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Vodafone Class Action: Everything You Need To Know
Law firm Piper Alderman is back to fight for disgruntled Vodafone customers with a three-year old class action lawsuit that aims to take the telco for all its worth for alleged bad service in 2010-11. The law firm won’t be officially filing the suit for three months so that new claimants can come on board. Here’s how to get involved, along with everything you need to know.
The Right Hand Of Telstra: Meet The In-House Deathgrip Tester
Deathgrip. It sounds like a Harry Potter villain or a Darth Vader finishing-move. No matter what it sounds like, it’s still the arch-nemesis of cellular networks. When Apple addressed the iPhone 4′s deathgrip issue — dubbed Antennagate — it dragged other manufacturers down with it by saying that the same thing happens to all phones when you hold them wrong. Those manufacturers quickly rebuked the claims of Steve Jobs, but inside a sealed, top-secret Australian facility, behind a thick, steel door, Telstra was testing all of its handsets for deathgrip symptoms. The results: deathgrip affects every handset ever made.
Wi-Fi-Blocking Wallpaper Protects Your Web Fortress By Keeping Neighbors Out
Scientists from the institut polytechnique Grenoble INP and the Centre Technique du Papier have developed a novel new product so gratuitous, it almost seems necessary: a silver-crystal coated wallpaper that can block neighbours from freeloading off your Wi-Fi network. The silver crystals are arranged in such a way that they are able to block certain wireless frequencies, not least of which is the same frequency as a WiFI router.
A 512Gbps Fibre Optic Network? Yes Please
Fibre optics are the future of data transfer, no matter what your opinion on the NBN. But in Germany, the future’s already here: Deutsche Telekom has a working 512Gbps optical fibre that’s working in the real world. I want it.
Vodafone Rails In More LTE Spectrum
Vodafone’s LTE plans have added new spectrum in the 1800MHz range via a deal with railway authorities in Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney.
iiNet Hits Its 500,000th Port In Gosford NSW
Back in 2004, iiNet decided to try and build its own network to try and combat Telstra’s monopoly. Today the company announced its just installed its half-millionth broadband port in Gosford, NSW. The lucky customer connected to that port also wins out, with iiNet giving her 500,000GB of data and a Fetch TV service – hopefully she doesn’t have to use all that quota in a month… [iiNet]
Telstra Doubles Data In Home Bundles
Remember the days when Telstra used to be completely stingy with data regardless of what plan you were on? Those days are even further behind now, with the company doubling the included data with all home bundle plans.
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