Aussie boffin turbo charges copper broadband
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Who needs fibre? An Aussie PhD student has developed an algorithm that he says can turbo charge an ordinary copper phone line to deliver downloads at 200Mbit/s.â¦
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Big copper has provided big results, but what's next for the share price?
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FTP, VPNs and Outlook should now be working Just as 3 launches its Â£10 tariff in the UK, its service in Ireland has been suffering incompatibilities, slow speeds, and complaints, forcing the company to waive a month's subs as it struggles to get the service usable.â¦
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SBC Communications said it will cut DSL prices to just $19.95 a month for people who sign up for its full unlimited local and long-distance phone plans. [Broadband Blog]
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The communications watchdog is looking to create an independent pricing structure for broadband operators to offer connections directly to customers through Local Loop Unbundling (LLU), instead of renting them from major network owner BT.
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Amputates vestigial home broadband tentacle Cable and Wireless has fired off letters to Bulldog broadband customers telling them they will be cut off in less than a month because it doesn't want them dangling around anymore.â¦
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Powered Gig Ethernet for Â£30 a port Powered Gig Ethernet just got cheaper. Allied Telesis said its new AT-GS900/8POE switch provides eight Gigabit ports plus a fibre uplink option, all the ports are powered - either eight at 7W each or four at the full 15W - and it's only Â£230, so around Â£30 a port.â¦
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Overseas WLAN access at no extra charge - for now
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Company pursuing different wholesale access rates to its local phone network for Net phone providers.
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NEW ZEALANDERS are likely to get a legal entitlement to broadband under a proposal for a new, contestable Kiwi Share agreement that Communications Minister David Cunliffe expects to put in front of the Cabinet by the end of the year.
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By Kroll, Morgan  A New Zealand woman e-mailed IUT country's largest public company. Telecom, to see if she could get broadband from its Internet provider, Xtra.
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BT thanks blames IT system for extra revenue stream The groundswell of anger from former Pipex customers at being stealthily migrated to Tiscali broadband could soon burst into a full-scale rage, because like unhappy TalkTalk customers before them they could end up Â£125 out of pocket if they decide to take their business elsewhere.â¦
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Broadband gets faster in the UK but some customers are not reaching speeds that firms advertised.
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Also: New Zealand teen runs internet banking scam. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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FCC clears the way for more companies to offer the alternative form of Net access. The US Federal Communications Commission this week cleared the way for power companies to roll out broadband over power line
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British Telecom says it will double the broadband speeds of most home and business customers.
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Telco weighs up broadband options BT is considering speeding up its broadband service by pushing it to a blink-and-you'll-miss-it 50Mb download per second for its customers.â¦