The murmurs of colleagues and Twitter users recently seems to be that Vodafone’s network has been struggling a bit recently, which means that VHA’s announcement to boost backhaul capacity, which should improve network performance. The roll out will happen over the next two years, so don’t expect your iPhone’s voicemails to start coming through immediately just yet, Voda customers… [VHA]
The NBN was one of the key issues of the recent federal election and ended up swaying two out of three of the independents to give Labor power. Since then, it’s become a somewhat tedious battle of the ridiculous between Conroy and Turnbull. But given that it’s going to be the backbone of our information economy for decades to come, we should be paying attention to what’s happening with its development. So welcome to the new weekly wrap-up of “What happened with the NBN this week?”
For many people, voting in Saturday’s election was like choosing between a lobotomy or castration. The lack of an easy choice in government has led the country to its first hung parliament since WWII, with 78.1 percent of the vote counted. But without a clear leading party, what does that mean for the NBN?
Since Google wants to control all forms of communication, the logical next step is being not just what you do on the internet, but how you access the internet as well. To do that, they’ll deploy 1gbps fibre to you.
How crappy is the current state of broadband? Amazon Web Services’ new Import/Export data delivery moves files using the postal service because broadband is too slow.
Google policy analyst Derek Slater—who’s so obviously related to Christian Slater—explains how to reshape broadband in the US. Step one: Own the actual pipes that run to your house.
PC Mag is reporting that Verizon is looking at a couple different ways to spread the good word of FiOS beyond the projected 18 million homes it’ll reach in 2010, maybe by using less, um, fibre after that, according to tech chief Mark Wegleitner.
