CommsWire - 14 October 2019

Court throws out ACCC case against TPG over pre-payments The Federal Court has thrown out a case filed by the Australian consumer watchdog claiming that telco TPG Telecom had made false and misleading claims to obtain pre-payments for Internet, home telephone and mobile plans.

CommsWire - 2 October 2019

Telstra buys stake in Southern Cross Cable Network Australia's largest telco Telstra has put pen to paper with the signing of a conditional agreement to take up a 25% equity interest in the US$300 million trans-Pacific Southern Cross Cable Network (SCCN).

CommsWire - 30 September 2019

Optus moves ahead with 5G rollout, releases new Samsung, Oppo plans Optus continues the national rollout of its 5G network and has boosted its 5G plans on offer, announcing the availability of Samsung Galaxy S10 and Oppo Reno 5G handsets, as it prepares to reveal further plans for the rollout in coming weeks.

CommsWire - 24 September 2019

Australian smartphone sales down by 6% in first half A little more than four million smartphones were sold in Australia in the first half of 2019, the emerging technology analyst firm Telsyte says, adding that this was a drop of 6% year-on-year. Optus goes free with regional mobile services offering Regional users of Optus services are being offered three months plans free of fees on selected new mobile services.

CommsWire - 13 September 2019

Huawei chief offers to share technology with Western firm Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technology has expressed its willingness to sell its 5G technology to a Western company and allow the latter to develop it as it wished, while the Chinese firm continued on its own chosen path.

CommsWire - 9 September 2019

Merge NBN Co with separated InfraCo, says telco guru Telstra’s infrastructure division, known as InfraCo, should be completely separated from Telstra and become a new public company with minimal Telstra shareholding. What’s more, it should be merged with NBN Co according to a leading telecommunications industry pundit.

CommsWire - 2 September 2019 Revision

No NBN upgrades planned for FttN users planned NBN Co is planning bandwidth improvements for FttC (fibre to the curb) and HFC (hybrid fibre coax) customers. But premises connected via FttN (fibre to the node) will receive no enhancements, at least during the life of the new NBN 2020-23 Corporate Plan.

CommsWire - 2 September 2019

No NBN upgrades planned for FttN users planned NBN Co is planning bandwidth improvements for FttC (fibre to the curb) and HFC (hybrid fibre coax) customers. But premises connected via FttN (fibre to the node) will receive no enhancements, at least during the life of the new NBN 2020-23 Corporate Plan.

CommsWire - 21 August 2019

Connexus pilots ‘Pay-it-Forward’ free digital phone service The South Australian town of Gawler will be the first regional community to receive free digital phone services under a ‘Pay it Forward’ scheme to be conducted by Melbourne-based ISP, Connexus.

CommsWire - 8 August 2019

Australia Post set to undertake telecommunications ‘transformation’ Australia Post is set to undertake a telecommunications ‘transformation” of its business, with the roll out of a series of upgrades to its network that it says will optimise performance for services across the country, as it plans for the future.