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Telstra has announced a cull in its access network supplier contracts, trimming 100 contracts and 100 vendors to three -- Service Stream, Silcar and Visionstream -- with a view to saving AU$140 million over two years.
Telecommunication companies and IT vendors are expected to compete heavily for the same Managed Network Services (MNS) market in the future, according to an IDC report.
Telstra expects to reach 60-70 percent penetration among its customers by 2010 for high speed third-generation mobile services, chief executive Sol Trujillo has told the Mobile World Congress.
The booming security market is heading for a bloodbath with both vendors and analysts expecting the number of companies selling security applications to fall from more than 700 today to just a handful by the end of the decade.
It wasn't too long ago that vendors still made a lot of their money through equipment markups. Telcos were the same, with comfortable profit on ISDN, STD calls, calls to mobiles and other heavily used services padding out financial reports.
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Internode has no incentive to provide free access to its Wi-Fi networks for any reason at all, apart from genuine love, and maybe the joy of finding a new way to flip Telstra the bird.
Labor's policy of socialised broadband has certainly proved much harder than the party believed it would be back when it was in Opposition, but it is Telstra that stands to lose the most from the NBN - and that applies whether it loses the NBN contract or wins it.
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