Stories about: Optus

As Thursday turned to Friday shoppers in Sydney were among the first in the world to pick up the new phone during a midnight event at a local Optus store.

iiNet has declared that the Rudd government's National Broadband Network (NBN) will be a failure with higher fees for customers, fewer ISPs and a decline in innovation and competition if the current access and regulatory regime is not "dramatically reformed".

The federal government has terminated the funding for the OPEL broadband network.

Multinational mobile handset makers may be dabbling with Linux-powered phones for Asia and the US, but the Australian market has been largely ignored, that is until OpenMoko arrives later this year.

Country Energy (CE) is expected to supply the first commercial Broadband over Power line service in NSW in the latter half of the year. This means Internet surfers in regional NSW will, for the first time, have access to speeds that smash what is available to most users in the city.

Hosting company SmartyHost is turning its attention to the enterprise with the launch of its dedicated hosting business SmartyCorp.

The arrival of Optus ADSL2 will kick-off the critical mass needed to get the ADSL2 ball rolling, according to the chairman of the Service Providers Association (SPAN), John Kranenburg.

Telstra BigPond has launched its movies-on-demand service, with the service available to all Internet users, regardless of ISP.

Australian JBoss users are bracing themselves for an Oracle raid in the wake of mounting speculation that the software giant's CEO Larry Ellison plans to include the J2EE application server provider in his ongoing, open source acquisition spree.

What began with single application, edge network services a few years ago, has exploded into core database and business systems at the Linux-loving Optus.

The days of having to be locked in to your Internet phone call provider are over, thanks to a free service by a local technology company.