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All three carriers hit with major outages ? Vodafone offers free data weekend

Optus boosts IT and telecoms integration 
? and hires former HP boss for top ICT role

ACCC acts on ATM agreement

Vodafone New Zealand claims world?s fastest mobile broadband ? Telstra best in Oz

ANALYSIS      10Digital Post Australia to close 

Telstra Global expands into US 

Mobile coverage complaints down, but excess data charges up

Cheaper texting on the way 

Online now accounts for half of reported scams 

Phone coverage coming to Melbourne City Loop 

Vodafone makes M2M car acquisition    

Google?s streaming check comes to Australia 

Data#3 to acquire Wi-Fi analytics company 

Cities in race to be Australia?s Wi-Fi hotspot 

Australian developed micro content-payment system planned 

Mobile ?the future? of video, TV consumption 

Telecom NZ acquires cloud specialist 

Nokia to acquire Medio for predictive mapping 

Rolling, rolling, rolling - next NBN rollout areas announced 

OPINION      Mobile viruses 10 years old - unhappy birthday 

Allied Telesis offers its own take on SDN 

Australia Post strengthens regional support 

16G fibre channel quickly replacing 8G 

Optus enhances MobileSat with Inmarsat 

Vodafone and DoCoMo expand M2M agreement 

Amazon releases Fire Phone ? what a gesture 

Foxtel largely to blame for piracy, says Choice

Airlines big investors in comms technologies 

Youth driving the regional smartphone market 

Canberra gets new cyber security centre 

Barriers to cloud ?eroding? as usage grows 

OPINION      Don?t walk away Renai! Delimiter reaches limit 

Hands-free phone performance in cars not good enough, says ITU 

Sprint?s acquisition of T-Mobile moves closer 

4G booming in China 

?Digital wave? spurs video encoder demand