iiNet is offering free streaming access to English Premier League matches.
That’s “free” as in there will be no charge for the matches, and “free” in that iiNet won’t count the data usage (streaming will be in .wmv format, and will require Media Player 10) against the user’s monthly allowance.
The Premier League season starts on the 16th of August with Arsenal vs West Bromwich Albion at 12:45 UK time (9:45pm AEST). Up to four live games and five recorded games will be made available each week.
Telstra has done an about-face on its broadband wholesale strategy by suggesting it might be willing to resell ADSL2+ high speed internet services to rival ISPs.
Telstra, which had delayed its switching on of more then 900 ADSL2+ exchanges for three years until April this year, has traditionally denied competing ISPs access to its ADSL2+ network in fear that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) would force it to resell the connection to competitors at low-ball prices.
At the time of Telstra’s opening of the 900 ADSl2+ ports, the company declined to state whether or not it would offer wholesale access to its freshly unveiled high-speed service.
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Open source advocates will have something to smile about as Internode today launches a high-speed Australian mirror site to SourceForge.net, providing its customers with unmetered access to the the world’s largest Open Source software development website.
SourceForge.net provides free hosting to Open Source software development projects with a centralised resource for managing projects, issues, communications and code.
By opening a mirror to the development website, Internode has extended the available unmetered downloadable content for its customers to more than 32 terabytes (TB).
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iPrimus yesterday unveiled a new ADSL2+ offering that the company claims includes the largest data amount ever offered by an Australian broadband provider to residential customers.
Dubbed the Big Kahuna, the plan offers 200 GB of data for $79.95 per month. However, the 200 GB data capacity does not come as a flat quota.
During peak hours (12pm to 12am) customers will be limited to 40 GB of data capacity while off peak hours (12am to 12pm) will see the remainder 160 GB in use.
Once customers exceed the allocated data quota, download speeds will be shaped to 64 kbps.
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Australian ISP, Internode, is offering a free churn procedure until June 30.
Internode has dropped its $39 ‘Fast Transfer’ fee for the next seven weeks to encourage customers who are dissatisfied with their current broadband provider to move to Internode. Customer churn is a term that describes telecom customers moving from one service provider to another.
Internode product manager, Jim Kellett, claims the ISP regularly scores highly in customer satisfaction levels in national surveys and remains one of the few large broadband companies to not charge for data uploads.
Earlier this week, Internode announced that it had slashed $5 a month across the range of its 8 megabit per second (Mb/s) ADSL broadband plans, now called ADSL Plus. It has also lowered the cost and extended the range of its Business plans.
“The free churn offer was a chance for unhappy broadband users to benefit from Internode’s revamped product range. “We now have a broader range of more affordable plans, so the free churn offer makes Internode even more attractive,†he said.
ASX-listed ISP iiNet is to buy fellow West Australian service provider Westnet for AU$81 million in cash.
The acquisition will bring iiNet closer, in subscriber terms, to Australia’s top two ISPs, boasting a total of 685,000 subscribers, 365,000 of which are on DSL. At last count, Telstra counts around 2.5 million Internet subscribers, while Optus counts close to one million.
Privately owned Westnet is currently the nation’s sixth largest ISP — employing 560 staff, with 180,000 Internet subscribers, 31,000 telephony customers and 11,000 Web hosting customers. Over half of its revenues are derived from the resale of wholesale ADSL broadband connections provisioned by Telstra and Optus. The company is expecting FY08 revenues of AU$133.6 million, a growth of 32 percent over FY07, and is expecting to post its first net profit after tax of AU$7 million after several years of minor losses.
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The state of broadband in Tasmania today suffered a setback as national ISP Internode suspended a range of its Internet services in protest to Telstra’s dominance in broadband backhaul capacity.
Effective today, the national ISP will suspend Tasmanian sales of its eight megabit per second (Mbps) and Extreme ADSL2+ HOME broadband plans until further notice.
Tasmanian customers with existing 8 Mbps and Extreme ADSL2+ HOME broadband plans will continue to be provided with Internet access uninterrupted.
In lieu of the cancelled plans, potential Tasmanian-based Internode customers will now have to choose HOME broadband plans running at standard ADSL speeds up to 1500/256kbps.
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Internet provider Internode is ensuring its customers have better access to Asia with a new Point of Presence (PoP) in Tokyo, Japan, which will provide users with a markedly faster and more secure connection to the region.
With the establishment of the new PoP, which was launched last week, Internode customers are experiencing better speed and performance with online resources in Asia.
“We have been going through Asia on the way to North America for a long time, but we’ve never stopped there,†said Internode national sales manager Daryl Knight. “We chose to break out in Japan because we wanted to improve the speed and latency of the service we provide to customers.â€
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National broadband IP carrier Internode is set to expand its Naked ADSL2+ offering by converting existing phone services to naked ADSL.
Naked ADSL2+ does not require a dial-tone enabled copper phone line, which means that customers can avoid paying for traditional line rental purely to support an Internet connection.
While a naked line does not support traditional telephony functionality such as faxes and security alarms, Internode hopes their product will appeal to customers in apartments and those who do not wish to take time off work to allow technicians to connect wiring in their homes.
Customers opting to go naked will still be able to make calls as Internode’s ADSL2+ broadband plan includes the NodePhone1 voice-over-broadband phone service.
Jim Kellet, Internode’s product manager, said that demand for the product far exceeded the company’s expectations when it was launched last month. “Our Naked ADSL2+ service is proving extremely popular, with more than 1000 signups since we launched a few weeks ago,†he said.
Naked ADSL2+ is currently available at 350 telephone exchanges across Australia with the conversion taking approximately three weeks. Kellet said that unfortunately for customers without a continuous copper path to the exchange or with a spectrum shared ADSL service rather than unbundled local loop, the naked service will be unavailable because of a lack of transition processes from Telstra.
