CommsWire - 7 July 2017

Australia stuck with higher cost of deploying FttP: NBN Co NBN Co has attempted to defend the higher costs of deploying fibre-to-the-premises in Australia and ?set the record straight? on recent media claims about the local cost of FttP compared to other operators around the world.

CommsWire - 6 July 2017

Fixed broadband costs push Australia back in digital readiness The cost of fixed broadband is cited as the main reason why Australia has slipped two places to 18th on the World Economic Forum?s Networked Readiness Index. A total of 139 countries were surveyed.

CommsWire - 30 June 2017

Optus announces another $10m mobile coverage boost Australia's second biggest telco Optus has announced an investment of $7 million to improve mobile coverage in and around Busselton, Margaret River and Bunbury.

An Evaluation and Enhancement of a Novel IoT Joining Protocol

Securely joining IoT devices to Wi-Fi Networks is discussed. A new user interface paradigm is implemented to simplify the process, making it accessible to a larger range of users.

CommsWire - 26 May 2017

Patton accuses Morrow of defaming him ?under privilege? Internet Australia executive director Laurie Patton claims NBN Co CEO Bill Morrow used the cloak of parliamentary privilege to make false and defamatory remarks about him and IA at a Senate Estimates Committee.

CommsWire - 23 May 2017

Review recommends redefining ACMA role, sector-wide reforms still to come The Federal Government?s two-year review of the Australian Communications and Media Authority has made 27 recommendations for reform of ACMA including a more defined role of its regulatory remit at a time of ?radical change? in the communications sector over 10 years.

CommsWire - 10 May 2017

Megaport enables new Sydney-Los Angeles route Interconnection services provider Megaport has now delivered capacity on its new link between Sydney and Los Angeles to cater for what it says is growing enterprise demand.

A Trust-Aware RPL Routing Protocol to Detect Blackhole and Selective Forwarding Attacks

This research addresses blackhole and selective forwarding routing attacks. These are fundamental security attacks on the routing of data in IoT networks.

CommsWire - 18 April 2017

TPG shows it want to play with the big boys TPG is a contradiction in terms, especially when one considers other players in the Australian telco space: it is both low-key and also very ambitious. Inabox weighs in on industry dissatisfaction with data retention laws Australia?s new data retention laws have been labelled as rubbish, and even anti-competitive, by wholesale telecommunications and IT services group Inabox.

CommsWire - 28 March 2017

Optus ups the ante with new data-heavy mobile plans Optus is keeping up the pressure in the data-hungry mobile phone environment with its latest release of a new premium mobile plan giving customers 100GB of data. NBN: AVC, CVC charges ?put gigabit plans out of reach? New Zealand can offer its residents 1Gbps broadband plans for NZ$130 (A$120) a month because the access virtual circuit (AVC) charges are low, the ISP MyRepublic says.