CommsWire - 29 May 2018

Optus sacks another 400 to 'future-proof' company Close on the heels of announcing 200 jobs would go due to phasing out its Virgin Mobile subsidiary, Singtel Optus has announced that it would be making another 400 positions redundant in the coming months.

CommsWire - 23 May 2018

Optus fined $1.5m for misleading customers over NBN transition Optus has been fined $1.5 million in the Federal Court for misleading customers by telling them their services would be disconnected if they did not move from its HFC network to the National Broadband Network (NBN).

CommsWire - 21 May 2018

Vodafone launches 4.9G on Huawei in Sydney?s West Vodafone's first FDD Massive MIMO trial site has gone live in Parramatta, the first of five sites across Australia to act as trial locations for 4.9G, with Sydney's Chinatown and Haymarket to follow, and it's using Huawei technology to make it happen. 

CommsWire - 17 May 2018

Optus lifts profits, boosts mobile and broadband customers Optus has increased its full-year profits to $817 million and boosted customer ranks over the last 12 months with the addition of 384,000 new mobile subscribers and 225,000 new NBN broadband customers, according to its full year financial report.

CommsWire - 12 March 2018

Qld plagued by Internet, phone problems: report Phone and Internet problems in Queensland have dominated reports to the State?s community legal sector workers, according to a new report by the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) and Community Legal Centres Queensland.

CommsWire - 9 March 2018

Optus, Cisco partner on Commonwealth Games Optus Business and Cisco are joining forces to create a smart network which they say will allow global connections to the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games in April.

CommsWire - 26 February 2018

Optus jumps on Samsung Galaxy S9 bandwagon soon after launch Optus has announced pre-orders for the Samsung Galaxy 9 and 9+ shortly after the South Korean conglomerate held a news conference in Barcelona to launch the two smartphones.

CommsWire - 9 February 2018

ACCC optimistic for consumers as CVC acquisition rises Telstra continues to dominate the market for services on the NBN, well ahead of all other telcos, with just under half of the services nationally. The good news is that there has been a significant increase in CVC acquisition across the industry by retailers.

CommsWire - 7 February 2018

NBN Co trials enterprise gigabit service NBN Co has begun a trial of a new wholesale product that will provide symmetrical speeds of up to 1Gbps and three of the largest fixed line telecommunications providers have jumped on board.

Future Mode of Operation

The 1992 Future Mode of Operation strategy was to achieve a fully competitive, almost fully digital inter-exchange network, approaching world parity within five years. The paper covers the story of the rationale and planning, and the building of the first competitive telecommunications network strategy in the Postmaster General's Department (PMG), Telecom Australia (Telecom) and AOTC (Telstra) in over 90 years.