CommsWire weekly news - 6 February 2015

The great data retention debate; Outrage over secrecy on cost report; Abbot tries to wedge Labor; Fletcher to take over from Turnbull?; BT buys EE for ?12.5 billion ? and the Germans move in; Telstra?s new CIO; A million Aussies have two phones

CommsWire daily news - 5 February 2015

Heir apparent ? Fletcher in the hot seat if Turnbull kicked upstairs; Spark and Vocus form JV on Kiwi cable Wi-Fi and IPTV upgrade at MCG; Megaport launches services into HK and NZ; Deloitte launches Australian cybercentre; Wheeler comes out fighting for net neutrality; Apple grows iOS market share

CommsWire weekly news - 16 January 2015

CYBERTERRORISM SPOOKS THE SPOOKS; iiNet warns on Telstra?s interim HFC advantages; Telstra launches trading network for global financial community; Huawei now bigger than Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent combined; Telstra confirms Pacnet acquisition; Aussie Internet speeds up, but ranking down; Rude awakening for Queensland Optus users; ?A billion smartphone upgrades this year?; F5 brings cloud DDoS mitigation to Australia; Samsung ?not buying BlackBerry?; Net neutrality debate hots up in US; Meru...

CommsWire daily news - 16 January 2015

iiNet warns on Telstra?s interim HFC advantages; ?A billion smartphone upgrades this year?; F5 brings cloud DDoS mitigation to Australia; Net neutrality debate hots up in US; Samsung ?not buying BlackBerry?; Meru partners with Blue Connections

Why today's broadband is not your everyday utility.

I am surprised by how often I am told that broadband should be just treated like our other utilities such as electricity, gas, water and (of course) sewers.  Marc Andressen, founder of Netscape, explained this better than anyone else back in February 2014.