CommsWire - 18 March 2016

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CommsWire - 17 March 2016

?Burning platform? Nokia CEO and MS exec, Stephen Elop and Optus Kevin Russell join Telstra; Linksys adds clustering to business Wi-Fi AC access points; Vodafone/Huawei trial promises better coverage in stadiums and other dense areas; Metricon Stadium provides Wi-Fi to 27,500 spectators, releases app; NextDC launches OneDC DCIM-as-a-service; European broadband to fly high over next five years; Snooping fallout: Microsoft to offer cloud services in Germany.

CommsWire - 15 March 2016

Planned wireless network in Philippines: no more; Samsung warns of tough times ahead; Basslink repairs put Taswegians off side ? many back to dial up speeds; NEC Australia and Microsoft form Azure IoT alliance; If you view porn don?t do it on Android ? and don?t do it in Australia

CommsWire - 9 March 2016

Telstra and Cisco promised 'redefined customer experience' with SDN; Kogan goes all ?Hulk Hogan? on 28 day billing periods; ACCC investigation: Vaya telco responds; Enterprise Cloud - privacy and security remain top concerns; Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise signs Integrated Products as newest OZ distie; Jennifer Kyriakakis talks Matrixx, telcos, Telstra, tech and International Women?s Day.; D-Link Launches Extreme Streaming Education Campaign.

CommsWire - 4 March 2016

Telstra outage affected 490,000 pre-paid customers; Verizon Wireless certifies Netcomm?s 4G LTE Light Industrial M2M Router; The strong Vocus focus on its new national Partner Program; NEC to help Adelaide become ?world-leading smart city? - multi-function polis reborn?; Global Cloud Xchange expands cloud footprint with AWS; Survey says... Apple is wrong; Animal Logic adopts Brocade?s New IP Infrastructure.

CommsWire - 2 March 2016

Has Malcolm Turnbull lost his opportunity for change?; Smartphones including iPhone now predominant source of malware; Apple & Samsung push global NFC mobile payment users toward 150 million; Telstra customers get 200GB free OneDrive; Point-of-sale breaches continue to make headlines; Apple 'cannot be forced to provide data' in drug case; Apple event March 21: iPhone SE, new iPad Air 3, Watch updates.

CommsWire - 26 February 2016

ACMA seeks industry input on Mobile Roaming Standards; Richard Bean replaces Chris Chapman as ACMA chief; Motorola, Ericsson collaborate with Telstra on push-to-talk trial; EFA attacks ?hard-line? Nikolic as head of Intelligence, Security committee; Inmarsat partners with Thales on EU aviation network infrastructure; Pre-order Samsung S7 from Telstra and get a free VR headset; GCX uses NextDC data centres for Australian push.

CommsWire - 25 February 2016

Revenue up, profits up, customer retention buoys Macquarie Telecom; Livingstone departing Telstra ahead of next phase of growth; Metronode achieves NABERS of 4.5, now going for 5.0; Optus offers its customers free calls to Fiji for two weeks; Optus receives ?global 4G award? at Mobile World Congress; ACMA changes tack on approach to broadband planning; Destination Melbourne for Cisco DevNet & ANZ developers.

CommsWire - 24 February 2016

Government to review USO, Vodafone welcomes the move; Qantas FINALLY bringing fast, free inflight Wi-Fi to Aussie skies from 'early' 2017; Telstra strengthens internal security with Darktrace; Foxtel says new Broadband plans respond to consumers wanting more & more; The people have their say at telecoms Meet the People Forum; Govt flags changes to telco consumer safeguards; Megaport, Akamai seal global CDN deal; Former US solicitor-general to defend Apple against FBI.

CommsWire - 22 February 2016

Optus, Huawei successfully trial 4.5G; Telstra?s mobile 1Gbps service coming, trial of Ericsson 5G for 2018 Comm Games; Phone complaints lowest in 9 years, but Internet complaints up; Wireless industry to collaborate on CBRS; LG?s G5: a ?modular? smartphone with amazing mod-cons; Bloody dropouts; On-line security and privacy in a post-Snowden world.