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  • Android phones hit eBay Australia

    Online retailers have begun to flog HTC Google Android phones to Australian consumers, with the first copies having turned up on the Australian website of auction giant eBay site, although Australian telcos don't seem to have prepared for the imports.

  • Telecom NZ forced to 3G by Vodafone

    Telecom New Zealand was forced to make its $574 million investment in a 3G mobile network because Vodafone was eating its lunch according to Rod McGeoch, a director of the Kiwi telco.

  • Ericsson's Zikou to retire

    Network hardware supplier Ericsson has revealed its Australia and New Zealand chief Bill Zikou will retire after just over two years in the role.

  • Vodafone 3G upgrade delayed to 2009

    Vodafone Australia has blamed Swedish vendor Ericsson for delays to the roll-out of its national 3G mobile network.

  • BlackBerry Storms the touchscreen market

    Research in Motion has officially introduced the first touchscreen BlackBerry to the world: the RIM BlackBerry Storm.

  • Vodafone cuts price of wireless plans

    Just a day after Optus said that it was reducing the quotas of its prepaid wireless plans, Vodafone has announced it is rolling back prices on its post-paid mobile broadband plans.

  • Paranoid Android: Did they forget Oz?

    Dozens of phone calls and emails today made one thing clear: none of Australia's telcos or handset manufacturers have briefed their staff on when mobile phones running Google's Android system will be made available locally, if they are at all.

  • Unisys Australia nabs new MD from SAP

    Global IT services firm Unisys has formally replaced its local managing director Steve Parker, more than half a year after the executive quietly left the company to take the chief operating officer role at up and coming competitor Oakton.

  • Aussie telcos can't talk Android

    Australia's top four mobile carriers were unable today to say whether they had plans to locally sell phone handsets based on Google's Android operating system.

  • Telecom NZ heats up wholesale battle

    Competition in wholesale broadband in New Zealand is heating up with the launch of a new product from Telecom NZ, just a day after rival Vodafone announced a move into the market.

  • Telecom NZ remedies separation breach

    New Zealand's competition regulator today said that Telecom New Zealand had remedied a breach of its separation undertakings linked to the spread of higher broadband speeds.

  • Unwired loses favour with Exetel

    Local internet service provider Exetel today said it might stop reselling Unwired's pre-WiMax wireless broadband service as it inked a deal to provide 3G mobile broadband services through Optus.

  • Nokia-Siemens chief takes Big Air role

    Australian wireless player Big Air has appointed Paul Tyler, the local head of network hardware specialist Nokia Siemens Networks, to be its non-executive chairman.

  • Opera joins the Symbian Foundation

    The browser company Opera has signed up to the Symbian Foundation, a Nokia-led consortium that was set up in June to turn the Symbian mobile operating system into an open-source platform.

  • Vodafone takes Crazy John's stake

    Vodafone Australia has purchased independent phone retailer Crazy John's after reaching an agreement with the widow of the company's founder, John Ilhan.

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