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ACCAN pressures Optus to ban 3rd party charges Telecommunications consumer interest group ACCAN is pressuring Optus to follow Telstra and Vodafone and ban third party mobile subscriptions. MNF?s Symbio launches sub-wholesale MVNO offer Wholesale telecommunications provider, Symbio Networks ? part of the MNF Group - has launched a sub-wholesale mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) offer.

30th August 2017

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ECONOMUSE: Price rebalancing to make the NBN affordable The debate about NBN Co technology choices should be buried. It is not the lack of fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) that is holding us back. It is what you do with whatever you have. It is the current business model relying on CVCs that is not working, as some are belatedly realising. 

10th August 2017

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ECONOMUSE: The blame game - cutting the gordian knot Vodafone Hutchison Australia?s solution does not cut it. Australians still hang on to their landlines In the era of mobile phones and smartphones many Australians still find it difficult to give up their trusty landline phone services, with a new survey revealing that 55% still have a landline phone.

31st July 2017

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Revised telco industry codes to speed up broadband connections: ACMA The telecommunications industry code that addresses a number of the sources of customer dissatisfaction with phone connection delays has been revised to now cover broadband services, including the NBN.

27th March 2017

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RRRC pushes for better data, voice services after USO review The newly-formed Regional Rural and Remote Communications Coalition is hopeful voice and broadband access for Australians living and working in rural and remote areas will be improved as a result of a review of the USO.

9th December 2016

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Voice is a growth market, being ignored: Mynetfone; Dubber and MyNetFone: ?world-class? cloud call recording for landline customers coming; TPG?s NBN bundles for small business; Zerto zeroes in on teachings from Telstra?s outage troubles; Why iPhone SE makes sense; Optus offers free calls to Belgium.

24th March 2016

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Work underway to get rid of mobile blackspots; Dubber pursues commercial agreements with telcos, signs Macquarie to pilot; Huawei pitches its plan for telecoms ?digital transformation?; Omni-channel contact is a paradigm shift; Happy birthday .sydney; Dridex financial Trojan generates millions of spam emails daily.

18th February 2016

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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

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ACCC proposes ?superfast? broadband access regulation; Dubber launches in US market with first up client; Huawei designs its own chips ? faster, cheaper, better; TPPA: Last chance for Labor to gain some cred; Android malware so difficult to remove you might need to buy a new smartphone; Welcome to the age of Ossia?s true wireless charging; Telstra taking ACCC to Federal Court over ruling to drop charges.

9th November 2015

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2015 review of broadband pricing; COMMENT: We shouldn?t stop at already out of date MTM; Dubber seals deal with UK?s The Voice Factory; First loss in 30 years for Australia Post as letter service declines; Data breaches a growing threat to mobile payments.

28th September 2015