Telstra mobile reseller ISPOne is embroiled in another legal dispute, this
time with Telstra itself, over claims that the company has not paid its bills.
Telstra is threatening to disconnect prepaid mobile services.
ISPOne, which acts as a wholesale intermediary between Telstra and other
resellers such as Kogan Mobile and Aldi Mobile, has filed an urgent application
in the Federal Court to seek to stop Telstra from terminating the supply of
prepaid mobile services to the 280,000 customers that have active services
through one of ISPOne's customers.
ISPOne has claimed that Telstra has sought to terminate the services due to
a failure to pay invoices, but ISPOne has said that no money is due, because
Telstra is calculating the amount owed based on incorrect pricing of data for
prepaid mobile services.
ISPOne is claiming that Telstra is now in breach of its agreement with
ISPOne, and that it is entitled to damages because of problems with the
wholesale service that Telstra offered, over which ISPOne said it saw a delay in
mobile numbers porting to Telstra.
Telstra said it has yet to change its arrangements with ISPOne.
"ISPOne is a customer of Telstra Wholesale. We have met all our contractual
obligations to them. We can't comment on matters before the court, other than to
say we will exercise all our legal rights in this case. We have not made any
changes to the arrangements with ISPOne at this time," a Telstra spokesperson
said.
Following a hearing in the Federal Court in Victoria this afternoon, the
Telstra spokesperson said that the matter would be decided in the next 24 hours,
with ISPOne to pay into court AU$300,000.
"As the court has heard we are a creditor of ISPOne. Over a period of
several months we have given them every opportunity to develop a repayment plan
for their debt but to date we have been unable to reach a satisfactory
agreement," the spokesperson said.
"We will continue to defend the claims raised by ISPOne at tomorrow's
hearing."
Telstra said it had a contingency plan in place to limit the impact on the
customers using services through one of ISPOne's customers.
The court case against Telstra is the latest in the ongoing problems for
ISPOne in providing Telstra 3G wholesale services. In May, ISPOne was ordered to
pay Kogan Mobile damages for suspending over 700 Kogan Mobile customers who were
flagged by the company to be using too much data.
2013年8月12日星期一
You could possibly make a case that Microsoft must have pursued
It really is no secret that Surface RT and Windows RT, along with Windows
RT on other platforms, did not do also as Microsoft hoped. The newest collateral
harm in that failure was Nvidia's Tegra processors, which run inside the Surface
RT.
Surface/Windows RT had no shortage of skeptics even when it launched, but it is doable things could transform more than time. I am not saying that this *will* take place, but that there's a reasonable scenario for it. Here's how it operates.
Initially, some Microsoft company plan forensics: Microsoft wants developers to write apps for the new, Modern UI (a.k.a. Metro). Releasing Windows eight only for Intel architecture, they ought to have believed, would have made it also simple for developers to bypass Metro due to the fact conventional Windows programs would already run on it (and on Windows 7 along with other versions). But if Surface RT were a results, developers would want to be on it, and would pick to write Metro apps as a way to be on each platforms.
Effectively, that did not work. The truth is, color me shocked at the degree of reticence of developers to create Metro apps, because the sheer quantity of users who can run them will undoubtedly be very huge, even if it is small adequate to become considered a failure for Microsoft. Recall, any other firm in the world would like to have a disaster like Windows Vista, a huge selection of millions of copies of which have been sold. Such could be the worst you may count on from Windows eight.
This vacation season you could expect to determine touch-enabled Windows systems heavily promoted and Microsoft will attempt other promotions to have individuals purchasing apps from the shop. The truth is, the failure to have developers writing apps for the shop may be the single most significant difficulty they have. With very good apps customers will undoubtedly come, and with users excellent apps will come.
And if the apps do come, then the decision to purchase an RT device could develop into considerably far more affordable. There requirements to be a expense benefit compared to x86 since the RT will nevertheless be much less capable, or it will must demonstrate far much better battery life or anything to offer people today a reason to get it, as opposed to an Intel-based method.
Based on the performance and power consumption of the most current chips from NVidia and Intel, all of this is probable. It is also possible that Intel will narrow the price and efficiency consumption gaps, and RT will drop all its raison d'etre.
But if, come holiday time or later, the Windows app choice is respectable and RT systems are less high-priced than Intel-based ones, it may be completely affordable to get a single. If they get inexpensive sufficient, persons may well get casual about obtaining them.
My money's against it, nevertheless it could take place. There have been attempts previously to put Windows on other architectures, however they have all failed since the Intel has generally improved their chip overall performance adequate to produce the cost of incompatibility as well higher relative to the advantages.
You could possibly make a case that Microsoft must have pursued it this way to start with: x86 initially, other architectures after the app industry was solidly established. It appears like which will be the Strategy B for Microsoft and NVidia, and maybe it was built-in from the starting.
Surface/Windows RT had no shortage of skeptics even when it launched, but it is doable things could transform more than time. I am not saying that this *will* take place, but that there's a reasonable scenario for it. Here's how it operates.
Initially, some Microsoft company plan forensics: Microsoft wants developers to write apps for the new, Modern UI (a.k.a. Metro). Releasing Windows eight only for Intel architecture, they ought to have believed, would have made it also simple for developers to bypass Metro due to the fact conventional Windows programs would already run on it (and on Windows 7 along with other versions). But if Surface RT were a results, developers would want to be on it, and would pick to write Metro apps as a way to be on each platforms.
Effectively, that did not work. The truth is, color me shocked at the degree of reticence of developers to create Metro apps, because the sheer quantity of users who can run them will undoubtedly be very huge, even if it is small adequate to become considered a failure for Microsoft. Recall, any other firm in the world would like to have a disaster like Windows Vista, a huge selection of millions of copies of which have been sold. Such could be the worst you may count on from Windows eight.
This vacation season you could expect to determine touch-enabled Windows systems heavily promoted and Microsoft will attempt other promotions to have individuals purchasing apps from the shop. The truth is, the failure to have developers writing apps for the shop may be the single most significant difficulty they have. With very good apps customers will undoubtedly come, and with users excellent apps will come.
And if the apps do come, then the decision to purchase an RT device could develop into considerably far more affordable. There requirements to be a expense benefit compared to x86 since the RT will nevertheless be much less capable, or it will must demonstrate far much better battery life or anything to offer people today a reason to get it, as opposed to an Intel-based method.
Based on the performance and power consumption of the most current chips from NVidia and Intel, all of this is probable. It is also possible that Intel will narrow the price and efficiency consumption gaps, and RT will drop all its raison d'etre.
But if, come holiday time or later, the Windows app choice is respectable and RT systems are less high-priced than Intel-based ones, it may be completely affordable to get a single. If they get inexpensive sufficient, persons may well get casual about obtaining them.
My money's against it, nevertheless it could take place. There have been attempts previously to put Windows on other architectures, however they have all failed since the Intel has generally improved their chip overall performance adequate to produce the cost of incompatibility as well higher relative to the advantages.
You could possibly make a case that Microsoft must have pursued it this way to start with: x86 initially, other architectures after the app industry was solidly established. It appears like which will be the Strategy B for Microsoft and NVidia, and maybe it was built-in from the starting.
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