Telecoms & Broadband Business Newsletter - May 2008

Publication Overview

Executive Summary

Table of Contents

• 1. EDITORIAL
  • 1.1 Launch of Smart Grid Australia
• 2. STRATEGIES
  • 2.1 OPEL Analysis – Minister raises the bar for himself
  • 2.2 The future of WiMAX
  • 2.3 What next for New Zealand?
• 3. TELECOMMUNICATIONS
  • 3.1 National backbone needs to increase one hundredfold
  • 3.2 Oceania Telecoms Summit in Sydney
  • 3.3 Slow delivery on convergence benefits from the operators
  • 3.4 Incumbents dominate the 700MHz auction but open network conditions offer competitors hope
• 4. Wireless markets
  • 4.1 Mobile data card market quadrupling
  • 4.2 The emerging Mobile Media industry
  • 4.3 WiMAX Conference notes
• 5. BROADBAND
  • 5.1 FttH Workgroup recommendations to Expert Panel
  • 5.2 Low-hanging FttH fruit
  • 5.3 Telstra delays in FttH
  • 5.4 Tassie missing out again
  • 5.5 Access to Next Generation Broadband
  • 5.6 No future in HFC cable broadband
  • 5.7 Leaders in old and new broadband
• 6. Digital media
  • 6.1 FttH Applications Workgroup
  • 6.2 Are we backing the wrong horse with HD?
  • 6.3 ABC’s Internet TV service
  • 6.4 Home networking developments 2008
• 7. CONTENT AND SERVICES
  • 7.1 Now is the time to grab those e-health opportunities
  • 7.2 Telstra and e-health
  • 7.3 AT&T Connect
  • 7.4 Free online info – with adds
  • 7.5 Dumbing-down opens up new opportunities
  • 7.6 E-Government, E-Health, Energy and Tele-education
  • 7.7 Economic issues driving unified communications
• 8. BRIEFS
  • 8.1 Telstra moves into VoIP