Multicasting in a unicast world
If we’re all watching on-demand videos, should we care how expensive NBN Co’s multicast product is?
Twisted Wire
A weekly podcast on the tangled mess that is the Australian telecommunications industry
Put out by the top hat
Will existing regulation cover Telstra’s implementation of Top Hats across the country, or indeed any new technology ahead of the NBN?
Crazy time to launch an ISP?
With the continuing consolidation of the Australian telco industry, it’s a big gamble to start a new ISP, even in an NBN world.
Is your phone watching you?
Your telco is in a position to know everything about you. But does that mean we should be afraid?
Igniting our digital future
The US White House announced the Ignite initiative last week — a public private partnership to develop applications that take advantage of high speed connectivity. Do we have similar plans here?
Mobile’s low-cost opportunity
How will the emergence of low-cost mobile virtual network operators, like Amaysim, impact the operating margins of the big carriers? Is it a threat or an opportunity?
No margin for profit
It’s been known for a while that smaller ISPs are struggling to make money. Latest figures from Market Clarity help to explain why.
The economics of e-commerce
Australians buy a lot online, but much of it comes from overseas. Will that ever change? Or is geography against us once again?
Australia’s distant cloud
The National Broadband Network (NBN) will provide fat pipes into our homes, creating an appetite for more content, more quickly. Yet, 80 per cent of what we consume resides in the US. Won’t we hit capacity problems?
CT, phone clone
Craig Thomson says his phone might have been cloned, and that’s why it appears that he made phone calls to brothels. Is it a realistic line of defence?
THE TWITTERATI
As the govt penalise universities that do not focus on vocational degrees, worth noting that Boris studied 'Literae Humaniores'. A less job ready degree it would be hard to find.
A downgrade to inflation expectations on Friday gave market sentiment a boost. NAB’s Ray Attrill says it’s been taken as a sign that central banks might have to do less to soften demand and a reduced fear in recession risk. https://t.co/4xdqefB3O0