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The 2018 Charles Todd Medal has been awarded to Iñaki Berroeta, Chief Executive of Vodafone Hutchison Australia since 2014. The award recognizes Mr Berroeta’s achievements in radically improving the performance of this company, especially in its product offerings and its customer service, and for his active collaboration across the industry to deliver reforms of benefit to all telecommunications consumers.
29th November 2018
Sydney contactless payment trial extended to metro trains Commuters in Sydney will now be able to use their credit cards or mobile phones to tap on and off on metro train services, instead of using their Opal cards, after the contactless payments trial run by Transport for NSW and the Commonwealth Bank, Cubic and Mastercard was extended.
28th November 2018
Telstra fixed line services to be regulated until June 2024 The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has decided to extend the declaration of Telstra's six fixed-line telecommunications services until 30 June 2024.
27th November 2018
US lobbying allies to stop using Huawei equipment The American Government has ramped up its campaign against Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei Technologies, briefing officials in so-called "friendly countries" to try and get them to stop using equipment from the Chinese vendor.
24th November 2018
Dutton accuses Labor of dragging feet on encryption bill Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton says he wants the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security to deal with the government's encryption bill "as quickly as possible", and accused Shadow Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus of delaying things.
23rd November 2018
S&P sees aggressive 5G buildout in US, Asia-Pac in 2019 Credit ratings agency S&P Global Ratings is taking a cautious approach to 5G, saying its telecommunications ratings for 2019 do not fully incorporate 5G-specific costs or revenue assumptions.
22nd November 2018
House NBN panel asks Govt to change regional broadband levy The Australian Parliament's Joint Standing Committee into the NBN has recommended that the Government update the modelling of its proposed regional broadband levy, in order to reflect the cost increases since the original modelling in 2015.
21st November 2018
NBN Co ARPU still stuck as losses continue to mount The NBN Co, the company rolling out Australia's national broadband network, has made no progress on raising the average revenue per user, which remains stuck on $44, the same as that recorded for full-year 2018, even though other metrics have shown an increase.
20th November 2018
Telstra BGP routing error hits other Australian ISPs Australia's biggest telco Telstra took down part of the Internet in the country on Thursday morning due to a stuff-up with the routes it advertised through the border gateway protocol. The company claims a third party was responsible for the error.
17th November 2018
Government keeps TIO and touts further telco consumer protections The Australian Government has made recommendations to further protect telecommunications consumers, including a strengthening of role of the Telecommunications Ombudsman.
16th November 2018