(Telecompaper) Australian television network Seven Network plans to build a Wimax network in the city of Perth. Seven has established a new subsidiary called Vividwireless and appointed former executive director of marketing for Telstra's consumer business, Martin Mercer, as chief executive officer. Following a tender, the company has picked Huawei Technologies as its network equipment supplier, and has asked wireless broadband provider Unwired, another Seven group company, to build and operate the network. Vividwireless plans to begin offering services in March 2010. The company is launching in Perth because it is a rapidly growing market with strong economic fundamentals, as well as being a market currently under-served by broadband infrastructure. Vividwireless's local staff in Perth will provide call centre and other services to look after the local customer requirements.

JETSTAR plans to replace its entire fleet of airport computers with thin clients, buy netbooks and look at a bring-your-own laptop scheme.

THE federal government has launched its $15 million senior citizens internet education program.

(Telecompaper) Mexican operator Telmex has signed a partnership agreement with Cisco to market and deliver Cisco TelePresence technology and services across Latin America. The agreement combines Cisco's global network of TelePresence locations with Telmex's sales foot-print and MPLS regional network to enable the adoption and growth of telepresence technology among businesses and organizations in the Latin American region. Also as part of the deal, Telmex will launch public TelePresence service suites in Latin America. The new service is expected to enable companies of all sizes, as well as individuals, to use TelePresence to conduct meetings with colleagues, customers, suppliers, partners or even family and friends. The Intercompany Cisco TelePresence services suite allows calls directly from a Cisco TelePresence room on a customer network to a TelePresence room on a different company's network via a secure connection from the service provider. Using Telepresencia Administrada Telmex,

(Telecompaper) YouTube is in talks with leading film studios on introducing a movie rental service streamed from its site, people familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal. Rental fees could provide the loss-making company, which at present relies on advertising, with an important new revenue stream. YouTube is in discussions with Lions Gate Entertainment, Sony Pictures, MGM and Warner Brothers about introducing some of their new titles to the site, the paper's sources said. In some cases, these titles might be available on the site on the same day that they come out on DVD. Some titles may also be offered free with advertising. New movie rentals are expected to cost around USD 3.00, similar to Apple's iTunes store. A YouTube spokesman said the company is always working to expand on "its great relationships with movie studios and on the selection and types of videos we offer our community". According to the paper, YouTube is pressing studios to allow the movies to be stream

(Telecompaper) GSM infrastructure services provider Ip.access has signed a frame contract with European mobile operator group Tele2. The Ip.access nanoGSM system delivers extra coverage and bandwidth so that customers can use their mobile devices for 2G voice and data services indoors and in areas of high network traffic. The Ip.access nanoBTS picocell plugs into an existing IP broadband connection for improved quality of service. No details were released on when Tele2 is expected to offer the piceocells to customers.

(Telecompaper) Growth on the Dutch broadband market slowed in the second quarter but the number of new cable customers rose notably and took precedence over new DSL clients for the first time since Telecompaper began reporting on the Dutch broadband market in 2003. The Dutch broadband market grew 0.4 percent to reach 5.808 million at end-June, translating into a net addition of 20,500, three times less than in the previous quarter, Telecompaper's quarterly update on the Dutch broadband market revealed. Cable won 15,000 new customers compared to 5,500 new DSL clients. Broadband (cable & ADSL) penetration per household increased to 79.9 percent at the end of the quarter, up 2.8 percentage points compared to the year before. When including FTTH connections, broadband penetration per household reached 81.5 percent. For the full year, Telecompaper expects growth of around 4.5 percent for the entire broadband market including FTTH, leading to a household penetration of around 83 percent with

MILLIONS of Telstra customers awoke to a broadband blackout this morning after the telco¿s national internet network inexplicably went down.

WIDESPREAD attempts to shut down betting websites in Australia in recent weeks could be the work of criminal gangs seeking to extort money.

(Telecompaper) T-Mobile Germany has announced the new T-Mobile Pulse Android smartphone with direct access to the T-Mobile MyCommunity and Media Center services. It also provides direct links to popular internet services including Google, Google Mail and Google Maps. T-Mobile Germany will start selling the new phone in October from EUR 4.95 with the Combi Flat S tariff. This will be the third Android smartphone in the operator's portfolio. Made by Huawei, the Pulse will sell in a total eight European countries from October, for an unsubsidised price of EUR 250. The HSPA-enabled phone has a 3.2-megapixel camera, integrated GPS and 2 GB microSD memory card. The operator has also announced the launch of the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone from October. The device has a trackpad, special media buttons, complete keypad and camera with video function. It supports EDGE and WLAN and has Bluetooth and USB connectivity and will be available from EUR 4.95 on 24-month contracts with selected plan