CommsWire daily newsletter - 30 November 2022

Vocus to resell Starlink Business Network provider Vocus has signed an agreement with SpaceX to sell Starlink Business services to Australian enterprise and civil government customers.

CommsWire daily newsletter - 18 October 2022

NBN lists more areas where fibre upgrade is possible Nokia announces new Generation 6 broadband platform NTT claims the world’s fastest optical transmission of over 2Tbitsper wavelength UK regulator says Motorola overcharging for emergency network Vodafone and Altice JV to deploy FttH in Germany

CommsWire daily newsletter - 20 July 2022

Thales unveils solution to protect SAP customers’ public cloud data French multinational company Thales has unveiled a data cloud solution that will safeguard SAP customers’ sensitive data in SAP applications in public cloud environments.   Lenovo ISG partners with Cloud Connect WA to offer cloud-based services to enterprises

CommsWire - 26 October 2018

FttH alternative needed for higher broadband speeds: NetComm Rolling out fibre to the home is an expensive exercise and alternative methods need to be found to provide people with broadband that can yield speeds above 100Mbps, the marketing and communications director of NetComm, Els Baert, claims.

The politics of speed: An examination of national governments' policies for FTTX networks

This article examines the views of a selection of national governments on the desirability of ubiquitous high speed broadband and any plans or policies in place to achieve this. It notes that 82 percent of investment in 2012-17 in the world?s developed countries is estimated to be in FTTH.

CommsWire - 23 October 2015

Regional Australia needs urgent nbn attention: report; Competition watchdog clears way for Foxtel, Ten acquisitions; Microsoft strikes major deal with NSW Government; Telstra HFC boost coming with Arris kit; From hours to minutes: Increased response from emergency warnings in NZ; Brocade joins NGMN alliance; France gets 100G optical fibre network into homes.

CommsWire - 11 August 2015

Myrepublic To Challenge Nbn Resellers; Macquarie Telecom To Resume Paying Dividends; Ipstar Celebrates Ten Years; Reports Of Death Of Tv Ads Greatly Exaggerated; Superloop Gets Hong Kong Telco Licence; Telcos Spared Extra Costs With Inms Number Allocation System; Aldi Goes Xxl-Rated With New $45 Mobile Plan.

CommsWire - 29 July 2015

Don?t Regulate Our Broadband, Says Tpg;?telstra Tv? To Integrate Netflix, Stan And Presto;premature Death Of Ian Birks, Former Aiia Head;apac Ftth Subscribers Up 35% In One Year;speedcast Continues Growth Through Acquisition;can I Trust You? New Technology Will Tell Me.

CommsWire - 16 July 2015

NBN BLOWS OWN TRUMPET ON FIXED WIRELESSThe NBN might be delivering a sup-optimal wired service now the Government has directed it to use copper rather than fibre, but it says its wireless service will be first rate. JAPANESE TELCOS PLAN DSL SHUTDOWN TO FAVOUR FTTHFibre to the Home connections are something many Japanese have signed up to in the tens of millions for years, but DSL connections are steadily falling away to nothing.

CommsWire daily news - 29 April 2015

Australia?s FTTN: Fiddling to the Node while FTTHome burns; TPG pipes in a winner against NBN in court case; Nokia, Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei and Ericsson: top LTE vendors; CenturyLink, NextDC partner up to service Australian market; Most 2G/3G networks to stay on until 2020; Fall in telco customer complaints, service satisfaction levels ?mixed? ; Rio Tinto partners with Accenture for global cloud migration.