CommsWire - 15 October 2018

Labor not ruling out writedown of NBN: Rowland The Australian Labor Party is keeping open the option of writing down the value of the national broadband network if it were to win the next federal election, according to Shadow Communications Minister Michelle Rowland.

CommsWire - 3 October 2018

Full 5G implementation at least two years away, says Ruckus chief Despite all the hype about 5G at the moment, a full implementation of the technology specification is at least two years away, according to Carl Jefferys, ANZ country manager for Ruckus Wireless.

CommsWire - 19 February 2018

Spirit offers back-up Internet service over wireless NBN alternative Internet service provider Spirit Telecom has launched a back-up Internet service that will remain redundant until it is needed, under the name Redundancy-as-a-Service.

CommsWire - 23 June 2016

Former NBN chief intervenes in election to slam Coalition?s broadband plan The founding CEO of the National Broadband Network, Mike Quigley, has intervened in the last two weeks of the federal election, slamming the Coalition for making a ?huge miscalculation? with the network?s use of copper access technologies. NBN not biting as an issue in Australian election

CommsWire - 17 June 2016

Australian data centre services market: growing at 12.4% CAGR to 2022, $2+ Villion by 2021 Demand and growth of the Australian data centre (DC) services market is being driven by big data, IoT, analytics, mobile data, storage, computing power, infrastructure and more. Internet Australia takes Switkowski to task over NBN ?leaks? comments

CommsWire - 2 June 2016

Clear trend away from carriers in smartphones market A new report shows a clear trend away from carrier driven contracts in the smartphones market, with buyers increasingly opting to buy phones from retailers up front or by instalments. Quid pro quo for Telstra, NAB in new digital marketplace for SMBs

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 - 6 April 2016

Vodafone reveals Mobile Blackspot rollout schedule Vodafone has released the full rollout schedule for its 70 base stations to be built in regional areas of New South Wales, Tasmania, Queensland, Western Australia and Victoria under the first round of the Mobile Black Spot Programme. Vocus launches NBN Connect for partners

CommsWire - 1 April 2016

Singtel, SubPartners, Telstra to jointly build new submarine cable; ACCAN warns consumers of a mobile phone data ?rip off?; Ruckus Wireless: smart wireless tech now in Alex Perry?s new hotel; Cleantech start-up to help African nations get solar-powered Internet connectivity; Slack opens APAC HQ in Melbourne; Global Capacity appoints telecoms industry veteran as CTO.

CommsWire - 2 November 2015

Amaysim makes its pre-paid plans even more amazing; NBN killer? Nokia and SK Telecom?s joint 5G trial: 19.1 Gbps over the air!; Facebook?s slideshows are video-like for low-bandwidth areas; Australia Post putting up $20 million to drive innovation in ecommerce; Ruckus reassures Cloudpath users on multi-vendor support; Ericsson makes moves to unify 5G infrastructure service market; PMO and Pollenizer launch govt startup incubator: DataStart; Data#3 wins Edith Cowan University contract.