CommsWire daily newsletter - 20 January 2021

'World first': 5Gbps download speed over 5G achieved by Telstra, Ericsson and Qualcomm Over at Telstra's 5G Innovation Centre on the Gold Coast, Telstra, Ericsson and Qualcomm have “announced the successful completion of a new 5G maximum download speed record on a commercial network of 5Gbps for a single user” via a 5G NR data call.  

CommsWire - 16 September 2019

China behind February Australian parliament breach: claim Australian intelligence officials have concluded that the breach of the Federal Parliament network in February was carried out by China, but has kept it quiet to avoid any problems in the bilateral trade relationship, a report claims.

CommsWire - 23 February 2018

NBN Co's quest for more ARPU is ill-fated: network expert The quest by the NBN Co to push up the average revenue per user is ill-fated as this would lead to a rise in retail prices, which would in turn, result in a drop in the number of paying customers, a network expert claims.

CommsWire - 21 August 2017

NetComm and Openreach demonstrate ?world-first? reverse powered Gfast DPU Gigabit speeds over FttDP (AKA FttC) based on Gfast using a reversed power fed Gfast DPU? NetComm and Openreach say they?ve achieve it in a world first.

CommsWire - 8 June 2017

Troubled Vocus gets $2.2B takeover offer from KKR Australia's fourth biggest telecommunications company Vocus has received a $2.2 billion takeover offer from private US equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

CommsWire - 21 April 2017

Broadband education package released for consumers Consumers now have access to an education package designed to help them better understand the factors that can influence the performance of their broadband service. Wangle: Australia?s first ACMA-compliant VPN Wangle Technologies has launched what it says is Australia's "fastest, most secure [and] cheapest mobile VPN." Yet it complies with metadata retention requirements.

CommsWire - 6 March 2017

Telstra follows up investment with VeloCloud strategic partnership Telstra has put together a strategic partnership with cloud network startup VeloCloud as the San Francisco based company is set to expand its business globally to support larger carrier and enterprise customer deployments.

CommsWire - 24 February 2017

Vodafone grows customers to 5.5 million, but MTR rates cut spawns loss Vodafone Hutchison Australia has posted a net loss of $241.8 million for the 12-months to the end of December, with the telco putting the loss down to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission decision to cut mobile termination rates (MTR).

CommsWire - 20 October 2016

Vodafone to offer NBN-based broadband by end-2017; Telstra loses another top executive as CISO quits; Google Pixel on sale today - first looks; Kogan goes after new customers with enticing ?first birthday? deal; Vodafone denies it is cutting pre-paid phones; Vodafone?s European NB-IoT push for Q1 2017 gets analysed; WikiLeaks accuses Kerry of getting Assange off net; 

CommsWire - 24 August 2016

Telstra?s new Pre-Paid Plus plans at $40 and $50 very competitive With MVNO activity heating up to fantastic new levels of competition, it?s very interesting to see Telstra make its most generous pre-paid moves yet.