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Telstra sacks four top officials in management shake-up Telstra has sacked four senior officials in a management shake-up, with chief financial officer Warwick Bray, technology lead Stephen Elop, wholesale chief Will Irving and media unit chief Joe Pollard all given pink slips.
30th July 2018
Labor seeks ANAO audit of NBN Co corporate plan The Australian Labor Party has written to the Australian National Audit Office seeking an independent assessment of key assumptions underlying the medium- and long-term financial projections of the NBN Co.
27th July 2018
Vodafone flies high with Qantas pilot flight plans solution Vodafone has created what it says is a "one-of-a-kind" roaming solution which will allow pilots with Australia’s national and international airline carrier, Qantas, to do away with filling out paperwork or relying on Wi-Fi to complete their pre and post flight checks.
26th July 2018
S&P report says 'damaging' write down of NBN inevitable Australia's national broadband network, the NBN, will not return a profit on the billions invested in the project and will suffer a ‘damaging’ write down, a new report from credit ratings agency Standard & Poors says.
25th July 2018
Telstra union says Telstra customer service to get 'horrendous as jobs axed' The union representing Telstra workers says "Telstra’s already poor customer satisfaction levels will go from bad to horrendous if the telco pushes ahead with its plans to axe 8000 jobs".
24th July 2018
Telstra, Optus get low ranking on consumer customer service scorecard Australia’s two biggest telcos — Telstra and Optus — fared poorly in a survey of Australian telecommunications consumers who say they are unimpressed by the amount of time they spend getting a resolution to a telco issue.
23rd July 2018
Australia 8th in mobile speeds, but 54th in fixed broadband Australia has enviable mobile download speeds, averaging out at 50.53Mbps and sitting eighth in a list of 124 countries compiled by Ookla, the company that provides the online Speedtest application for testing download and upload speeds.
19th July 2018
MyRepublic launches new broadband plans for Australian small businesses NBN-loving ISP MyRepublic has finally launched plans specifically for small businesses in Australia, marking the company's expansion beyond consumer NBN plans since launching in November 2016.
18th July 2018
NSW Govt touts digital smart procurement benefits with telcos The NSW Government says its agencies are "benefitting from three new innovative telecommunications and digital deals which take advantage of the collective buying power to better connect with the people of New South Wales".
17th July 2018
Telstra makes first 'end-to-end' 5G data call on 3.5Ghz spectrum The first "end-to-end multi-vendor non-standalone (NSA) 3GPP 5G commercial network data call over licensed 3.5GHz spectrum" has been made at Telstra 5G Innovation Centre on Australia's Gold Coast, billed as the first "true" 5G call in a real world environment.
16th July 2018