CommsWire - 5 October 2018

Broadband provider sees NBN Co move pushing up prices The NBN Co has issued a blog post warning that congestion on the broadband network may "fluctuate" as it forces providers to choose between the original pricing and the new "bundled" pricing system.

CommsWire - 14 September 2018

Australia Singapore Cable fully operational today After two years to construct; more than five years of planning; 4600km of undersea cable laid; cost of $US170m; and involving more than 60 staff, today marks the fully operational start of Australia’s newest, fastest and most direct connectivity route into Asia.

CommsWire - 23 August 2018

Huawei, ZTE to be excluded from Australia’s 5G network Chinese telecommunications equipment providers Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corporation have both been blocked from participating in the rollout of 5G networks in Australia.

CommsWire - 22 August 2018

Optus to cut another 600 jobs over next two months Following in the footsteps of its larger competitor Telstra, Singtel Optus will sack 600 workers over the next two months in what it says is a bid to reduce the number involved in back-office work.

CommsWire - 21 August 2018

Smaller NBN RSPs may be in trouble after October: claim Smaller retail service providers who are selling NBN connections may be forced out of business after October this year when the bundles sold by NBN Co more or less become the single way that RSPs buy bandwidth from the company, Damian Ivereigh, chief executive of the small Tasmanian ISP Launtel, claims.

CommsWire - 14 August 2018

UK, Canada lobbying Australia not to exclude Huawei The UK and Canada are understood to be lobbying Australia not to ban Chinese telecommunications equipment firm Huawei from playing a role in building 5G networks Down Under, CommsWire has learnt.

CommsWire - 8 August 2018

Optus profits decline for quarter ended 30 June Australia's second largest telco Optus suffered a drop in profits for the quarter ending 30 June despite increasing revenue and subscriber numbers. The company's latest financial report for the quarter to the end of June this year revealed net profits for the three months dropped by 3.5% to $154 million from $160 million for the same period in 2017.

CommsWire - 31 July 2018

Aussie Broadband beats the rest in ACCC's second speed report Large broadband providers hang your heads in shame. Small broadband provider Aussie Broadband has come out on top in the second report from the ACCC's broadband speed monitoring program, achieving 88.3% of download speed and 89.1% of upload speeds for a plan during the busy period.

CommsWire - 19 July 2018

Australia 8th in mobile speeds, but 54th in fixed broadband Australia has enviable mobile download speeds, averaging out at 50.53Mbps and sitting eighth in a list of 124 countries compiled by Ookla, the company that provides the online Speedtest application for testing download and upload speeds.

CommsWire - 18 July 2018

MyRepublic launches new broadband plans for Australian small businesses NBN-loving ISP MyRepublic has finally launched plans specifically for small businesses in Australia, marking the company's expansion beyond consumer NBN plans since launching in November 2016.