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  <title>Oz Broadband Speed Test News Feed</title>
  <link>http://www.ozspeedtest.com</link>
  <description>Agregated broadband news from around Australia</description>
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      <title>Telstra unveils CAT4 4G wi-fi dongle combo</title>
      <link>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6436/telstra-unveils-cat4-4g-wi-fi-dongle-combo/</link>
      <comments>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/comments/6436/telstra-unveils-cat4-4g-wi-fi-dongle-combo/</comments>
      <description><![CDATA[Telstra has launched a new 4G dongle that doubles up as a wi-fi hotspot.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 14:18:44 +1000</pubDate>
      <source url="http://www.zdnet.com/au/telstra-unveils-cat4-4g-wi-fi-dongle-combo-7000015843/">ZDNet Australia</source>
      <guid>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6436/</guid>
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      <title>US ISP to rip out Huawei equipment</title>
      <link>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6435/us-isp-to-rip-out-huawei-equipment/</link>
      <comments>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/comments/6435/us-isp-to-rip-out-huawei-equipment/</comments>
      <description><![CDATA[Huawei&#039;s bad luck in the US continues, after wireless ISP Clearwire announced it will reduce the amount of equipment from the Chinese telco vendor it uses in its TDD-LTE network rollout due to national security concerns.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 10:48:34 +1000</pubDate>
      <source url="http://www.itnews.com.au/News/344390,us-isp-to-rip-out-huawei-equipment.aspx">iTnews Australia</source>
      <guid>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6435/</guid>
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      <title>Get it while you can &amp;ndash; kits to help small businesses benefit from the NBN</title>
      <link>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6434/get-it-while-you-can-kits-to-help-small-businesses-benefit-from-the-nbn/</link>
      <comments>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/comments/6434/get-it-while-you-can-kits-to-help-small-businesses-benefit-from-the-nbn/</comments>
      <description><![CDATA[The Minister Communications, Senator Stephen Conroy, has announced that the Government will provide $5 million to develop sector-specific &amp;amp;lsquo;Digital Business Kits&amp;amp;rsquo; to help small to medium sized enterprises take advantage of the National Broadband Network.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 10:07:35 +1000</pubDate>
      <source url="http://www.itwire.com/it-policy-news/govenrment-tech-policy/59989-get-it-while-you-can-&acirc;€“-kits-to-help-small-businesses-benefit-from-the-nbn">iTWire</source>
      <guid>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6434/</guid>
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      <title>Signs point to NBN construction ramp-up</title>
      <link>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6433/signs-point-to-nbn-construction-ramp-up/</link>
      <comments>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/comments/6433/signs-point-to-nbn-construction-ramp-up/</comments>
      <description><![CDATA[Figures released last week showed that NBN Co passed 22,100 brownfield premises with fibre in the first three months of 2013, but can the company make up the gap to meet its targets by the end of June?]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 15:30:26 +1000</pubDate>
      <source url="http://www.zdnet.com/au/signs-point-to-nbn-construction-ramp-up-7000015776/">ZDNet Australia</source>
      <guid>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6433/</guid>
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      <title>NBN subcontractor rips up pipes</title>
      <link>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6432/nbn-subcontractor-rips-up-pipes/</link>
      <comments>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/comments/6432/nbn-subcontractor-rips-up-pipes/</comments>
      <description><![CDATA[An furious NBN subcontractor has ripped equipment out of the ground over a pay dispute, tearing out pipes laid just six weeks ago in Adelaide.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 15:29:49 +1000</pubDate>
      <source url="http://www.itwire.com/it-policy-news/govenrment-tech-policy/59971-nbn-subcontractor-rips-up-pipes">iTWire</source>
      <guid>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6432/</guid>
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      <title>More NBN training hubs launched in Adelaide</title>
      <link>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6431/more-nbn-training-hubs-launched-in-adelaide/</link>
      <comments>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/comments/6431/more-nbn-training-hubs-launched-in-adelaide/</comments>
      <description><![CDATA[Seven new digital hubs which promote the benefits of the National Broadband Network (NBN) have been launched in Adelaide.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 15:28:48 +1000</pubDate>
      <source url="http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/462660/more_nbn_training_hubs_launched_adelaide/">Computerworld</source>
      <guid>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6431/</guid>
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      <title>Union to meet with Telstra as telecom job cuts pile up</title>
      <link>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6430/union-to-meet-with-telstra-as-telecom-job-cuts-pile-up/</link>
      <comments>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/comments/6430/union-to-meet-with-telstra-as-telecom-job-cuts-pile-up/</comments>
