Telstra announced last week that it had deployed new very small cellular base stations to boost mobile coverage at Flemington Racecourse during the spring racing carnival, but gave no indication that such technology will become a key part of its mobile network.
Alcatel-Lucent has unveiled a comprehensive portfolio of products to help mobile operators meet the challenges of deploying the huge numbers of small base stations that will be needed in urban areas to meet anticipated traffic demands.
In a move to add Wi-Fi capability to its range of mobile network base station products, Ericsson is buying Canadian Wi-Fi company BelAir Networks.
Alcatel-Lucent has unveiled a series of products designed to enable telco service providers to tightly integrate their cloud computing platforms and services with their networks that deliver those services.
Communications minister, senator Stephen Conroy, has won the 2011 award from Global Telecoms Business magazine for "the most significant personal contribution to telecommunications," for his work in developing the National Broadband Network.