CommsWire daily newsletter - 19 October 2022

5.3 billion phones to be junked as waste in 2022 Of the astonishing number of 16 billion mobile phones possessed worldwide, an equally astonishing number of 5.3 billion will be junked by their owners and end up as waste destined for landfills in 2022

CommsWire daily newsletter - 11 May 2021

Telsyte: COVID-19 ends decade-long mobile services growth streak With TPG Telecom, Optus and prepaid the most impacted, the total number of services has dropped 1.7% from 2019 levels thanks to the pandemic.

CommsWire daily newsletter - 4 November 2020

NBN Co behaving like Telstra did as monopoly: Budde The situation with the national broadband network at the present moment is similar to the time when Telstra was a monopoly and dictated terms to the rest of the market, well-known telecommunications analyst Paul Budde claims.

CommsWire - 1 October 2019

Digital Tasmania critical of west coast mobile services upgrade Non-profit consumer action group Digital Tasmania has decried the fact that a $5.2 million investment to upgrade mobile services in Tasmania's west coast region has been limited to just one mobile operator – Telstra.

CommsWire - 21 March 2019

US says British testing of Huawei gear inadequate US Government officials have warned that the way Britain is going about building its 5G networks could be a threat to its national security if it used equipment from Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies.

CommsWire - 7 February 2019

Telstra plans $160m spend on Vic mobile network projects Telstra has plans to invest more than $160 million on 600 mobile network projects in Victoria during the 2018-19 financial year, with the aim of eliminating black spots, improving data speeds and capacity.

CommsWire - 9 August 2018

NZ telecoms sector under scrutiny by competition enforcement agency Billing, contract terms, marketing and switching practices in the New Zealand telecommunications industry head the list of priority areas for the country’s competition regulator The Commerce Commission’s focus over the next 12-months.

CommsWire - 10 July 2018

NNNCo leads digital transformation of City of Lake Macquarie The City of Lake Macquarie in regional NSW is set to become the first Australian local government area to create a smart city network equivalent to the size of 23 Sydney local government areas.

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 - 4 May 2018

Hawaiki Cable final splice means system complete in June The carrier-neutral Hawaiki submarine cable system connecting Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, American Samoa, Hawaii and Oregon in the US is set for final testing before its June 2018 service start.