News
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
Ericsson has released its November 2015 Mobility Report: video traffic to soar; TNZI to quadruple its European network; nbn looks set to get a new board member; Telco protection code delivers millions in savings to consumers; Vodafone perks up Prepaid Combo with ?year of bonus data?; Telstra adds iPad Pro to its plans; Norwood?s World Phone does first ?Double Million? as Android approaches
19th November 2015
DTO snubs advice from peak industry bodies; Microsoft pushes Azure and cloud in Ignite keynote; Macquarie Telecom, VMware collaborate in the cloud; SmartTrans on growth path in China market; Nokia joins Open Compute Project; Cisco's financial results reflect growing demand for switches; Wynyard?s $3.2M cyber solution Telstra deal; Microsoft Office 365 now live through AXONVX virtual exchange.
18th November 2015
Growing popularity of subscription video on demand services; Symantec gets slapped by Google for a breach in trust; NextDC going to market for A$70 million to fund new Brisbane data centre; Top ten tech predictions for 2016; Service Stream selects IFS to consolidate systems; Playstation 4 implicated as comms tool in Paris terror attacks; Simonsen appointed Polycom Australia, NZ chief.
17th November 2015