CommsWire daily newsletter - 13 December 2021

How Ericsson will empower children and young people through digital inclusion Telecommunications company Ericsson is committing to empower one million children and young people by 2025 by giving them access to digital learning, tools, content, and development programs.

CommsWire daily newsletter - 7 August 2020

ISPs grapple with outages during COVID-19 lockdown In contrast to both the Asia Pacific region and rest of the world, the outage numbers for Internet Service Providers in Australia didn’t peak in March to coincide with the majority of Covid 19 lockdown orders, according to a new 2020 Internet Performance report.

CommsWire daily newsletter - 19 May 2020

Australians warned of ‘misinformation’ linking 5G and COVID 19 Australians have been warned about a campaign of misinformation linking 5G and the coronavirus, with the Federal Government urging confidence in the country’s stringent safety standards and decades of global scientific research about electromagnetic energy (EME).

CommsWire daily newsletter - 26 March 2020

Aussie Broadband hit with ‘high demand' for services from home workers Broadband retail service provider Aussie Broadband has pleaded with its customer seeking support for their services to use its free My Aussie app or portal due to what it claims is very high customer demand with people working from home because of the COVID-19 virus.

CommsWire - 3 April 2019

Budget R&D tax incentive cut disappoints satellite and other sectors The Federal Government has cut another $1.35 billion from its research and development tax incentive over the forward estimates, according to the Budget papers.

CommsWire - 3 December 2018

Basslink says new report supports its claim on cable failure The company that manages the undersea data and power cable that links Tasmania to the Australian mainland says an additional inquiry commissioned into the failure of the cable in December 2015 is now complete and reiterates what was said earlier: that the failure was caused by unknown factors.

CommsWire - 20 November 2018

House NBN panel asks Govt to change regional broadband levy The Australian Parliament's Joint Standing Committee into the NBN has recommended that the Government update the modelling of its proposed regional broadband levy, in order to reflect the cost increases since the original modelling in 2015.

CommsWire - 1 November 2018

NBN Co continues to rack up losses with broadband rollout Losses continue to mount in the rollout of Australia’s national broadband network, with an after tax loss of $4780 million for the 2018 financial year, still two years out from scheduled completion in 2020.

CommsWire - 15 December 2017

NBN Co unveils new pricing structure with discounted wholesale costs In what it describes as ?dramatic discounts on its top-tier internet access plans? NBN Co has unveiled a new lower cost wholesale pricing structure for retail service providers. Some welcome the move, while political critics have labelled the announcement as a capitulation.

CommsWire - 19 September 2017

Networking team to deliver live satellite streaming for solar race Newtec, Network Innovations, VRT Sandbox and Pacific Live Media have teamed to deliver live satellite streaming globally for Australia's Solar Car World Challenge. Dubber raises $7 million to fund expansion plans Australian-listed call recording platform provider Dubber is topping up its coffers with the completion of a $7 million capital raising.