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Nokia, VHA team up on Australian 5G spectrum test deployment Nokia and Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) have jointly announced the first deployment of low-band NR700Mhz spectrum in a field test environment in a 5G network in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.
4th May 2020
Nokia, VHA team up on Australian 5G spectrum test deployment Nokia and Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) have jointly announced the first deployment of low-band NR700Mhz spectrum in a field test environment in a 5G network in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.
4th May 2020
Power loss, not fire damage caused bushfire mobile outages Mobile network outages during the 2019-20 bushfires were overwhelmingly due to loss of power rather than fire damage, according to a new report from telecommunications regulator the Australian Communications and Media Authority.
1st May 2020
NBN Co extends 40% added capacity offer for ISPs National Broadband Network operator NBN Co has extended its offer to provide up to 40% additional capacity to Internet providers, at no extra cost, for another two months - through the June and July billing periods - as part of its support for telecommunications retailers during the COVID 19 pandemic.
30th April 2020
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29th April 2020
COVIDSafe: AWS using Chinese-owned data centre in Sydney Questions have been raised over the fact that the American cloud provider Amazon Web Services, which was given a Federal Government contract to store data collected by the Government's COVIDSafe app, is using a data centre in Sydney which is fully owned by a Chinese company.
29th April 2020
NDIS users get access to assistive tech during self-isolation Participants in Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) will be able to purchase assistive technology to help them through the COVID 19 crisis and self-isolation.
28th April 2020
Govt opens 2nd round of Telecoms in New Developments policy The Australian Government has called for further submissions on its proposed policy update designed to improve the delivery of telecommunications in new developments.
27th April 2020
ACMA helps communications, media sectors maintain ‘critical services’ Telecommunications regulator the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) says it is actively working with the communications and media services sectors to help them maintain critical services while continuing to provide important consumer safeguards during the COVID-19 pandemic.
24th April 2020
ACMA announces relief from telco enforcement action during COVID-19 The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has announced that it will conditionally relax enforcement on telcos who do not comply with certain segments of the TCP Code during COVID-19 health crisis.
23rd April 2020