News

• Telstra expands ADSL2+ services in Northern Territory

  Lajamanu, Yuendumuu, Kalkaringi and Pupanya residents in the Northern Territory have been upgraded by Telstra and the NT Government to ADSL2+ broadband.

• Outback Stores awards three-year tender to consolidate ICT requirements

  Outback Stores has selected Territory Technology Solutions (TTS) for a three-year tender to provide IT infrastructure, services and support across its 27 sites.

• One Laptop Per Child delivers 200 laptops to Territory kids in Yirrkala

  Non-profit organisation, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Australia, continues to roll out budget laptops to primary school children in the Northern Territory with 200 devices being delivered to the remote town of Yirrkala.

• NT Government invests $20m in fibre roll out

  The Northern Territory Government has signed Amcon (ASX:AMM) to extend its existing Darwin and Alice Springs fibre networks to provide data carriage services to the Territory’s agencies and schools.

• NT sends e-health messaging system live

  The implementation of national e-health standards has taken another step forward with Northern Territory health agencies launching a secure messaging delivery system to share information between different clinical software systems.

• NT utility to roll out $14.5m asset manageemnt system

  Power and Water Corporation, the Northern Territory's multi-utility provider, is to roll out a $14.5m asset management system.

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  Outback communities get $7m Internet access boost

  The Rudd government has announced it will spend $7 million over four years on improving public Internet access facilities in remote Indigenous communities.

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  OLPC boosts outback education with laptop deployment

  One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Australia, has launched the first deployments of laptops to primary school children in the Northern Territory and Western Australia.