| Date | Title | Description |
| 04.09.2024 | Flytxt's New Sales Leader: A Strategic Move for Global Growth | In the fast-paced world of technology, change is the only constant. Flytxt, a trailblazer in AI-powered Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions, has made a significant move by appointing Vickram Nagi as Senior Vice President and Head of Glob... |
| 02.09.2024 | Flytxt Appoints Vickram Nagi as Senior Vice President and Head of Global Sales | DUBAI, UAE, Sept. 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Flytxt, a pioneer in AI-powered Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions that maximise customer lifetime value (CLTV) for subscription businesses, has announced the appointment of Vickram Nagi as Seni... |
| 02.09.2024 | Flytxt Appoints Vickram Nagi as Senior Vice President and Head of Global Sales | DUBAI, UAE, Sept. 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Flytxt, a pioneer in AI-powered Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions that maximise customer lifetime value (CLTV) for subscription businesses, has announced the appointment of Vickram Nagi as Seni... |
| 29.01.2020 | TPG suffers Australia-wide internet problems | Customers of TPG and its subsidiary brands suffered a two-hour outage of internet and voice services nationwide.
The problems started at around 12.30pm AEDT and were resolved at 2.30pm.
TPG said in a brief advisory that the “unplanned” outa... |
| 18.12.2019 | iiNet blames hardware fault for six-day email brown-out | iiNet has revealed that a hardware problem is behind the five-days-and-counting email brown-out experienced by customers of its Netspace sub-brand.
In an email to iTnews that ironically produced a “delivery delayed” error half an hour after... |
| 18.12.2019 | iiNet hit by five-day mail outage | Customers of iiNet’s sub-brand Netspace have had trouble accessing email for at least five days, and the ISP can’t say when normal service will be resumed.
iiNet’s brief incident report says almost nothing about the situation, other than th... |
| 02.05.2018 | iiNet suffers power loss at WA data centre | An iiNet data centre in Western Australia lost power this morning, causing service outages across the state.
The outage began at about 11.00am AEST with widespread reports of problems across the iiNet network, including to the state’s broad... |
| 01.03.2018 | NBN faces irrelevance in cities as competitors build faster, cheaper alternatives | By Allan Asher, Australian National University
Malcolm Turnbull is now connected to the National Broadband Network (NBN) at his Point Piper home on a 100 megabits per second (Mbps) plan, it was revealed in Senate Estimates this week. But on... |
| 08.12.2017 | Optus reveals actual NBN speed stats | Optus is the first large NBN retail service provider to start publishing actual download speeds experienced by a subset of users between 7pm and 11pm in line with a ‘best practice’ measure proposed by the ACCC.
A survey of NBN retailer site... |
| 29.08.2017 | Challenger ISPs scrap for tiny NBN market share | Australia’s top internet service providers continue to control 87 percent of the NBN market, but the number of challengers scrapping for what’s left has more than doubled in just one year.
Analysis by iTnews shows some minor movement in the... |
| 31.07.2017 | Consumers and SMEs left to monitor their own NBN broadband speeds | A simple broadband speed test from speedof.me. Source: Shutterstock/garagestock/Screenshot from http://speedof.me
By Thas Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, University of Melbourne
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has pledged t... |
| 02.05.2017 | Bogged 4WD behind 19-hour NT internet outage | Internet services in the Northern Territory are expected to be restored on Tuesday afternoon after a 19-hour outage caused by a bogged 4WD severing a transmission cable.
A spokesperson for Vocus – which owns the Nextgen transmission cable –... |
| 21.02.2017 | Is NBN Co’s chief executive right when he says Australians aren’t interested in ultra-fast broadband? | By David Glance, University of Western Australia
Whilst announcing NBN Co’s 2017 half year results, chief executive Bill Morrow stated that there was little market demand for faster broadband speeds than the 100 megabits per second (Mbps) b... |
| 15.02.2017 | Is NBN Co’s CEO right that Australians aren’t interested in ultra-fast broadband? | Whilst announcing NBN Co’s 2017 half year results, CEO Bill Morrow stated that there was little market demand for faster broadband speeds than the 100 Mbps being currently offered on the NBN.
Morrow made the remarks after being asked when I... |
| 20.05.2016 | NSW Police arrests juvenile over Telstra pit fire | A 12-year-old boy has been arrested by NSW Police for lighting a fire in a Telstra pit near Taree, sparking an outage that caused service disruptions for Telstra and iiNet customers over the past few days.
Emergency services were called to ... |
| 18.05.2016 | Customers aren’t buying fast broadband because that is not what they are being sold | - |
| 18.05.2016 | iiNet email, voice calls down throughout Australia | Customers of TPG-owned internet service provider iiNet have been unable to access email and voice calls since this morning following a nationwide disruption.
iiNet has acknowledged the webmail fault in a network status notification.
The fau... |
| 12.03.2016 | iiNet, Internode strike Telstra capacity deal for Tasmania | Tasmanian customers of iiNet and Internode are likely to see some relief from degraded internet services by Thursday 17th March after a breakthrough deal for Bass Strait capacity was signed late Saturday.
