CommsWire - 8 June 2016

Australian elections: major parties silent on NBN policy The Australian federal election campaign has just crossed the halfway mark but one topic both major parties seem eager to avoid is the national broadband network. Telecommunications market under microscope with Productivity Commission review

CommsWire - 1 June 2016

NBN Co wants ACCC approval for variations to Special Access Undertakings NBN Co wants to vary its Special Access Undertakings (SAU) to include fibre-to-the-node, fibre-to-the-basement and hybrid fibre coaxial technologies to which the SAU will apply. Optus on Cloud-N with new SDN release Optus has released a new software-defined networking (SDN) solution it has dubbed Cloud-N.

CommsWire - 19 May 2016

iiNet suffers voice, email and contact centre outages; NextDC to build second Brisbane data centre; Orange Belgium selects messaging platform from Aussie developer Soprano; Nokia brand is back in smartphones and tablets as expected; Microsoft sells Nokia ?feature phone? business for US $350 million; Nokia goes big with IoT and 5G in Russia with major MTS Group telco; Huawei says 'Mate, you got to last longer?.

CommsWire - 18 May 2016

Business confidence in Telstra eroding through repeated outages; Macquarie 4G upgrade offer to mobile customers; Nokia Bell Labs: ?world-first? 10Gbps symmetrical data speeds over DOCSIS 3.1 cable; Vodafone readies for Internet of Things with ?successful? NB-IoT trial; SmartTrans seals deal to sell Aussie wines in China; Rees to boost NSW Government digital services push.

CommsWire - 11 May 2016

NBN N-W Tassie rollout suspended in face of local opposition to satellite; Megaport secures U.S. data centre deployment; Vaya seeks higher customer value via vivacious price beat guarantee; Nokia says 5G blowing the ?winds of change?; Claimed ?world?s-largest? indoor small cell deployment complete in Chile; FCC and FTC in US launch inquiry into mobile device security updates; HTC struggles to compete with Apple, Samsung as smartphone sales fall.

CommsWire - 18 April 2016

Telstra breached SSU obligations, says ACCC The competition watchdog has found that Telstra breached its obligations under the Structural Separation Undertaking (SSU) during the 2015 financial year. Telstra selling out of China?s Autohome for $2.1 billion Telstra is selling most of its stake in Chinese car sales website Autohome to one of China?s largest insurers, Ping An Insurance Group, for A$2.1 billion (US$1.6bn).

CommsWire - 13 April 2016

First nbn FTTN area to go live in W.A. The National Broadband Network has marked a new milestone with the first FTTN area in Western Australia set to go live from Friday this week in the Perth suburbs of Cannington, Wilson, Langford and Beckenham. Comms Alliance blasts govt for delay on data retention funding

CommsWire - 15 February 2016

Nokia flags job cuts after merger with Alcatel Lucent; Revenues up, profits up as Optus continues network expansion; Apple can?t make our iPhones an expensive paperweight ? Error 53 sucks; 5G will drive ?massive? increase in mobile connections: ACMA; Virgin Mobile pops up with 12GB for $50 with unlim Oz calls and text; Australia?s first Tier 4 data centre ? Micron21; In search of cheap Netflix - a scam with teeth.

CommsWire - 10 February 2016

Telstra suffers major mobile outage; New T9000 Trojan targets Skype users; Swedish exec to take over as ICANN chief; Nokia?s 5G showcase coming to MWC 2016 inc speeds over 30Gbps; Mobile Muster helps muster money for Salvos Red Shield Appeal; Kogan conjures cunning killer churn contrivance; Top networking transformative technology trends in 2016.

CommsWire - 28 January 2016

Unlockd locks up deals in US market with Sprint Telecom, Twitter, Yahoo; Telstra invests in Chinese cloud storage provider Qiniu; Nokia can connect rural areas to boosted LTE with ?FastMile?; Kantar OS stats: Apple leads as top brand in US, China but Android grows in US, Europe; Cloud growth drives SAP APAC revenues to ?3 Billion and beyond; Cloud changes business environment for MSPs; Online payment transactions increasingly go mobile.