CommsWire - 27 July 2016

ACCC wants ISPs to give consumers better broadband speed information The competition regulator, the ACCC, is toughing its stance on Internet Service Providers (ISPs) calling for them to provide far better information to consumers about the performance of their services ? in particular the speed of their Internet connections. Comms Alliance blames ACCC on broadband speed information

CommsWire - 30 June 2016

Vocus to buy Nextgen for $807 million Vocus Communications is set to buy fibre network owner Nextgen in a deal worth $807 million. Telstra to invest $250m to improve network Telstra plans to invest $250 million to make its network more resilient and to improve performance, the company's chief executive officer Andrew Penn said today. NBN Co chief architect Cross quits after six years

CommsWire - 17 June 2016

Australian data centre services market: growing at 12.4% CAGR to 2022, $2+ Villion by 2021 Demand and growth of the Australian data centre (DC) services market is being driven by big data, IoT, analytics, mobile data, storage, computing power, infrastructure and more. Internet Australia takes Switkowski to task over NBN ?leaks? comments

CommsWire - 14 April 2016

CenturyLink adds Australian cloud node Global cloud provider CenturyLink has installed a Cloud node in Sydney to link up with its 73 data centres and 13 other cloud nodes around the world. ACMA boosts consumer consultative services forum

CommsWire - 11 March 2016

Vodafone Australia paid no tax in 2014 ? Why?; ICANN submits plan to grab Internet functions off US Government; Optus Wi-Fi up and running at Mirvac shopping centres; Lenovo and Juniper team up to conceive next generation data centres; Avaya?s Zang enhances customer, employee comms; Samsung S7 and S7 edge swing into stores at long last; Bosch launches own cloud for its IoT services.

Economics of public WiFi

This paper gathers together the basic economic arguments for and against public provision of municipal WiFi. First, we consider what type of economic good WiFi is, and the logic for public rather than market provision. Second, we review four main economic arguments against public WiFi (capitalization; no market failure; competitive distortion; inefficiency of supply side response). Finally, we consider what may be the strongest, yet least made, case for publicly funded municipal WiFi, which is...

Public Wi-Fi

This article explores how free Wi-Fi services offered by cultural institutions and municipalities influence public spaces, and asks how such services can engender practices which promote the social good.

CommsWire - 27 January 2016

NBNgate:Commentary; NEXTDC expands data centre services for existing client; NAB?s new mobile payment service backed by VISA; We rank 22nd in global innovation stakes: ITIF; Hey You adds Uber to its order-ahead service; 1 in 3 home Wi-Fi routers to double as public hotspots by 2017; Nokia and KT conduct claimed ?world's first? eMTC field trial on LTE network.

CommsWire - 1 December 2015

Macquarie Telecom slams ACCC as ?out of touch? re: NBN competition; Wi-Fi dominates smartphone data consumption; Telstra's 'hip and trendy? flagship store opens in Melbourne; Yatango down and maybe out; Drive someone else?s car at Sydney and Brisbane airports; Optus does 5-year pre-paid deal driving OVO?s V8 Supercars; Optus offers Microsoft?s Lumia 950 and 950 XL with limited big bonuses.

CommsWire - 13 November 2015

Entertainment and NBN drive Optus Growth; NEC Connects Timorese Schools to Internet for the First Time; Everybody?s Doing Cloud; ACMA Partway Through ICT Infrastructure Transformation; Lack of ?Curiosity? Impacts Technology Innovation: Report; D-Link Taipan ? World?s First AC3200 Router; Inspire Wire.