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  • Aussie Telcos still waiting on Apple for iPad details

    Despite the impending local release of the WiFi iPad this month, and the 3G equipped version in April, Australia’s two biggest telcos are seemingly no closer to striking a deal with Apple to carry the new device.

  • Routing fault pushes NZ ISPs out of Limelight

    A traffic routing fault with backbone provider Optus has seen large New Zealand providers and their customers unable to reach popular content delivery network (CDN) Limelight.
    Limelight is used by popular game services such as Valve and Steam, as well as Microsoft’s Xbox Live. Social media sites such as LiveJournal also use Limelight.
    According to a message sent out by ISP Slingshot’s support staff, the affected providers in New Zealand include itself, Telecom and Orcon. The fault prevented access to Limelight for around four days.
    Orcon spokesman Duncan Blair confirmed the problem, saying the issue was with access to the Limelight CDN from the provider. As of going to press, Orcon had no estimate for when the issue would be sorted out.
    Blair says that Orcon has put in a temporary workaround for the problem that gives access to Limelight content for customers, provided the ISP’s name servers are used.
    Alternatively, Blair says people can use Google’s name servers as a temporary measure. By doing so, users will connect to Limelight’s servers in the United States and not Australia and New Zealand, thus bypassing the routing fault.
    Content Delivery Networks such as Limelight and Akamai are used by popular Internet sites to improve performance as well as to reduce traffic congestion by serving up content from servers geographically close to users.
    Optus was contacted by Computerworld for comment, but didn’t respond.

  • Publisher drops Telstra over NZ caller ID

    In a strange case of how something simple can result in a big IT contract change, a local enterprise has switched from Telstra to Optus because of Telstra's refusal to support caller ID for international originating calls.

  • EDS wins Aussie bank deal worth $689 million

    As part of its new multi-sourcing strategy, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia has signed a five-year information technology and telecommunications master agreement with EDS, valued at A$573 million (NZ$689 million). At the same time, Gen-i has lost some of the niche contracts it had with the bank, including managed mobile voice services, which have gone to Optus.

  • Regulatory uncertainty is costing us, says Telstra

    Changing the regulatory framework of the telecommunications industry is needed quickly, says Telstra which claims the regulatory uncertainty is costing it the deployment of its next-generation networks, while at the same time providing a leg up for its competitors.

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