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Felix Mobile is making a quiet but meaningful move in Australia's crowded telco market. While most carriers advertise unlimited data and then quietly throttle speeds down to around two megabits per second, Felix is now offering genuinely usable unlimited data at up to eighty megabits per second for just fifty Australian dollars a month. That's a real difference for anyone who actually lives on their phone.
Across the Pacific, French students are back in the streets. High school and university protesters turned out in force Thursday, two days after a major demonstration demanding more government funding for education. Paris has responded with a series of conciliatory gestures, but organizers are pushing for more, and the movement shows no sign of cooling down just yet.
And for fans of Australian rock, something mysterious is stirring. Powderfinger, the Brisbane five-piece who closed out their career in two thousand ten with a farewell tour that drew over two hundred thousand fans, may be coming back. A cryptic Instagram account appeared this week under the handle the return of the electric, and speculation is already running hot about what comes next.
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