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Big screen challenge for Apple

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Original article by Paul Smith
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 23 : 1-Jul-14

Apple is under pressure to produce a larger smartphone to regain market share in Australia. Telsyte said that Google’s Android operating system holds 51 per cent of the local market of 16 million users, while Apple’s iOS holds 42 per cent. Apple will begin production of a larger "phablet" iPhone in August 2014. Telsyte MD Foad Fadaghi said that a larger model will probably allow Apple to regain lost market share

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NBN connections soar in a year

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Original article by Mitchell Bingemann
The Australian – Page: 2 : 1-Jul-14

Greg Adcock, COO of NBN Co, has issued new and promising data on its progress in rolling out the Australian Government’s national broadband network. The number of premises connected to the cabling infrastructure has risen from 27,250 to 106,000 during 2013-14, while that of actual users is also up from 1,870 to now about 16,000. NBN Co and the main contractor, Ericsson, have a target of 450,000 connections by mid-2015. However Ericsson, which is being paid $A1.1bn, had suffered a series of setbacks

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