CommsWire News
Telstra, Optus and Vodafone hit with class action on late fees; Tablet sales decline, but Android outsells iPad; Microsoft Azure goes down worldwide; Warren & Brown build Vietnamese FTTH pilot; Telstra expands unified comms globally; Vodafone gives visitors to NZ a 4G boost.
20th August 2014
Telstra renews Ericsson deal to support SDN; Telstra has confirmed Ericsson as its continued supplier for optical transport; Dead as a Dodo; Impossible to cost data retention, says iiNet; Australian IT managers unaware of privacy laws; Samsung buys its way into IoT market; MobileMuster wants your old phones.
19th August 2014
ANALYSIS Turnbull talks up Telstra?s NBN plans; ECONOMUSE Hobson?s choice with NBN Co pricing; Review of 27 GHz licensing arrangements; Big increase in regional Australians online; Internet usage in Australia by region.
18th August 2014
Telstra shares hit 12 year highTelstra shares closed at $5.56 yesterday, on the back of solid financial results and a positive outlook. They were last that high in 2002. Note that a full analysis of Telstra?s financial results was contained in a special edition of CommsWire yesterday (13 August)
15th August 2014
Special edition about Telstra's record financial results
14th August 2014
ANALYSIS Another Government report slams the NBNAnother day, another Government-commissioned report criticising Labor?s NBN. Big shift to newspapers onlineAustralian print newspapers are continuing their long decline in circulation, but online readership is up.
14th August 2014
Telstra spends $350 million to enter video streaming marketTelstra has announced it will acquire US video platform supplier Ooyala. SpeedCast lists on ASXSatellite networking company SpeedCast International started trading yesterday on the ASX yesterday following its recent float and acquisitions.
13th August 2014
Mobile industry says data retention will cost $500 million ? just for startersAustralia?s mobile phone industry says a data retention scheme could cost $500 million just to set up, with annual running costs in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
12th August 2014
ANALYSIS Government backtracks on metadata, while Optus warns of costThe Government now says that metadata will not include your browsing history. But there is still confusion over just what it does include ? and how much it will cost.
11th August 2014
OPINION Three Stooges ? data retention turns to farceIt?s becoming all too familiar. Government policy made up on the fly, ministers shooting from the lip, the public being taken for fools. Welcome to data retention 2014 style.
8th August 2014