News
Broadband education package released for consumers Consumers now have access to an education package designed to help them better understand the factors that can influence the performance of their broadband service. Wangle: Australia?s first ACMA-compliant VPN Wangle Technologies has launched what it says is Australia's "fastest, most secure [and] cheapest mobile VPN." Yet it complies with metadata retention requirements.
21st April 2017
Telco positions escape 457 visa axing Telecommunications jobs have largely been unaffected by the scrapping of the 457 visa skilled migration program announced this week by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
20th April 2017
Cormann rejects write-down advice on NBN from Slattery COMMENT: Finance Minister Mathias Cormann has rejected advice from telco veteran Bevan Slattery who has suggested that the government write down most of its investment in the national broadband network and lower access prices.
19th April 2017
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