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Telstra boasts iPhone 12 'deserves Australia's best 5G' During Apple's iPhone 12 launch today, Telstra's logo was right up there with other global telcos as one of Apple's important 5G partners, with Telstra to offer all four iPhone 12 models for "a powerful 5G experience". But what about mmWave 5G in Australia?

14th October 2020

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NBN Co and CSIRO sign new agreement to enhance future digital capability Wanting to work together on national research projects that combines the expertise and resources of both organisations, NBN Co and CISRO will strengthen research and planning for Australia's needs in the post-COVID digital age.

13th October 2020

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Telstra touts its 5G offering as faster than ‘closest competitor’ Optus Australia’s largest telco operator Telstra has touted its 5G mobile offering as significantly faster than its closest competitor Optus, using a number of limited benchmark tests to back-up its claim.

6th October 2020

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Telco problems cost Australians millions of dollars in lost time Resolving phone and Internet issues costs Australians over $150 million per year in lost time, according to new research from Australia's communications consumers peak body, the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN).

30th September 2020

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Telstra and Microsoft digital partnership extended With the partnership billed as signalling "new generation digital foundations for Australian businesses", Microsoft will help Telstra set up "one of Australia’s largest digital twins", with emissions reduction initiatives, and the continued driving of digitally transformative operational models.

25th September 2020

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Mobile business messaging traffic to reach 2.7 trillion Mobile business messaging traffic is forecast to reach 2.7 trillion this year, up from 2.5 trillion last year, driven primarily by growth in the retail sector during the COVID-19 pandemic.

18th September 2020

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Global 5G smartphone shipments set to hit 278m units in 2020 Global 5G smartphone shipments in 2020 will reach 278 million units in 2020, with 62% of these being in Greater China technology analyst firm Canalys says, but the overall smartphone volume will drop 10.7% year-on-year.

14th September 2020

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Huawei positions own mobile OS, HarmonyOS, as rival to Android Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies will release its own mobile operating system, HarmonyOS, by year-end and position it as an alternative to Google's Android mobile operating system, a senior company official told a developers' conference in Dongguan on Thursday. The conference was streamed live on YouTube.

11th September 2020

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MNF Enterprise to provide IP-based telecoms to Government Communications provider MNF Enterprise has been selected as a preferred supplier to the Digital Transformation Agency’s (DTA) telecommunications marketplace.

10th September 2020

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Australia finishes 62nd in world broadband speed rankings, NZ stands 23rd Australia has fared poorly among nations that managed to qualify for the 2020 Worldwide Broadband Speed League which looked at the speeds in 221 countries, being ranked 62nd with an average download speed of 25.65Mbps, and trailing New Zealand which finished 23rd with an average of 66.66Mbps.

4th September 2020