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Huawei, ZTE to be excluded from Australia’s 5G network Chinese telecommunications equipment providers Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corporation have both been blocked from participating in the rollout of 5G networks in Australia.
23rd August 2018
Optus to cut another 600 jobs over next two months Following in the footsteps of its larger competitor Telstra, Singtel Optus will sack 600 workers over the next two months in what it says is a bid to reduce the number involved in back-office work.
22nd August 2018
Smaller NBN RSPs may be in trouble after October: claim Smaller retail service providers who are selling NBN connections may be forced out of business after October this year when the bundles sold by NBN Co more or less become the single way that RSPs buy bandwidth from the company, Damian Ivereigh, chief executive of the small Tasmanian ISP Launtel, claims.
21st August 2018
Australians show a preference for texting over phonecalls Text messaging rather than talking over the phone is now preferred by many Australians, according to a new survey which found that 56% of Aussie adults avoid making phone calls, turning instead to messaging apps or even email.
20th August 2018
NBN Co forced to back down on charging rural users more Under pressure from the Federal Government, the NBN Co, the company rolling out Australia's national broadband network, has backed down on a decision to charge rural and regional users $20 more for their fixed wireless 50/20Mbps plans.
17th August 2018
NBN Co records $4.1b loss for full-year 2018 NBN Co has recorded a loss of $4.1 billion for the full-year 2018, according to results announced on Thursday. This is less than the loss of $4.24 billion for the full-year 2017, but much more than the $2.75 billion loss the company posted for the full-year 2016.
16th August 2018
Australia's decryption delves into the 'Dangers of Backdoor' VPN provider NordVPN is warning Australians about the dangers of Australia's Federal Government releasing "a legislative proposal to give law enforcement agencies new rights to access personal user communications and data".
15th August 2018
Australia's decryption delves into the 'Dangers of Backdoor' VPN provider NordVPN is warning Australians about the dangers of Australia's Federal Government releasing "a legislative proposal to give law enforcement agencies new rights to access personal user communications and data".
15th August 2018
UK, Canada lobbying Australia not to exclude Huawei The UK and Canada are understood to be lobbying Australia not to ban Chinese telecommunications equipment firm Huawei from playing a role in building 5G networks Down Under, CommsWire has learnt.
14th August 2018
ACCC reports third of NBN users now on 'higher speed plans' Residential broadband customers "continue to shift to higher speed NBN plans, with more than one third of all NBN services now on 50Mbps plans, according to the ACCC’s tenth quarterly Wholesale Market Indicators Report released today".
13th August 2018