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  • Vodafone targets SME, SOHO markets

    Vodafone Australia has set its sights on the small-office home-office (SOHO) and small to medium enterprise (SME) market with the release of its new mobile business bundles.

  • Australia's IT market all grown up: Ericsson

    The Australian IT market has been dubbed "technologically mature" by Ericsson's consumer laboratory (ConsumerLab), following the release of the company's survey on the nations use and expectations from IT and telecommunications in the future.

  • Vodafone Aust bets on pre-paid offers

    Australia's number three telecommunications player, Vodafone, is placing its faith in pre-paid mobile offers -- giving customers the option of a set number of free text messages or discounted call rates -- to boost its consumer business.

  • Optus, Telstra told not to fight for Hutchison's towers

    A Victorian Supreme Court has ordered Telstra and Optus not to interfer in a legal stoush which broke out after Hutchison built a 3G antenna on a residential tower controlled by the state's Director of Housing.

  • Ringing in a new telecoms era

    Five years after competition was introduced into the Australian telecommunications sector, ZDNet Australia talks to the major players about the harsh realities of the new telecoms world.

  • Australia to have a class system for mobile calls?

    Important decision makers and emergency workers may have first dibs for mobile service in the future, with the government looking into introducing a priority call system across multiple operators.

  • Australia lags region in mobile subscriptions

    Australia lagged behind the rest of the Asia Pacific region in mobile phone subscriptions last year, according to new figures released by Gartner Dataquest.

  • Panasonic's new ToughBook range: Photos

    Panasonic unveiled its new ToughBook range in central Australia this week. This photo gallery gives you a close look at the new range, including the first Intel Atom-based ToughBook.

  • Vodafone Australia claims iPhone coup

    Vodafone Australia has announced that it will be selling the iPhone in Australia later this year.

  • Optus 3G iPhone pricing announced

    Optus will sell Apple's 8GB 3G iPhone for the outright price of AU$729 and AU$849 for the 16GB model, when purchased with Optus prepaid SIM cards.

  • 3G iPhone: On its way to Aussie SMEs

    Despite the introduction of a range of enterprise-friendly features, don't expect the 3G iPhone to be welcomed with open arms in your office unless you're a SME.

  • Australia slides into surveillance society

    According to a new international privacy report, governments around the world are increasingly invading the privacy of citizens with surveillance, identification systems and archiving of private data -- and Australia is no exception.

  • Australia still a pay zone for mobile content

    Ad supported television, music and videos seem unlikely to make their way to Australian mobiles, since the user numbers just aren't there yet, and the paid content market is too lucrative.

  • Surveys contradict on Aust IT infrastructure

    An American survey has ranked Australia's IT infrastructure as amongst the best in the world, in stark contrast to a recent OECD study that labelled Australian broadband, a key component of IT infrastructure, as one of the slowest and most expensive systems in the world.

  • Aussies prefer robots to call centres

    Australians would rather deal with a decent speech recognition system than an offshore call centre agent, typically based in India or Asia.

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