      <description><![CDATA[The Communications Workers Union, the communications branch of the Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU), plans to meet with Telstra on Tuesday to learn more about the telco&#039;s restructuring plans and what they mean for industry jobs, according to CWU national assistant secretary Ken Hardisty.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 13:19:10 +1000</pubDate>
      <source url="http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/462647/union_meet_telstra_telecom_job_cuts_pile_up/">Computerworld</source>
      <guid>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6430/</guid>
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      <title>Vodafone loses 216,000 more customers - this year so far</title>
      <link>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6429/vodafone-loses-216-000-more-customers-this-year-so-far/</link>
      <comments>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/comments/6429/vodafone-loses-216-000-more-customers-this-year-so-far/</comments>
      <description><![CDATA[Vodafone has announced its global annual results. Australia continues to be the worst performing country, with another 216,000 customers lost so far this year.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 08:31:10 +1000</pubDate>
      <source url="http://www.itwire.com/your-it-news/mobility/59958-vodafone-loses-216000-more-customers-this-year-so-far">iTWire</source>
      <guid>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6429/</guid>
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      <title>Telstra to 'restructure' landline jobs</title>
      <link>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6428/telstra-to-restructure-landline-jobs/</link>
      <comments>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/comments/6428/telstra-to-restructure-landline-jobs/</comments>
      <description><![CDATA[A memo from Telstra chief operations officer has told staff to expect job cuts in its fixed line operations, which continue to lose ground to mobile.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 08:29:31 +1000</pubDate>
      <source url="http://www.itwire.com/it-industry-news/listed-tech/59959-telstra-to-&acirc;€˜restructure&acirc;€™-landline-jobs">iTWire</source>
      <guid>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6428/</guid>
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      <title>iiNet open to Coalition NBN offers</title>
      <link>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6427/iinet-open-to-coalition-nbn-offers/</link>
      <comments>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/comments/6427/iinet-open-to-coalition-nbn-offers/</comments>
      <description><![CDATA[iiNet would be willing to sell more of its infrastructure, including its extensive fibre to the node network to a Coalition government, should the party win the September federal election.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 21:05:54 +1000</pubDate>
      <source url="http://www.zdnet.com/au/iinet-open-to-coalition-nbn-offers-7000015714/">ZDNet Australia</source>
      <guid>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6427/</guid>
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      <title>NBN Co buys $9 million worth of iiNet fibre</title>
      <link>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6426/nbn-co-buys-9-million-worth-of-iinet-fibre/</link>
      <comments>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/comments/6426/nbn-co-buys-9-million-worth-of-iinet-fibre/</comments>
      <description><![CDATA[NBN Co today bought iiNet&#039;s fibre-to-the-home network in the ACT for $9 million in cash, in a big expansion play for the NBN.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 21:05:05 +1000</pubDate>
      <source url="http://www.itwire.com/it-industry-news/deals/59954-nbn-co-buys-$9-million-worth-of-iinet-fibre">iTWire</source>
      <guid>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6426/</guid>
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      <title>NBN Co buys TransACT FTTP network in ACT</title>
      <link>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6425/nbn-co-buys-transact-fttp-network-in-act/</link>
      <comments>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/comments/6425/nbn-co-buys-transact-fttp-network-in-act/</comments>
      <description><![CDATA[NBN Co has bought TransACT/iiNet&#039;s fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) network in the ACT for about $9 million.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 21:00:26 +1000</pubDate>
      <source url="http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/462544/_nbn_co_buys_transact_fttp_network_act/">ARN</source>
      <guid>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6425/</guid>
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      <title>ACMA shops 'freephone' charge changes</title>
      <link>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6424/acma-shops-freephone-charge-changes/</link>
      <comments>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/comments/6424/acma-shops-freephone-charge-changes/</comments>
      <description><![CDATA[Australia&#039;s communications regulator is shopping a draft variation to its numbering plan that would make 18/1800 numbers free to call from mobile phones by January 2015.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 13:14:07 +1000</pubDate>
      <source url="http://www.itnews.com.au/News/344112,acma-shops-freephone-charge-changes.aspx">iTnews Australia</source>
      <guid>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6424/</guid>
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      <title>Google technology advocate sends NBN safety message</title>
