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• Broadband infrastructure: Time for real policy

  I'm late filing this column. Why? It's my AT&T U-Verse DSL connection again. Make that "yet again." I've been struggling with it all day.

• Motorola's NVG510 DSL modem... not very good

  A few weeks ago here in the above ground portions of the Gibbs Universal Industries Secret Underground Bunker we got hooked on the British series "Downton Abbey".

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  OPEL would be serving bush broadband today: Turnbull

  Federal opposition communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull has used his National Press Club address to argue the decision to scrap the Howard government’s OPEL network for an NBN has denied the bush broadband services over the past three years.

• Regional Australians to receive faster Nextep DSLAM network speeds

  Enhancements to NEC’s wholesale Nextep regional digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM) and multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) networks mean subscribers in 62 regional areas across Australia will gain access to speeds of up to 20 megabits per second on its assymetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) service.

• What are you saying: Telstra and VHA split, Dodo CEO calls for unlimited, Australian broadband speeds

  Every week, Computerworld Australia collates all the things our readers have been saying about the news, both in the forums and in comments.

• Exetel's Linton flags business revamp, new mobile plans

  Exetel's chief executive, John Linton, has flagged major changes, including dropping Vodafone's retail mobile plans in favour of Optus, aimed at increasing the competitiveness of the internet service provider (ISP).

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  Primus announces 1.1TB plan in response to iiNet offering

  It has taken less than 24 hours for Primus Telecom to rise to the challenge issued by iiNet yesterday when the latter internet service provider unveiled the local market's first one terabyte (TB) capped plan.

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  Professor Rod Tucker on access technologies in the broadband policies

  What are the key differences between the broadband access technologies being offered by the major political parties and what impact will the choice of technology have on the potential for future upgrades? To answer this question, it useful to divide the main competing access technologies into two main classes: Shared and dedicated.

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  iiNet announces Bonded DSL

  Internet Service Provider (ISP), iiNet (ASX:IIN) has announced it will offer bonded ADSL services for the first time, to provide businesses without fibre connections with a faster ADSL service.

• Internode revamps business ADSL plans

  Internet Search Provider (ISP), Internode, has announced reworked business ADSL broadband plans, claiming a combination of increased data quotas and reduced prices.

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  ABS: Over 500,000 net users get 24Mbps

  More than 60 per cent of all Internet connections are now at or above 1.5Mbps according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

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  NBN Co must not become ‘pork barreling bureaucracy’

  News that the CEO of the Federal Government’s National Broadband Network company, Mike Quigley, will pocket upwards of $2 million per year has raised questions whether the cost of running the company may reduce the deployment of broadband services across Australia.

• Adelaide to get $3m WiMax network

  A joint state and federal government project with ISP Adam Internet will see metropolitan Adelaide get a WiMax wireless broadband network to cover the city’s blackspot areas that cannot get ADSL2+.

• Internode spends $10m on 57 exchange broadband expansion

  ISP Internode has announced a $10 million network expansion plan that will nearly double the capacity of its ADSL2+ broadband coverage over the next 12 months.

• Worldwide broadband prices continue to drop

  Broadband subscribers all over the world are getting more for their money. The cost for cable, fiber and DSL (digital subscriber line) subscriptions are all dropping, and at the same time speeds are increasing, according to market research company Point Topic.