The TPG-owned ISPs broke more than ... |
| 11.03.2016 | iiNet customer anger boiling over Basslink | Customers of the iiNet group of ISPs in Tasmania have reacted angrily to a warning that they should expect degraded internet services for the next three months.
The iiNet group issued notifications to social media channels at close of busin... |
| 03.11.2015 | Perth to Singapore cable woes continue with new break | A new fault has been discovered in the Perth to Singapore leg of the South East Asia - Middle East - Western Europe (Sea-Me-We 3) cable, dashing hopes that the troubled fibre will be operational again this week.
The cable has suffered multi... |
| 30.10.2015 | New faults discovered on Perth - Singapore cable | Australian users are experiencing higher than usual latency and performance degradation for data traffic thanks to continuing problems with the Sea-Me-We 3 cable running between Perth and Singapore.
Sea-Me-We 3 was cut at segment 3.3 on Sep... |
| 02.10.2015 | Cut submarine cable cripples Apple services for Telstra customers | Telstra Apple users have been struggling with significantly slowed data speeds to and from Apple services for the majority of this week following a break in the SEA-ME-WE submarine cable.
The problems come just after the Australian release ... |
| 13.07.2015 | DDoS attack downs iiNet services | iiNet broadband customers in New South Wales had a rough ride over the weekend, facing long service interruptions as their internet provider struggled to mitigate against a large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
One iiNet repres... |
| 07.07.2015 | Hardware failure hits iiNet broadband, 3G data | An unspecified hardware failure created disruption for iiNet broadband customers in New South Wales and affected its 3G mobile data services nationwide throughout yesterday.
The fault started after midday AEST yesterday as iiNet customers w... |
| 06.07.2015 | iiNet is 'over the hump' of Netflix slowdowns | iiNet is now “over the hump” of the capacity issues it faced with the introduction of Netflix, with further network improvements to fix remaining issues to be rolled out over the next two months, according to chief technical officer Mark Di... |
| 22.06.2015 | Defences against Dallas Buyers Club ‘settle or face large fines’ letters | Lawyers for the Dallas Buyers Club LLC, were back in court last week as part of the continuation of their pursuit of Australians who they allege have downloaded the Dallas Buyers Club movie illegally. The proceedings concerned the letter th... |
| 20.05.2015 | Australian ISP Promises Free Lawyers For Targets Of Copyright Trolls | iiNet, the second biggest ISP in Australia, has been a bit of a magnet when it comes to BitTorrent lawsuits. In 2008 they were sued by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) for failing to prevent its subscribers from inf... |
| 20.05.2015 | Voltage Pictures Sued For Copyright Infringement | There are dozens of companies engaged in so-called “copyright trolling” worldwide, the majority connected with adult movie companies.
While most are generally dismissed as second-rate companies out to make a quick buck, U.S. producer Voltag... |
| 19.05.2015 | iiNet to offer free legal advice to DBC pirates | iiNet is planning to offer free legal advice to customers alleged to have shared infringing copies of Dallas Buyers Club online.
The internet service provider yesterday said it was working with an unnamed law firm that has offered to provid... |
| 19.05.2015 | Sacked SBS journo sues for discrimination; iiNet offers free legal representation to customers who downloaded Dallas Buyers Club: Midday Roundup | Scott McIntyre, the SBS journalist who was sacked for tweeting “highly inappropriate and disrespectful” comments about Anzac Day, has lodged a discrimination claim before the Fair Work Commission, according to News.com.au.
The claim alleges... |
| 19.05.2015 | THE NEWS WRAP: Automattic buys e-commerce platform WooCommerce for more than $US30 million | Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, has acquired e-commerce platform WooCommerce for more than $US30 million according to Re/code.
The acquisition follows the company’s $US160 million raise last year.
“If you do receive a lette... |
| 13.04.2015 | Dallas Buyers Club pirates could be told to 'name a price' | While much attention has been focused on how much the owners of Dallas Buyers Club might demand Australian pirates pay for sharing their film online, a new option has emerged: 'name your price'.
According to Channel News Asia, the first bat... |
| 31.03.2015 | The security paradox: individual privacy versus digital driftnets | The great irony of the Abbott government’s plan enforce the mandatory data retention legislation is that while this is being done to make us safer, in fact it creates new data security risks for us all.
While much of the debate has been dom... |
| 04.03.2015 | Netflix opposes data cap exemptions, except when it benefits from them | reader comments 132 with 88 posters participating
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| 04.03.2015 | Netflix's Love Of Net Neutrality Notably Absent In Australia, Where It's Striking Cap Exempt Deals With ISPs | Here in the States, Netflix has been an incredibly vocal supporter of net neutrality, arguing that all traffic should consistently be treated equally by incumbent ISP gatekeepers. The company has also frequently lambasted usage caps, arguin... |
| 25.02.2015 | Explainer: Australia’s ‘three strikes’ plan to curb illegal downloads | Following last week’s release of a draft “three strikes” scheme by Australian ISP and telecommunications industry body Communications Alliance, the issue of online copyright infringement is again up for debate.
