CommsWire daily newsletter - 16 October 2020

Study finds firms keen to use LTE or 5G as sole WAN link Nearly 9 in 10 organisations (88%) in Australia surveyed by local technology analyst outfit Telsyte for LTE and 5G wireless network edge solutions provider Cradlepoint are either using or thinking of using LTE or 5G as the sole WAN link in branch locations.

Privacy of Location Information

This article reviews law enforcement/national security access and use of metadata, considering the privacy impact of the revised metadata retention and collection framework introduced in 2015. The review reveals that, after 2015, no comprehensive study was undertaken in the following areas: how location information is generated and exchanged in the IP-mediated LTE network, and how mobile devices are tracked and create more precise location estimates, in the legal and policy context of the...

Handover with Buffering for Distributed Mobility Management

Centralized mobility management (CMM) is widely used in current mobile network technologies. One problem related to CMM is a single point of failure. In this paper, we propose a distributed mobility management (DMM) solution with handover operations for SDN-enabled mobile networks.

CommsWire - 11 December 2017

Data use in Australia explodes by 43% in past year: ACMA The amount of data Australians are consuming has gone through the roof, rising by 43% in the past year, according to a new report tabled in Parliament last week. We?re also using a more diverse range of devices, although the mobile phone is still the most popular and frequently used way to go online.

CommsWire - 14 June 2017

LTE drives mobile broadband explosion: Ericsson More than one million new mobile broadband subscribers every day are being added to networks around the world with an estimated 2.6 billion subscribers expected to be signed up through to 2022.

CommsWire - 6 April 2017

NBN Co hiding poor technology from users, says expert The NBN Co has not undertaken any demonstrations to show Australians what kind of speeds are needed to get good response times when streaming videos, because to do so would show the inadequacy of the technology being used, a network expert says.

Commswire - 28 February 2017

Telstra: LTE-Broadcast across Australia by 2018 Telstra and Ericsson have announced the upcoming deployment of LTE-B and continued investment for the national roll-out of LTE-B in 2017 and beyond.

CommsWire - 19 October 2016

NBN claims ?lightning speeds? of 8Gbps in XG.FAST trials; Patton restrained on NBN Co planned use of ultra-fast XG technology; Bizcaps, Authenticateit team up in counterfeit medicines fight; VIDEO: ?World?s First Gigabit Class LTE Mobile Device and Gigabit-Ready Network?; Avaya contracted by dnata in 5 year, multi-million dollar deal; Talk to the network because Alexa is listening; Naganayagam joins NetLinkz from SAP; 

CommsWire - 29 January 2016

Telstra ?best performer? in Asia Pacific telecoms market: IDC; LTE subscription growth exploding; Smartphone saturation leads to smart marketing; Dropbox makes Office co-authoring easy and Outlook easier; Azure Stack from any data-centre; Yahoo7 launches Mobile Developer Suite; Landesk updates management and security suite range.

CommsWire - 27 January 2016

NBNgate:Commentary; NEXTDC expands data centre services for existing client; NAB?s new mobile payment service backed by VISA; We rank 22nd in global innovation stakes: ITIF; Hey You adds Uber to its order-ahead service; 1 in 3 home Wi-Fi routers to double as public hotspots by 2017; Nokia and KT conduct claimed ?world's first? eMTC field trial on LTE network.