      <link>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6423/google-technology-advocate-sends-nbn-safety-message/</link>
      <comments>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/comments/6423/google-technology-advocate-sends-nbn-safety-message/</comments>
      <description><![CDATA[Australian information security professionals need to step up and protect consumers against the many threats that will be enabled by the national broadband network, according to Google chief technology advocate Michael T. Jones.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 13:13:20 +1000</pubDate>
      <source url="http://www.itnews.com.au/News/344127,google-technology-advocate-sends-nbn-safety-message.aspx">iTnews Australia</source>
      <guid>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6423/</guid>
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      <title>Stop charging for privacy, ACCAN tells Telstra</title>
      <link>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6422/stop-charging-for-privacy-accan-tells-telstra/</link>
      <comments>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/comments/6422/stop-charging-for-privacy-accan-tells-telstra/</comments>
      <description><![CDATA[Consumer body ACCAN is calling on the Government to ban Telstra&#039;s $36 a year Silent Line fee, which landline customers have to pay to keep their phone number private.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 08:28:06 +1000</pubDate>
      <source url="http://www.itwire.com/it-policy-news/regulation/59940-stop-charging-for-privacy-accan-tells-telstra">iTWire</source>
      <guid>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6422/</guid>
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      <title>Vodafone still losing Australian customers</title>
      <link>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6421/vodafone-still-losing-australian-customers/</link>
      <comments>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/comments/6421/vodafone-still-losing-australian-customers/</comments>
      <description><![CDATA[Customers continue to desert Vodafone&#039;s Australian operation in droves according to the latest set of group financials from the global mobile giant.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 08:27:33 +1000</pubDate>
      <source url="http://www.itnews.com.au/News/344067,vodafone-still-losing-australian-customers.aspx">iTnews Australia</source>
      <guid>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6421/</guid>
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      <title>City Circle mobile coverage a 15-year project</title>
      <link>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6420/city-circle-mobile-coverage-a-15-year-project/</link>
      <comments>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/comments/6420/city-circle-mobile-coverage-a-15-year-project/</comments>
      <description><![CDATA[Optus says the project that brought mobile phone coverage into Sydney&#039;s train tunnels was 15 years in the making.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:35:53 +1000</pubDate>
      <source url="http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/462389/city_circle_mobile_coverage_15-year_project/">ARN</source>
      <guid>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6420/</guid>
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      <title>First NBN fibre extension completed</title>
      <link>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6419/first-nbn-fibre-extension-completed/</link>
      <comments>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/comments/6419/first-nbn-fibre-extension-completed/</comments>
      <description><![CDATA[A business in Tasmania was the first to take up NBN Co on its user-pays offer to extend fibre beyond the 93 percent footprint.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 14:10:11 +1000</pubDate>
      <source url="http://www.zdnet.com/au/first-nbn-fibre-extension-completed-7000015637/">ZDNet Australia</source>
      <guid>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6419/</guid>
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      <title>ACMA goes public with ISP malware statistics </title>
      <link>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6418/acma-goes-public-with-isp-malware-statistics/</link>
      <comments>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/comments/6418/acma-goes-public-with-isp-malware-statistics/</comments>
      <description><![CDATA[Although ISPs and network operators have had access to the rough figures of malware infections for some time, the Australian Communications and Media Authority has now begun publishing the statistics for the public.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 14:09:56 +1000</pubDate>
      <source url="http://www.zdnet.com/au/acma-goes-public-with-isp-malware-statistics-7000015645/">ZDNet Australia</source>
      <guid>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6418/</guid>
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      <title>'New world record' for wireless data</title>
      <link>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6417/new-world-record-for-wireless-data/</link>
      <comments>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/comments/6417/new-world-record-for-wireless-data/</comments>
      <description><![CDATA[A week after Samsung&#039;s supposed 5G breakthrough, German researchers have announced 40 Gbps wireless, comparable to speeds reached by fibre.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 14:09:34 +1000</pubDate>
      <source url="http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/technology/59920-&acirc;€˜new-world-record&acirc;€™-for-wireless-data">iTWire</source>
      <guid>http://www.ozspeedtest.com/news/6417/</guid>
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