CommsWire - 5 February 2018

Telstra takes $273 million hit on Ooyala write down Telstra is preparing to write down by $273 million the value of Ooyala, its US-based intelligent video business, to zero. The telco announced the write down following what it says were substantial efforts over the past 18 months to improve the business performance.

CommsWire - 28 June 2017

NBN Co increases downloads for satellite service NBN Co, the company building Australia's national broadband network, has announced that it will increase both the monthly download limits and the average peak downloads by up to 50% on its Sky Muster satellite service.

CommsWire - 24 March 2017

AT&T global network backs up Red Bull Formula One team Advanced technology including global connectivity services from US telco AT&T will play a critical part in Australian Daniel Ricciardo?s attempt to win the Australian grand prix in Melbourne this weekend with the Red Bull team.

CommsWire - 30 January 2017

NBN prospective customers in the dark on network technology: Patton Internet Australia chief executive Laurie Patton says it is "disturbingly apparent? the company building the National Broadband Network, NBN Co, is becoming ?reluctant to provide the sort of information its prospective customers need and expect? about progress on building the network.

CommsWire - 28 November 2016

Census bungle inquiry: what did it achieve? The 112-page report into the failed 2016 census, tabled by the Senate Economics Reference Committee on Thursday, presumably brings to an end ? for the year at least ? the unedifying tale of how bureaucrats and tech firms bungled what should be an orderly count of the populace.

CommsWire - 29 July 2016

Kantar?s OZ Carrier Share to June 2016: lots of winners including you Almost everyone seems to have done well in Kantar?s latest Australian Carrier Share Barometer to June 2016, and despite churn between providers, user numbers and competition has risen. Telco complaints increase, but Vodafone fares best

CommsWire - 16 May 2016

Post Telstra talks failure, San Miguel in Philippines in talks with four Asian telcos; Zypcall claims to ?change phone calls forever? by transforming boring on-hold screen; Two Chinese telco giants to drop 4G prices; Patton says UK site blocking exercise was a dud; Apple tips $1 billion into China ridesharing.

CommsWire - 11 April 2016

IT spending in Australia forecast to hit A$79.9 billion Telecom service spending will reach US$1.4 trillion in 2016 ? but that?s a decline of 2.0% for the year. Why are we surprised that the NBN is a mess? Politicians excel at dog-whistling. Given that, it is surprising that people are now expressing surprise at the mess that NBN has become, given the clear signals that the Coalition provided well before it was voted into office.

CommsWire - 4 April 2016

Hawaiki announces construction of trans-Pacific cable; Telstra?s 3 April free data day: fast and slow, previous record busted; 43rd anniversary of the first cellular phone call by Martin Cooper; IT Scalability on Demand: pay-per-use arrives in the data centre; iOS malware sidesteps iPhone mobile device management; Call for telcos to take action over toll fraud; BlackBerry may release another Android handset soon.

CommsWire - 30 March 2016

Basslink cable fault finally pinpointed; Lightning Broadband promises faster, cheaper broadband without the NBN; BlackBerry: soon to exit smartphones or analyst mischief?; Ezako has a go, helping telcos tackle e-commerce triumphantly; Windows 10 Mobile now in store at Telstra; Visy - first to extend remote site backup to Microsoft Azure using SteelFusion; FBI gains access to iPhone data, ends Apple stoush.