News
NBN under pressure to maintain pace as connections hit 3 million mark The pace of the national broadband network rollout has picked up as connections hit the three million mark, but with the operator, NBN Co, cautioning that the increase in connections and activations presents new customer connection and experience issues.
17th October 2017
Vocus North-West Cable System is up and running The Vocus Group, Australia's fourth largest telecommunications outfit, has successfully connected its high-speed fibre-optic North-West Cable System to the INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project and Shell?s Prelude floating liquefied natural gas facility located off the north-west coast of Australia.
16th October 2017
Fifield outlines how Govt will support 5G rollout The Federal Government has released a 5G directions paper and says it will bring together a working group in order to push deployment of the mobile technology in Australia.
13th October 2017
NBN SAU changes ?unfair? to consumers: ACCAN ACCAN CEO Teresa Corbin has cast doubt on the fairness to consumers of proposed changes to the National Broadband Network Special Access Undertaking, the SAU.
12th October 2017
Foxtel gets aggressive in broadband space Foxtel has tweaked its broadband packages to offer lower prices in some cases, and more options in others, with the company also offering NBN connections on HFC.
11th October 2017
Are NBN prices out of control? ECONOMUSE: There is no effective regulatory constraint on soaring ARPU - be afraid of ARPU very afraid. ACCC wants to avoid regulatory imposition on NBN SAU variation The competition watchdog, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, wants an industry-led outcome on the variations to the Special Access Undertaking for the national broadband network rather than regulatory imposition.
10th October 2017
Privacy groups slam COAG over face recognition database Major privacy organisations in Australia have condemned the decision by the Council of Australian Governments to agree to hand over drivers' licence photos for the creation of a national facial recognition database.
9th October 2017
Facial recognition database system 'could cost billions' The setting up of a national facial recognition database is likely to cost Australia at least hundreds of millions of dollars, but could go into the billions, an expert in the field has told iTWire.
6th October 2017
New nbn Sky Muster plans offer up to 300GB monthly data Retailers are now selling new, larger capacity nbn Sky Muster plans, promising "better value broadband for the bush" at peak and off peak times following announcements made by NBN Co in June of increases to wholesale data limits.
5th October 2017
The September 2017 issue has now been published and papers may be found on the telsoc.org website. The papers provide a good mix of research, public policy comment and telecommunications history. This month the highlights include a paper about Indonesian telecommunications and a proposal for SafetyNet, a new approach to rural and remote communications.
5th October 2017