CommsWire - 12 March 2019

TELSTRA WORKERS SET TO STRIKE OVER PAY AND CONDITIONS Telstra employees are readying for a work strike on Tuesday after the company failed to reach an accord on pay and conditions with the union that represents the workers.

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 - 5 March 2019

Australia slips in fixed broadband speeds while mobile prospers Australia has slipped five places from 55th in December to 60th in January with an average download speed of 33.28Mbps in the fixed broadband table compiled by Ookla, the company that provides the online Speedtest application for testing download and upload speeds.

CommsWire - 4 March 2019

Coles snubs Telstra, cuts $100m NBN deal with Optus Retail giant Coles has unveiled a multi-year $100 million partnership with the business division of Singtel Optus to move its outlets to the national broadband network.

CommsWire - 26 February 2019

Vodafone chief asks US to share evidence about Huawei Vodafone chief executive Nick Read says the US must share any evidence it has about Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies with authorities in Europe, so that they can make an unified decision on using equipment from the company.

CommsWire - 25 February 2019

ACMA to issue revised rules for international mobile roaming The Australian Communications and Media Authority will release modified rules for international mobile roaming later this year, based not on the International Mobile Roaming Standard, but one more attuned to service providers with similar, more flexible rules.

CommsWire - 22 February 2019

Follow our way, not the Huawei, Pompeo tells dissenters US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has told the Fox Business Network that Washington would not partner, or share information, with any country that used Chinese telco Huawei Technologies’ gear in its 5G networks.

CommsWire - 21 February 2019

Telstra says it has first dibs with Samsung S10 5G Both Telstra and Optus have announced they will provide their customers with the new Samsung Galaxy models released overnight, with Telstra claiming to have struck an exclusive deal with the South Korean phone-maker that would ensure its customers get their hands on the 5G device first.

CommsWire - 20 February 2019

Qualcomm's new multimode modem chip to speed up 5G rollout Semiconductor vendor Qualcomm Technologies has launched its much anticipated X55 modem chip for 5G smartphones. The new chip is claimed to be able to support speeds of up to 7Gbps down and 3Gbps up over 5G in the sub-6GHz spectrum.

CommsWire - 15 February 2019

Business case for 5G still unclear, survey finds A survey of chief technology officers who are directly involved with 5G projects at 46 telcos around the globe indicates that most are still not sure about the strength for the business case, the management consulting firm McKinsey says.