News
TPG shows it want to play with the big boys TPG is a contradiction in terms, especially when one considers other players in the Australian telco space: it is both low-key and also very ambitious. Inabox weighs in on industry dissatisfaction with data retention laws Australia?s new data retention laws have been labelled as rubbish, and even anti-competitive, by wholesale telecommunications and IT services group Inabox.
18th April 2017
TPG pays $1.2b, Vodafone $286m for spectrum TPG has paid a whopping $1.26 billion for two lots of 10MHz in the 700MHz spectrum auction, with Vodafone also shelling out $286 million on buying up the previously unsold spectrum.
13th April 2017
FttDP now slated for 1 million premises on NBN The fibre to the distribution point (FttDP) footprint of the National Broadband Network is being extended to cover 1 million premises ? up from 700,000 premises previously announced by NBN Co.
12th April 2017
Announcing TelSoc's new webpage devoted to articles on Australia's national broadband network: the history, new critiques of the status quo, and visions for a better future.
12th April 2017
TelSoc is holding a forum on telecommunications and security between 22-23 November at the Rendezvous Hotel in Melbourne. Put the forum into your calendar now and start spreading the word to colleagues!
12th April 2017
Tucker: Australia locked out of world class broadband Australia?s increasing use of fibre to the node (FTTN) has locked the country out of world-class broadband for years to come. If Australia is ever to obtain first-class broadband services, it will be necessary to replace FTTN with higher speed technologies says Professor Rod Tucker.
11th April 2017
Tucker: Australia locked out of world class broadband Australia?s increasing use of fibre to the node (FTTN) has locked the country out of world-class broadband for years to come. If Australia is ever to obtain first-class broadband services, it will be necessary to replace FTTN with higher speed technologies says Professor Rod Tucker.
11th April 2017
ACCC to monitor fixed-line NBN speeds The Australian Government has announced a programme to provide consumers more information about the speeds they can expect when using fixed-line broadband connections on the national broadband network.
10th April 2017
Telstra, Google join consortium to build Asia Pacific subsea cable system A consortium of major tech players, including Telstra and Google, has joined forces to build a new international subsea cable system under an agreement with Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN).
7th April 2017
NBN Co hiding poor technology from users, says expert The NBN Co has not undertaken any demonstrations to show Australians what kind of speeds are needed to get good response times when streaming videos, because to do so would show the inadequacy of the technology being used, a network expert says.
6th April 2017