CommsWire - 13 March 2019

ACMA moves to disrupt scam telephone calls plague New research on unsolicited calls in Australia shows that more than half of Australian adults have received scam calls daily or weekly, according to the Australian Communications and Media Authority.

CommsWire - 20 June 2017

Productivity Commission calls for winding up of USO by 2020 The much-criticised telecoms industry Universal Service Obligation (USO) finally looks set for the scrapheap, with the Productivity Commission recommending to the Federal Government the winding up of the program by 2020.

CommsWire - 1 March 2017

NBN Co reveals suburbs that will get FttDP NBN Co has revealed that about 700,000 homes will receive NBN services through fibre to the distribution point (FttDP), a technology that it calls fibre to the curb.

CommsWire - 18 October 2016

NBN on board as report predicts global explosion in ultra-fast G.Fast; Sky and Space Global, GomSpace partner on nano-satellite assembly; Google may be stealing mobile traffic: claim; In-flight Wi-Fi: the latest attack vector for cyber theft requires VPN protection; Avaya claims new platform release a glimpse of ?future of UC?; Huawei hosts ?2nd Asia Pacific Submarine Networks Forum? in Singapore; 

CommsWire - 18 March 2016

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Critique of the new NBN policy

This paper addresses the limitations of the Australian government's new NBN policy (11 December 2014) and proposes some changes in approach which share the objectives of the policy but without compromising access speed. The changes will eliminate the lead-in cost entirely and will introduce infrastructure competition in the long-term interests of end-users. They will accelerate the NBN roll-out and ensure that the national infrastructure is responsive to future technologies, market demands and...

A closer look at Deep-fibre FTTdp

In this paper we outline a number of matters that have been raised in relation to Deep-fibre Fibre-to-the-Distribution-Point (FTTdp), and address practical ways that FTTdp can be expected to deliver a maximum overall cost-benefit outcome for the Australian NBN. We conclude that FTTdp must be honestly evaluated if the nation is to achieve a maximal NBN capability outcome.

CommsWire weekly news - 10 October 2014

COVER STORY Split Telstra, says Optus; OPINION Everybody?s wrong except me, says Turnbull; Government mandates cloud computing; Telstra completes $1 billion share buy-back; CA submits revised TCP Code to ?streamline will customer information requirements? ; iiNet makes the case against data retention ; OPINION Telstra makes 1800 calls from mobiles free; Australian broadband downloads pass an exabyte every three months ; Advent One deploys Brocade ; Fibre to the what? A short...

CommsWire daily news - 9 October 2014

Split Telstra, says Optus; OPINION Everybody?s wrong except me, says Turnbull; Government mandates cloud computing; Advent One deploys Brocade; Fibre to the what?; A short introduction to deep-fibre FTTdp.

CommsWire daily news - 29 September 2014

Australia?s surveillance future ?data retention, more powers for ASIO, less oversight; Government acting like Big Brother ? Greens; Business backs data retention ? with oversight; OPINION Anti-terror laws are working ? so why do we need data retention?; Mike Quigley on FTTN versus FTTdp; Harbour IT becomes part of Canon; Vodafone revamps prepaid offerings; NTT DoCoMo establishes 5G research lab; Half IT shops aren't storing all valuable data.