The draft proposal was prepar... |
| 11.12.2014 | Forced negotiations and industry codes won’t stop illegal downloads | Attorney-General George Brandis and Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced yesterday that they expect internet service providers (ISPs) to work with copyright owners to help police infringement.
ISPs will have to agree to a new ... |
| 01.12.2014 | Perth to Singapore SEA-ME-WE-3 cable severed again | The SEA-ME-WE-3 cable linking Perth to Singapore was once again cut last night and will undergo repairs.
According to an iiNet fault notice, the cable was broken at 11.45 pm WST yesterday. The provider is advising that customers may experie... |
| 24.10.2014 | Australian ISP iiNet Takes A Stand Against Copyright Trolling By Producers Of Dallas Buyers Club | We’ve written a number of times about the strong, principled stand of Australian ISP iiNet for the rights of its consumers. iiNet was the ISP that was handpicked by Hollywood and the US State Departmenet to be the target of a “test” legal a... |
| 23.10.2014 | iiNet hit with lawsuit over Oscar-winning film Dallas Buyers Club | iiNet, Amnet, Dodo and Wideband have been hit by another round of litigation.
The internet service providers are going to be back in court, this time defending customers who allegedly pirated the 2013 Oscar-winning film Dallas Buyers Club.
... |
| 22.10.2014 | Australians Face ‘Fines’ For Downloading Pirate Movies | Much to the disappointment of owner Voltage Pictures, early January 2013 a restricted ‘DVD Screener’ copy of the hit movie Dallas Buyers Club leaked online. The movie was quickly downloaded by tens of thousands but barely a month later, Vol... |
| 22.07.2014 | iiNet tells Brandis it won’t stand for mandatory data retention | iiNet has taken a strong position against Attorney General, George Brandis who last week suggested that the government is actively considering a data retention regime, forcing internet service providers to retain customer data for up to two... |
| 22.07.2014 | Australian ISP iiNet Says It Will Fight Against Data Retention Rules | Last week, we wrote about some vague plans announced by Australia’s Attorney General George Brandis to require data retention rules for ISPs. “Data retention” is a euphemism for mass surveillance. It requires ISPs to hold onto a ton of data... |
| 10.06.2014 | Rise Up Against Govt Anti-Piracy Plans, ISP Urges | Last month Australia’s Attorney-General George Brandis labeled his citizens the worst pirates on the planet and vowed to help content holders turn that position around. But Brandis’ industry-leaning position soon became clear as he repeated... |
| 31.03.2014 | April Fools’ startup PR pranks: The good, the bad and the downright silly | April Fools’ Day is a rallying call for the PR industry, which has whipped out would-be ideas for their clients. Here’s our pick of the five almost-stories that stood out.
Kogan Drone Broadband Network takes flight
From the release: “[Found... |
| 17.12.2012 | ISP Walks Out of Piracy Talks: “We’re Not The Internet Police” | In many countries around the world the entertainment industries are attempting to engage Internet service providers in their battle against online piracy.
The music and movie industries have persuaded some to begin sending warning notificat... |
| 17.12.2012 | Aussie ISP: We Won't Be Hollywood's Copyright Cops If Hollywood Won't Fix Its Own Business Model | You may remember iiNet, the Australian ISP that Hollywood attacked (with support of US State Department officials) after they decided that it was too small to fight back, but big enough that people would notice. They guessed incorrectly, an... |
| 11.06.2012 | Australian ISP: Negotiating With Hollywood Over Copyright Is Like Talking To A Brick Wall | We just mentioned the charade happening down in Australia, where the entertainment industry, the government and some ISPs are meeting in total secrecy to try to hash out a “voluntary” plan to deal with online infringement. Of course, not on... |
| 07.06.2012 | Hollywood Has Ruined Relationship With ISP It Sued Over Piracy | In November 2008 and after three years of voluntary discussions that went nowhere, the Hollywood movie studios under the banner of the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) decided to would be a good business decision to sue... |
| 15.03.2011 | ISP Proposes Piracy Mitigation, Detection and Punishment Framework | The ongoing dispute over how best to handle the illegal file-sharing of music, movies and TV shows prompted the now famous AFACT v iiNet legal battle. In late February the Full Bench of the Federal Court in Australia dismissed the movie ind... |
| 13.12.2010 | The iiNet evangelist | You don’t get many firebrand preachers operating out of their mother’s garage. But then Michael Malone was never the standard entrepreneur.
The iiNet founder happily describes himself as an “evangelist” for the internet. In many ways, he ha... |
| 20.11.2008 | Movie Studios Sue ISP Over BitTorrent Piracy | iiNet, one of Australia’s largest ISPs with over 1,400 staff, was the first company in the country to offer DSL speeds over 1.5 Mbit/s to the regular consumer market, and now offers speeds of up to 24 Mbit/s. These relatively healthy speeds... |
