People Telecom is the first ISP to sell ADSL2+ via Telstra Wholesale, but the pricing is unlikely to excite anyone in metro areas.

iPrimus will help its customers avoid nasty excess usage fees by shaping its mobile broadband plans once the limit is reached.

Internode has begun selling naked DSL on its own DSLAMs, including to customers living far away from their exchange.

Telstra has dropped the pricing of its 3G wireless service, and has reduced the number of plans considerably.

Mobile phone/broadband provider 3 has struck a deal to get access to Telstra's much admired NextG network.

Only weeks after increasing the limits on some of its existing data plans, 3 has launched a new special offer for 6GB of mobile 3G data for $39/month.

Optus is experience a major outage in QLD and northern NSW due to two simultaneous network failures.

The ACCC will force Telstra to provide ongoing reports about access to Telstra exchange facilities, in response to continued complaints from ISPs.

The federal government has published a large number of submissions on the regulatory issues surrounding new proposed new national broadband network.

iiNet has increased the quotas on its range of ADSL plans, with customers being given the benefits automatically today.

Australian Internet Solutions (AINS) has purchased the customer base of troubled ISP Blitz Telecom for its SuperNerd brand, in a last minute deal.

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Blitz Telecom, purchaser of G-Node and Koala Telecom, is in financial trouble and was placed in administration earlier this month.