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• M2 aids e-governance program for senior citizens

  By Hafizah Osman | 20 May, 2013 16:43

  Telco service provider and part of the M2 Telecommunications Group (ASX: MTU), iPrimus, has aided in the delivery of the Digital Local Government Program alongside the City of Whittlesea

• BUDGET 2013: Full round-up

  By Mike Gee | 15 May, 2013 15:00

  Treasurer Wayne Swan's sixth budget may well be his last. But it certainly had some highlights although most analysts agree that it didn't offer a great deal to Australian economy. The following stories offer a broad-based, ICT-centric coverage of the budget.

• iiNet introduces new 4G mobile fleet plans

  By Hafizah Osman | 15 May, 2013 10:29

  DSL Internet service provider, iiNet, has introduced new 4G mobile fleet plans that are specifically designed for SMB customers that have multiple staff.

• Optus suffers 7.5pc slump in FY net profit

  By AAP | 15 May, 2013 10:11

  Australia's second-biggest telco, Optus, has suffered a 7.5 per cent slump in net profit for the year to March 31.

• BUDGET 2013: Treasurer Wayne Swan's 2013/14 budget speech

  By AAP | 14 May, 2013 21:40

  This is the full transcript of the Treasurer, Wayne Swan's Federal Budget 2013/14 speech.

• BUDGET 2013: Satellite Phone Subsidy Scheme extended

  By Mike Gee | 14 May, 2013 20:27

  The Satellite Phone Subsidy Scheme has been extended to June 30, 2014, to assist Australians living and working in regional and remote areas.

• BUDGET 2013: $12.9m extra for NBN initiatives

  By Mike Gee | 14 May, 2013 20:17

  The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, has announced an extra $12.9 million for new digital initiatives to showcase the possibilities of the National Broadband Network.

• Huawei signs memorandum of understanding for OSS interoperability initiative

  By Hafizah Osman | 14 May, 2013 11:27

  ICT technology vendor, Huawei, has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for an Operations Support System Interoperability Initiative (OSSii) alongside other major OSS vendors, Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks.

• PROFILE: Working towards global ICT

  By Patrick Budmar | 28 July, 2011 10:27

  While Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) has been in the Australian market for several years, the company has recently found itself in the spotlight following a series of high profile acquisitions. ARN spoke to NTT’s Australian managing director and CEO, Yoshimasa Hashimoto, about its local plans.<

• ISP Q&A: TransACT's Ivan Slavich on networks, the NBN and more

  By Spandas Lui | 24 June, 2011 21:45

  The Federal Government’s $36 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) aspires to be an open-access network which will eventually level the playing-field in the broadband market for ISPs nationwide.

  But one company already has its own open-access network, albeit on a smaller scale.

  TransACT began its life in the 2000 and has strong ties with the main utility services supplier in ACT, ActewAGL. Its origins stemmed from the fact Telstra and Optus left Canberra out of their HFC broadband network footprint.

• 11 Android apps to boost speed, battery life

  By Eric Geier | 20 September, 2011 06:11

  The mobile operating system Android for phones and tablets offers a wide variety of apps and can be quite useful in your professional and personal life. But after you've added a bunch of apps and used it for a while, Android can also get bogged down or unstable, run slowly and/or eat battery juice too quickly.

• IN DEPTH: Star struck in a world of satellites and secrets

  By Spandas Lui | 15 August, 2011 16:25

  A long worn-out road leads to the plot of land where the Optus Sydney Satellite Earth Station resides.

• NEWS FEATURE: The Digital Economy Strategy - a roadmap to where?

  By Spandas Lui | 04 July, 2011 15:43

  The Digital Economy Strategy, recently announced at ceBIT Australia 2011, has been warmly received by the industry. But analysts are less certain of the strategy.

• Cell-phone service surprises & portion sizes

  By Martyn Williams | 16 May, 2009 02:27

  For the past 10 years I've expected three constants when visiting the U.S.: friendly people, large portions of food and bad cell-phone coverage.