4 billion (US$4.7 billion) - the equivalent of AU$250 (US$158) for every household. more
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High speed broadband will create energy bottleneck and slow Internet
In a world-first model of internet power consumption, University of melbourne researchers have been able to identify the major contributors to Internet power consumption as the take-up of broadband services grows in the coming years. more
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Australia's Telstra to Cut 800 Jobs
Australia's Telstra has announced that it will be cutting 800 jobs as part of its five-year Transformation plan. Taking advantage of new capabilities in databases, systems and processes, several of Telstra's biggest business units have reduced duplication and bureaucracy, hence the job cuts. more
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Optus Australia Suffers 3G Network Failure
A system failure shut down Optus Australia's 3G network along the east coast, including melbourne for some eight hours on Friday. The GSM network in the area was unaffected by the outage, and while 3G phones should normally drop down automatically to the GSM network for voice calls, it was reported that customers were having to manually switch to the GSM service. Access to 3G data services were completely disabled. more
Related Tags: hspa, optus, 900mhz, 3g-phones, wireless-broadband, Australia
Prosecution Starts in Motorola Insider Trading Case
The UK's financial watchdog, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has launched its first prosecution for insider dealing - relating to the Motorola purchase of TTP Communications in 2006. more
Melbourne Residents Still Using Mobile Phones while Driving
The number of drivers at risk from handheld mobile phone use while driving in melbourne has remained unchanged between 2002 and 2006, according to research published in the Medical Journal of Australia. The study, conducted by Associate Professor David Taylor, Austin Health's Director of Emergency and General Medicine Research, and colleagues, recorded the mobile phone use of 20,207 drivers at 12 sites on three consecutive Tuesdays. more
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Australian Railway Finances HSDPA Network Expansion
Seventy-seven new HDSPA capable regional base stations will be built as part of an AU$85 (US$69) million communications deal signed today between the Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) and the Australia based network operator, Telstra. more
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Australian Network Deploying HSDPA
Optus Australia has said that over six hundred base stations in Sydney and melbourne will be ready for HSDPA service by May 2007; and all Optus 3G sites across Australia upgraded to HSDPA by the end of May 2007. more
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