by Tony Poulos | Sep 9, 2010 | Blog
For those of you wondering about the outcome of the Australian election and the fate of my bold proclamation that the national Broadband Network policy would be the decider, the story goes like this. The final three Independents, Messrs. Katter, Windsor and Oakeshott,... by Tony Poulos | Sep 8, 2010 | Blog
First it was the connected customer, the connected home and now the connected car – how much more connected can we be? In fact, most of us are so used to being connected that if we are not for any amount of time and for any reason we start to get a little... by Tony Poulos | Sep 7, 2010 | Blog
When Roman children were being taught to read and write they were given a piece of slate and some chalk as their main educational tools, a practice that still carried on well into the 19th century. Before the release of Apple’s now ubiquitous iPad the technology... by Tony Poulos | Sep 3, 2010 | Blog
So, you’ve heard me bleating about governments interfering with the telecommunications industry once too often, right? Well, in what may a world first, that very same industry may be instrumental in bringing down a government! You will be forgiven for perhaps not... by Tony Poulos | Sep 2, 2010 | Blog
1 on the telecommunications industry. I mentioned in a recent blog that governments and the regulators they control seem to be living in a past age when all telecommunications companies were government owned monopolies. Yes, we all know those old arguments about... by Tony Poulos | Sep 2, 2010 | Blog
Australian CSP, Telstra, incurred as much as AU$90 million (US$80 million) in bad debts in its past financial year, caused largely by customers that disputed and didn’t pay expensive bills. Chief financial officer John Stanhope told an analyst meeting in Sydney...