IN just a two paragraph announcement yesterday, Telstra's hardball American chief executive, Sol Trujillo, torpedoed the $24 billion full privatisation of Telstra and any hope Australians would receive anything other than a second-rate broadband service for the foreseeable future.
MINISTER for the Illawarra and Regional Development David Campbell felt like cartoon character George Jetson this week when he gained first-hand experience of a system that could control an automated home or workplace from a PC and mobile phone.
AUSTRALIA'S telecommunications companies are stifling the economic benefits of mobile e-learning (m-learning). Dr Marcus Bowles, director of the Institute for Working Futures, says the incumbents are defending market share by confining mobile data transmissions to high-cost cellular networks.