CommsWire - 16 August 2018

NBN Co records $4.1b loss for full-year 2018 NBN Co has recorded a loss of $4.1 billion for the full-year 2018, according to results announced on Thursday. This is less than the loss of $4.24 billion for the full-year 2017, but much more than the $2.75 billion loss the company posted for the full-year 2016.

CommsWire - 13 August 2018

ACCC reports third of NBN users now on 'higher speed plans' Residential broadband customers "continue to shift to higher speed NBN plans, with more than one third of all NBN services now on 50Mbps plans, according to the ACCC’s tenth quarterly Wholesale Market Indicators Report released today".

CommsWire - 8 August 2018

Optus profits decline for quarter ended 30 June Australia's second largest telco Optus suffered a drop in profits for the quarter ending 30 June despite increasing revenue and subscriber numbers. The company's latest financial report for the quarter to the end of June this year revealed net profits for the three months dropped by 3.5% to $154 million from $160 million for the same period in 2017.

CommsWire - 7 August 2018

ACCC opens inquiry into mobile voice, SMS MTAS delaration The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has started an inquiry into regulation of wholesale mobile voice and SMS services – and whether to vary or revoke the domestic mobile terminating access service (MTAS) declaration or to make a new declaration.

CommsWire - 2 August 2018

Vodafone extends 'endless data' to SMEs Small business customers can now take advantage of Vodafone plans that include unlimited — albeit throttled — data. ITU launches global ICT sector initiative The International Telecommunication Union has launched a new global research initiative to identify emerging and future ICT sector network demands beyond 2030 and the advances expected of IMT-2020 (5G) systems.

CommsWire - 31 July 2018

Aussie Broadband beats the rest in ACCC's second speed report Large broadband providers hang your heads in shame. Small broadband provider Aussie Broadband has come out on top in the second report from the ACCC's broadband speed monitoring program, achieving 88.3% of download speed and 89.1% of upload speeds for a plan during the busy period.

CommsWire - 25 July 2018

S&P report says 'damaging' write down of NBN inevitable Australia's national broadband network, the NBN, will not return a profit on the billions invested in the project and will suffer a ‘damaging’ write down, a new report from credit ratings agency Standard & Poors says.

CommsWire - 24 July 2018

Telstra union says Telstra customer service to get 'horrendous as jobs axed' The union representing Telstra workers says "Telstra’s already poor customer satisfaction levels will go from bad to horrendous if the telco pushes ahead with its plans to axe 8000 jobs".

CommsWire - 15 July 2018

Best to sell NBN Co only a decade after rollout ends: expert The best option for NBN Co after 2022 — when the network rollout is completed — would be for the government to retain it for at least 10 years as that would bring it the most benefit from its investment, a network expert says.

CommsWire - 11 July 2018

Government sets limits to encourage competition for 5G spectrum The Australian Government has announced competition limits which it says will allow a competitive auction by telcos bidding for 5G spectrum in the 3.6 GHz band.