Even though Microsoft may not count Tasmania as part of Australia, our southern brothers have one big technological advantage over the rest of us – the government is starting the rollout of the NBN down there. And now that little advantage has a fringe benefit, with Hybrid TV announcing that they will be offering participants in the NBN trial a freed TiVo for a year in order to truly test out the network.
iPrimus sent out a statement from Marketing and Product General Manager Andrew Sims in response to yesterday’s announcement from Telstra on their broadband pricing overhaul. Normally I wouldn’t do this, but it’s Friday, and I love me some smacktalk!
As soon as FCC’s Julius Genachowski takes out his mighty sword to kill internet providers’ greed-driven traffic filtering, the fat cats are already attacking. A Comcast fat cat named David L. Cohen, who of course is playing the FUD card.
Julius Genachowski is the honourable Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. And Julius Genachowski is in to kick some telecommunications companies’ arse, because he wants to introduce legislation to forbid content or traffic throttling to avoid more comcasting.
