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Australian and NZ ICT and telco, Visionstream, has appointed a new general manager to lead its Australian comms business after the previous GM decided to move overseas.

Internet Australia (IA) has called for an urgent re-think on NBN urging the Australian Government Senate inquiry last Friday to ‘just do it’ and deploy fibre.

A popular misconception about fibre is that eavesdropping on traffic within the cable is not possible. However, devices are readily available and relatively cheap to ‘snoop’ traffic on fibre cables.

The nbn company revealed last night in a Senate Estimates hearing that it has ordered $14 million of copper amounting to 1800 kilometres of twisted pair cables for the FttN component of the Coalition Government’s Multi-Technology-Mix (MTM) National Broadband Network.

The latest figures show more than 300 million homes and businesses across the Asia Pacific now have access to ‘fibre services’, which is 36.8% higher than in 2013.

Fibre to the Home connections are something many Japanese have signed up to in the tens of millions for years, but DSL connections are steadily falling.

There are clear environmental benefits to a full optical fibre network, in stark contrast to FTTN which comes a cropper as fibre to the copper.

Superloop to raise $17.5 million on ASX listing and continue its ongoing mission to build the leading independent fibre company across APAC.

Telstra loves to launch the fastest first, so I wonder if Telstra’s new CEO, Andrew Penn, is interested in 35x LTE spectral efficiency from Artemis Networks?

ISP Spirit Telecom has begun offering symmetric broadband to its customers.

Sydney’s Luna Park is 80 years old, yet successfully hosts a range of cutting edge events like last week’s top-notch VMware vForum 2014, with the Park implementing the fastest and latest broadband and Wi-Fi along with biometrics coming soon to make experiencing the park’s magic and fun smoother and better than ever!

Australia has the second highest rate of broadband mobile in the world but ranks a lowly 21st place in fixed broadband. Australia has 114.4 wireless broadband subscriptions per 100 population but just 26.1 fixed connections per 100, according to the latest figures from the OECD.

ASX-listed communications solutions provider Vocus Communications has confirmed that it will acquire New Zealand-based fibre provider FX Networks for $107.7 million (NZ$115.8 million).

iiNet has secured an ACT Government contract to build a free WiFi network in the next 12 months which will provide wireless coverage across 12 business districts in Canberra.

Labor’s NBN keeps shrinking. An internal NBN Co document shows the proportion of properties that will be connected to fibre has again been reduced.

In its submission to the Vertigan NBN report Telstra has argued in favour of its structural separation – so long as the regulatory framework of the NBN does not change too much.

Labor has announced it will launch legislation in the Senate today in a bid to keep its Fibre-to-the-Premise NBN rolling out in Tasmania.

Their fast bowlers might be rubbish but an internet connection in England has hit the "fastest speed ever", reaching scorching speeds of 1.4 terabits a second.

The Coalition has broken a key election promise, announcing the NBN Co will no longer be able to complete the first stage of the network by 2016.

Broadband Minister Stephen Conroy presented CeBIT Sydney with a double whammy today, launching both National ICT Careers Week and the country's new National Cloud Strategy.