News

• Simon Hackett leaves executive role at Internode, joins iiNet

  By Spandas Lui | 28 May, 2012 14:12

  Plenty of changes at Internode as it integrates with iiNet after being acquired for $105 million.

• Wozniak glad he never had to run Apple

  By Spandas Lui | 14 May, 2012 16:04

  Engineers may be a vital part of Apple’s success but the tech giant’s co-founder, Steve Wozniak, is glad they aren’t the ones calling the shots at the company.

• To ISPs: Expand in business segment or die in consumer space

  By Spandas Lui | 04 May, 2012 14:45

  ISPs need to target the business and mobile segment as the fixed-line consumer category becomes increasingly less profitable, according to Ovum research director and telco analyst, David Kennedy.

• Internode adds 240 exchanges to ADSL2+ service

  By Spandas Lui | 01 May, 2012 10:10

  Internode is now offering its Easy Broadband ADSL2+ service from an additional 240 exchanges.

• yARN: It’s time for AFACT to accept the facts

  By Nick Broughall | 30 April, 2012 12:04

  Recently, the highest court in Australia unanimously dismissed AFACT’s appeal that ISP iiNet was accountable for the bittorrent file-sharing occurring on its network. It was the final skirmish in the entertainment industry’s three-year fight to try and change the role of the ISP in its fight against piracy.

• iiNet Business gets serious, undergoes channel revamp

  By Spandas Lui | 27 April, 2012 12:56

  iiNet Business admits it has been neglecting its resellers and is undergoing changes to make the most of its channel base.

• New NBN ISP: There’s still room for fresh national broadband providers to compete

  By Spandas Lui | 23 April, 2012 16:23

  New ISP, Australian Broadband Services (Ausbbs), is confident there is a still opportunity for companies like itself to compete on a national scale.

• iiNet wins in AFACT High Court appeal over copyright case

  By Spandas Lui | 20 April, 2012 10:12

  iiNet (ASX:IIN) has won against the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) in the High Court in an online piracy case launched over three years ago.

• No more room for new national ISPs post-NBN: Internode's Hackett

  By Spandas Lui | 17 April, 2012 10:29

  There isn’t much consolidation left in the fixed-line broadband market and it is too late now to become a national ISP thanks to the National Broadband Network (NBN), according to Internode managing director, Simon Hackett.

• NBN goes wireless with iiNet

  By Patrick Budmar | 02 April, 2012 12:37

  Whether its fibre, satellite and wireless, iiNet now has the honour of becoming the first company to offer the NBN across all three.

• iiNet speeds up broadband service transfer process

  By Spandas Lui | 19 March, 2012 11:10

  A customer can move from their current ISP to iiNet in just a couple of hours.

• iiNet switches to ‘anytime quota’

  By Hafizah Osman | 16 March, 2012 16:54

  iiNet packs flexibility into its plans

• iiNet makes a bid for .brand domain

  By Spandas Lui | 09 March, 2012 11:57

  iiNet looking forward to new possibilities and opportunities a .iinet domain ending would bring

• iiNet launches relief package for NSW flood-affected customers

  By Spandas Lui | 08 March, 2012 13:34

  iiNet has announced a relief package which include cancellation of service without penalty and extended payment options for customers affected by the NSW floods.

• Optus, Primus preparing for NBN satellite service launch

  By Spandas Lui | 02 March, 2012 14:33

  Optus and Primus Telecom are both getting ready to launch National Broadband Network (NBN) satellite services but they are staying mum on the timeframe.