CommsWire daily newsletter - 2 February 2022

Nokia and University of Oulu spearhead radio frequency development and antenna technologies in a new project RF Sampo is the ecosystem project for Optimised Antenna Technology under the Nokia Veturi program.

CommsWire daily newsletter - 20 September 2021

Subscription entertainment lifts in lockdown Despite the eased restrictions during early 2021, pandemic-wary Australians are switching on entertainment subscriptions at a rapid pace and had a total of 42 million subscriptions at the end of June 2021, up from 37 million in June 2020, according to new research from emerging technology analyst firm, Telsyte.

CommsWire daily newsletter - 12 April 2021

Aussies spend almost 17 years in a ‘lifetime’ on their mobiles The average Australian will spend 16.6 years of their life on their mobile phone - equating to 5.5 hours every day or a total of 145,800 hours - based on the average age of around 10 years old that we get our first phone - and average Australian life expectancy.

CommsWire daily newsletter - 29 January 2021

Pentanets lists on the ASX, having raised $22.5m at 25c per share Claiming a market capitalisation of approx $66m with "strong demand" for its IPO "which also included a Customer Offer that closed within a day", Perth-based telco Pentanet is now ASX-listed. 

CommsWire - 24 June 2019

US 5G equipment move 'could hit' Nokia, Ericsson operations Telecommunications equipment vendors Nokia and Ericsson may be forced to move a good part of their operations out of China if a proposed move by the US, to make it mandatory that an 5G equipment used within the country be designed and made outside China, comes into force.

CommsWire - 21 June 2019

Apple explores shifting production out of China: report Apple is thinking of making major changes in its supply chain and has asked its major suppliers to analyse the costs that would be involved in moving between 15% and 30% of production from China to countries like India, Vietnam, Mexico, Indonesia and Malaysia.

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 - 31 May 2018

Qantas continues in-flight Wi-Fi rollout to A330 National airline carrier Qantas says it will have Wi-FI on two domestic A330s and half of the 737 fleet by the end of June, and then 75% of the combined fleet by the end of the year.

CommsWire - 29 May 2018

Optus sacks another 400 to 'future-proof' company Close on the heels of announcing 200 jobs would go due to phasing out its Virgin Mobile subsidiary, Singtel Optus has announced that it would be making another 400 positions redundant in the coming months.

CommsWire - 14 May 2018

NBN, competition pressures negatively impact Telstra Telstra chief Andy Penn has flagged the telco is facing a difficult trading period ahead due to the ?challenging dynamics? of the rollout of the National Broadband Network and increasing pressure on its margins from competitors.