CommsWire - 29 September 2016

NBN drops Optus HFC in favour of FTTdp for rollout to 700,000 premises NBN Co has abandoned plans to rollout the national broadband network on the Optus HFC network for which it paid $800 million ? with the exception of one area in Queensland and will now use  fibre-to-the-distribution point (FTTdp), to deploy the network for up to 700,000 premises.

CommsWire - 20 September 2016

Telstra outlines $250m network fix to retail investors Telstra CEO Andy Penn told retail investors in the first of a series of three shareholders meetings that $250 million is in the process of being spent in 2016 to fix its network problems and improve performance

CommsWire - 9 September 2016

Vodafone comes out swinging with iPhone 7 plans One day after the launch of Apple?s iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, Vodafone has hit the ground running with a range of aggressively priced data and phone purchase plans.

CommsWire - 1 July 2016

Telstra outage happening NOW - AGAIN, Mr Penn! A day after Telstra?s chief executive Andy Penn apologised yet again for yet more Telstra outages, Telstra?s network has once more done the dirty and dropped its bundle. 5G - what?s next in wireless? New ITIF Report explains all

CommsWire - 20 May 2016

Federal Police raid Labor Party offices over NBN documents leak; IA wants telco USO regs changed to include consumer rights to data access; Virgin Mobile Australia outages ? 18 and 19 May; Business Council joins expanding IoT Alliance Australia; Speedcast, Airbus team up on satellite ground station; NextDC prepares for second Melbourne data centre; Satellite operator SES does major deal with Indonesian satellite telco.

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 - 10 May 2016

Vodafone to pay $594.3 million for spectrum; Telstra up in arms about Vodafone ?below market rate? spectrum buy offer; Optus launches VoLTE to major Australian cities; Telstra beefs up Asian network expansion with more investment; NBN Co crowdsources photos for next Sky Muster rocket; IA continues to beat the drum on site-blocking laws; Do mobile phones cause brain cancer?

CommsWire - 20 April 2016

Transport sector to double mobile ticket purchases to 23 billion by 2020 23 billion transport and event tickets will be sold per year by 2020, purchased globally using mobile handsets according to new research. auDA to introduce .au direct registrations Domain administrator, auDA, is to introduce direct registrations in .au, after its board accepted the recommendation of the 2015 Names Policy Panel on direct registrations.

CommsWire - 31 March 2016

Google Fiber launching the 'Fiber Phone' for U.S. market; Optus dials up Uber in partnership with exclusive offerings, 4G trial; The Philippines? leading wireless telco makes smart MATRIXX move; Older Australians prefer dealing with govt in person, but online is ok for younger Aussies; Samsung milked it for all it was worth; Citrix puts browser in the cloud; Internet Australia renews call for fibre over copper for NBN build.

CommsWire - 22 March 2016

Australia back on the fibre track; Mobile and contactless payments to reach $3.6 trillion this year; Norwood sings first distribution agreement MoU with major Vietnamese full-service telco; MCG comms upgrade will make the 'G' mobile device ?friendly?; Patton fires broadside on piracy back at Creative Content Australia; Veritas offers onshore cloud services..