New rules on telco customer service commitments proposed by ACMA Telcos offering fixed broadband services will be required to publish their customer service commitments and details of their associated performance under new industry rules being proposed byAustralia’s telecommunications regulator, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).

10th November 2020

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NBN Co trumpets boost to Q1 revenue, earnings NBN Co is trumpeting earnings growth, recording quarterly EBITDA of $102 million in the three months ending September 2020, compared to a loss of $435 million in Q1 FY2020 - and with total revenue of $1.07 billion for three months, up 22% on the corresponding quarter last year.

9th November 2020

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Fletcher says 2021 will be year of 5G in Australia Communications Minister Paul Fletcher says next year will be the year of 5G in Australia as the Federal Government has scheduled allocations of both high-band and low-band spectrum for use by 5G services.

6th November 2020

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NBN Co behaving like Telstra did as monopoly: Budde The situation with the national broadband network at the present moment is similar to the time when Telstra was a monopoly and dictated terms to the rest of the market, well-known telecommunications analyst Paul Budde claims.

4th November 2020

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5G base stations will be the game changer not smartphones There have been a couple of interesting reports out of China and the financial market place that point to one simple but inescapable conclusion, China is connecting its people to 5G networks at lightning pace because it is building 5G base stations at breakneck speed.

2nd November 2020

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Telstra announces plans for expansion into Canada, Eh? Oh, Canada! Australia's top telco is launching a dedicated Toronto Point-of-Presence to support increasing demand for connectivity into APAC from Canadian finance, tech and startup industries - aboot time!

30th October 2020

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CA calls for restricting state agencies' access to metadata The lobby group representing the telecommunications industry has called on the government to accept recommendations made by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security and repeal two sections of a law which have allowed numerous state agencies to gain access to Australians' telecommunications metadata.

29th October 2020

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mmWave 5G a ‘step closer’ with call for applications The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) says the deployment of 5G technology in Australia is a step closer, with applications for millimetre wave (mmWave) spectrum to open for the 26 and 28 GHz bands from November.

28th October 2020

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NBN Co begins work on upgrading copper areas with fibre The NBN Co is beginning work this week to extend fibre into some metropolitan and regional areas in NSW, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia.

27th October 2020

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Mobile subscriptions set to recover in 2021: Economist Intelligence Unit Mobile subscriptions will recover by 3.4% in 2021 from a drop of a little more than 2% in 2020, the Economist Intelligence Unit has predicted in a new report, adding that the strongest growth would be seen in Asia and the Middle East.

26th October 2020

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