CommsWire - 23 August 2018

Huawei, ZTE to be excluded from Australia’s 5G network Chinese telecommunications equipment providers Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corporation have both been blocked from participating in the rollout of 5G networks in Australia.

CommsWire - 14 August 2018

UK, Canada lobbying Australia not to exclude Huawei The UK and Canada are understood to be lobbying Australia not to ban Chinese telecommunications equipment firm Huawei from playing a role in building 5G networks Down Under, CommsWire has learnt.

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 - 1 August 2018

Telstra wins awards for fastest mobile, fixed network Telstra has been named the fastest broadband provider in both the mobile and fixed broadband categories in the first two quarters of this year by Ookla, the company that provides the popular online Speedtest app for testing download and upload speeds.

CommsWire - 27 July 2018

Labor seeks ANAO audit of NBN Co corporate plan The Australian Labor Party has written to the Australian National Audit Office seeking an independent assessment of key assumptions underlying the medium- and long-term financial projections of the NBN Co.

CommsWire - 9 July 2018

Southern Cross Cables ready for Next Sydney landfall Southern Cross Cables has completed the Sydney bore for its Next subsea cable and finalised a deal that makes fibre network operator Superloop a direct customer.

CommsWire - 5 July 2018

Govt moots changes to deal with avalanche of telco complaints The Federal Government has proposed new rules for resolving telecommunications consumer complaints, including setting up an External Dispute Resolution body to deal with complex complaints, that would lead to changes in the setup of the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman.

CommsWire - 29 June 2018

*** This is Friday's edition, which just arrived *** Vodafone revamps tablet and mobile broadband plans in win for customers Vodafone has "revamped" its approach to tablets, no longer following the well worn plans of telcos that lock devices to mobile services plans for two years.

CommsWire - 28 June 2018

Macquarie Telecom, NBN Co sign telecommunications, data services deal Macquarie Telecom has inked a six-year agreement with NBN Co to provide telecommunications and data services to businesses over the National Broadband Network.

CommsWire - 26 June 2018

ABC singles out Huawei from report on pollies' trips A report by lobby group the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, on sponsored overseas trips made by Australian federal politicians to a number of countries, says that Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei sponsored 12 trips for politicians to visit its headquarters in Shenzhen, making it the biggest corporate sponsor of such trips.