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Leading Edge Data Centres signs infrastructure deal with NBN Co Leading Edge Data Centres has reached an agreement with the NBN Co to build infrastructure for all RSPs to connect to its data centres in regional Australia.
15th January 2021
50% of Australians now covered by Telstra 5G in 'major rollout milestone' With one in two Aussies now living in Telstra's 5G coverage footprint, Telstra says this progress shows it is on track to "expand coverage to 75% of the population by the middle of the year" as it adds thousands of 5G devices to its network every week.
14th January 2021
nbn claims '5G long-range transmission world record' for fixed wireless Claiming a "world-record" for long-range 5G transmission using mmWave technology, Australia's government-owned National Broadband Network company is actively developing "new options to further optimise the performance and customer experience of the nbn Fixed Wireless network".
13th January 2021
Battery backup remains essential for telecommunications resilience Research firm Venture Insights points out that in south-east Australia's 2019-20 bushfires, about 88% of the telecommunications outages were caused by loss of power outages and only 1% were due to direct fire damage, which implies that better power backups could significantly reduce outages.
12th January 2021
OpenRAN project will not produce solution in the short term, says expert A technologist and inventor has poured cold water on the oft-touted notion that the Open Radio Access Network Policy Coalition — better known as the OpenRAN coalition — will produce anything in the short term to replace products from Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies, which the US and many of its allies have banned from their 5G networks.
11th January 2021
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23rd December 2020
TPG'S FELIX THROWS NEW PHATTER CAT AMONGST TELCO PIGEONS, NOW WITH 'UP TO' 20MBPS SPEED CAP Increasing from a 5Mbps speed capped limit to a whopping and quadrupled "up to 20Mbps" speed capped limit for otherwise unlimited data usage, TPG's felix mobile service just made itself even more attractive.
22nd December 2020
SECURING ENTERPRISES THROUGH THE 5G REVOLUTION GUEST OPINION: New technologies in wireless connectivity are spearheading a disruptive wave of digital transformation, which is changing the fundamental ways of business operations. DARWIN TO GET 'INDIGENOUS' DATA CENTRE Darwin is set to become the home of a new data centre operated by local indigenous-owned business Binary Security.
21st December 2020
ASPI report looks at devolved data centre decisions - Macquarie Telecom Group responds The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has released a new report about devolved data centre decisions, reviewing the current situation, the implications and the challenges, with Macquarie Govt's MD, Aidan Tudehope, issuing comment.
18th December 2020
MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INKS $100M DEAL WITH VIC GOVT FOR AMBULANCE VICTORIA EMERGENCY DATA COMMS SERVICES Comms provider Motorola Solutions has signed a new deal valued at approx. $100 million with the Victorian Government, extending its agreement to provide the government with a dedicated “emergency data communications” managed service for use by Ambulance Victoria.
17th December 2020