Some Australian ISPs Going Forward With Internet Filter
Though their press releases from last year have re-surfaced recently in an effort to find out more about their intentions, plans and motives, internet service providers such as Telstra, Optus and iPrimus still seem like they are full steam ahead in forcing the read more...
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Whirlpool 2011 Survey Results
The latest numbers are in and the results are interesting to say the least. While the majority of Whirlpool membership is no doubt more technically savvy than your average computer user, the numbers indicate just what many in the computing industry really are feeling about internet service providers in general, the National Broadband Network and Communications Minister Stephen CONROY's other plans. 25,513 people participated in the survey.
Over 58% of respondents have a positive or very positive sentiment about the read more...
Progress On The Australian National Broadband Network
There have been several updates and developments on the national broadband network front, some of which include agreements with Australia's largest telecommunications provider Telstra, changes in several internet service providers plans, realisations of a changing market and plenty more. So what has been happening?
The Australian government has purchased read more...
Internet Filter still on the table, says Stephen Conroy
Australian Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, has recently confirmed reports that the voluntary (for ISPs to implement) internet filter (or censor, which it more closely resembles) is still on the go in being implemented by Telsta, Optus and iPrimus this year and denies any rumour that it is on the backburner.
Stephen Conroy claims that the filter is on its way to being implemented in read more...
Vodafone outages caused by Cyclone Yasi
Tropical Cyclone Yasi ripped through Northern Queensland, Australia last, landing around the Innisfail and Mission Beach area. With strong winds reported up to the 300km/h mark, damage was expected to occur to read more...
Internet Censorship in Australia
The first known instance of mandatory internet censorship in the free Western world and it had to happen in a country that due to bad decisions by previous governments to sell off a public asset containing all of the county's copper lines and internet infrastructure, already have slow internet access with pathetic usage caps.
But now, the purported government now want to make up for the previous government's mistakes by reclaiming Telstra (or at least the wholesale side), make a new fibre-based network up to 100Mbps, then slow it down again with an internet filter, which should be called out for what it really is, an internet censorship regime. read more...