Technology has come a long way over the decades – these days you can browse online, download a file, watch a music video and make a phone call all at the same time (and then some).

We’re lucky to live in an era when the development of new technology has never been so rapid, with a huge range of networking and entertainment devices available on the market. Today you can have your phone, messaging service, TV, music, emails and web browsing all in one handy device, but that wasn’t always the case. Let’s take a look at some pieces of “dead” tech that might not be the bee’s knees any more, but they did help pave the way for the stuff we have today. (more…)

For some time, Internode has been working away on a new technical approach to allow us to deliver the full fetchtv service to Internode customers using Fibre connections on the National Broadband Network (NBN) and also for Internode customers connected to Opticomm based FTTH (Fibre to the Home) network ports.

Well, we’ve done it – and it works :) (more…)

On 11th October 2011, I spoke at the CommsDay Melbourne Congress event about some of the competition related challenges that exist around the NBN.

These challenges focus in practice on actions that the ACCC should, in my view, be taking in order to safeguard and augment the Long Term Interests of End Users.

The presentation runs for about 21 minutes. (more…)