News
Just another price increase or more ?price gouging??; Telstra hits travellers with big increases in roaming charges; ATO moves further on the road to all-digital future; Decmil diversifies from natural resources to telecoms with SC Services buy; Vodafone launches new premiere flagship Sydney CBD Pitt St Mall Store; Norwood shares download details on Android World Phone app; NSW Government looks to ?innovative technologies? with new communications plan.
2nd December 2015
Macquarie Telecom slams ACCC as ?out of touch? re: NBN competition; Wi-Fi dominates smartphone data consumption; Telstra's 'hip and trendy? flagship store opens in Melbourne; Yatango down and maybe out; Drive someone else?s car at Sydney and Brisbane airports; Optus does 5-year pre-paid deal driving OVO?s V8 Supercars; Optus offers Microsoft?s Lumia 950 and 950 XL with limited big bonuses.
1st December 2015
At the Charles Todd Oration in Sydney on 26 November, the telecommunication industry's top consumer advocate Teresa Corbin, CEO of ACCAN, was awarded the 2015 Charles Todd Medal on behalf of TelSoc. The Charles Todd Medal is regarded as the highest honour that the Australian telecommunications industry can bestow.
30th November 2015
NBN trials new discount pricing model for service providers; Telecoms security reform legislation still a concern for industry; NextDC putting A$200 million into data centre network expansion; Postage, stamp rates on verge of increase to $1; Telstra, NRL extend sponsorship, digital rights deal; ANZ Bank enhances Internet banking with new website; Digital radio takeup increasing to cover home, work, car.
30th November 2015
Andy Penn champions innovation in his 2015 Charles Todd Oration; NBN got what it paid for?will now cost almost half as much again to fix it; Australia links to APAC intelligence centres in fight against cyber crime; More flexibility for smaller service providers with proposed TCP code changes; Australian Telecommunication consumers, since 1870, need heroes; Microsoft Lumia 950/XL ? Australian release 7 December; PayPal joins eftpos payment system; InspireWire
27th November 2015
Telcos turning to customer retention in face of slow revenue growth; Call for industry to step up to the plate on govt digital transformation; Insatiable thirst for faster data speeds quenched for 350,000 lucky regional residents; Chinese underground leads the world in cyber criminal innovation; Australian Ericsson CEO steps up to drive SE Asia and Oceania; Video on demand keeps skyrocketing ? an update; ICT industry not alone, as executive demand plummets.
26th November 2015
ACMA advises telco industry on consumer mobile spending; Nokia, Deutsche Telekom and Cosmos demo claimed LTE-A 3 CA world first; Choice: Fed Gov?t response ?backs open data ? and VPNs; Drip pricing is for drips; Dubber and MNF (MyNetFone) team up ? and other Telco comments; Economuse; Australia a perfect market for Perfecto; MapR data platform delivers efficiency gains to Macquarie Telecom.
25th November 2015
TPG rejects NBN tax; Dimension Data wins contract for Qld Govt new HQ building; Government backs Source IP to bridge gap between research & innovation; Internet TV set to grow into a $40 billion industry in next 5 years; TAFE SA feels safe to shift entirely to MS Azure cloud; Telstra Health?s unique new ?radiology storage and viewing service?; Smartwatch banking apps to exceed 100m by 2020.
24th November 2015
Finally, Australian airlines should soon get in-sky wi-fi; Inmarsat wants better connected ships, too, with Ericsson; Mix and match cloud services cheaper, but come with a warning; Cyber attacks a growing threat to Southeast Asia businesses, governments; Linux Australia suffers another data leak; Warning: Mobile ?bill shock' risk from iOS9 WiFi Assist.
23rd November 2015
Global phone sales rise 15%: Gartner; Ericsson claims yet another LTE Carrier Aggregation world first; Radio frequency spectrum approval will contribute to improved road safety; Advance persistent threats to be more so in 2016; Mobile screen scraping apps should be scrapped; Optus Skype for Business roll-out for real estate group; InspireWire.
20th November 2015