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| Communication The Key | 25 Aug 2008 |
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| "Rebecca Razzano estimates Skype has saved her hundreds of dollars in international calls over the past four years. The 33-year-old from Prospect said two of her best friends reloacted to London and Italy in 2004 and Skype had allowed the three to keep in contact at no cost. "Anytime that any one of us is online we can see if the others are there and we just dial in and have a chat," the national solutions manager for Adam Internet said. Ms Razzano has Skype on both her work and home laptops, which have built-in cameras and microphones. Her girlfriend in Italy recently had a baby and video calls through Skype meant she could see the new arrival regularly. "It has saved me hundreds of dollars - especially when you're making extra calls because someone's had a baby," she said." Communication the Key (3.2MB PDF) | |
| Telstra taken out of equation | 06 Aug 2008 |
| 'Hats off to whoever it was who came up with the name "Naked DSL". Sure beats Unconditional Local Loop (ULL) broadband service, doesn't it? The folkd at Adam Internet have been marketing Naked DSL heavily lately - perhaps you've noticed the TV ad with the portly subscriber. Adam tells me it went ahead with rolling out its Naked DSL service despite long delays in determining pricing. The delay was caused by Telstra and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission undertaking a protracted review process that forced many ISPs, Adam among them, to just go ahead and roll it out. "We believed that Adam Internet's customers should be given the opportunity to decide about the quality of their telecommunications suppliers based upon the suitability of our products and the quality of the service we provide, rather than on price alone," says Adam Internet's managing director, Scott Hicks. ...' Telstra taken out of equation (198.0K PDF) | |
| Business attacks 'new' broadband speed: BROADBLAND | 29 Jul 2008 |
| 'The broadband network planned by the Federal Government will not be good enough for Australia's needs from the day it is built, industry leaders say. The download speeds of the network will be no better than is available to many consumers now and will be far behind what is already available in competitor countries such as Japan, South Korea and Europe. "I'm incredibly concerned that the Government's got blinkers on and is not being foresightful and doing what Hong Kong are doing, putting in a fibre-to-the-home, a fibre-to-the-premises network," said the managing director of Adam Internet, Scott Hicks. Consuers will not be able to use broadband for high definition digital television - which will be introduced next year - nor for other services such as quality video-conferencing. Mr. Hicks's views were backed by leading digital media industry figures in a round table discussion published in The Advertiser's SA Business Journal today. Decent access to a high-speed network was "critical from the competitive point of view" for business, said the managing director of Via Media, Anthony Coles. ...'Business attacks 'new' broadband speed: BROADBLAND (475.0K PDF) | |