CommsWire - 28 October 2015

Telstra replaces nearly 40 jobs in Tasmania with offshore workers; Chorus to transform NZ telecoms infrastructure in AlcaLu deal; Huawei Consumer Business Group on target to ship 100 million units by year end; Presto tips up on Telstra TV; Boost $40 UNLTD plan goes 11GB via weekends; Dr Alan Finkel appointed as next Chief Scientist.

CommsWire - 23 October 2015

Regional Australia needs urgent nbn attention: report; Competition watchdog clears way for Foxtel, Ten acquisitions; Microsoft strikes major deal with NSW Government; Telstra HFC boost coming with Arris kit; From hours to minutes: Increased response from emergency warnings in NZ; Brocade joins NGMN alliance; France gets 100G optical fibre network into homes.

CommsWire - 22 October 2015

Alcatel-Lucent trials G.fast for nbn; nbn ordered $14 million of copper for 1800 km of FttN rollout; Vodafone decries lack of competition: digital future threatened; Inmarsat delivering in-flight connectivity to Lufthansa; Wham, bam, Telstra slam: Kogan responds to ?Telstra and Kogan? statement; SOTI signs Beachley as APAC MD.

CommsWire - 20 October 2015

Data Retention compliance could pass to consumers as tax impost: IA; ECONOMUSE: USO levy study ? Final Paper; Kogan Mobile is back via Vodafone at competitive prices; Coles joins prepaid mobile market; Telecommunications for NT remote communities on the improve; Magna hires the King of RF; eftpos partners with Bell ID for new Australian mobile payments capability.

CommsWire - 16 October 2015

NBN promises 9.5 million connections by 2018 in new plan; Melbourne City Loop phone coverage now activated; AR wearable computing glasses to replace smartphones and tablets; Nokia merger to create: $900 million cost synergies, 5G Labs; Adtran, Comptel collaborate on broadband; Telstra TV streamer coming 27 October for $109; Telstra, ISGM seal new deal.

CommsWire - 15 October 2015

Telco coalition slams Telstra over reaction to drop in access charges; Greg Adcock exiting NBN; NBN rollout ramping up but a broken promise is a broken promise; Platform-as-a-Service adoption on the rise; Nexon partners with Alcatel-Lucent on enterprise cloud services; The expanded arrangement means that effective on Wednesday, Nexon began offering businesses the Alcatel-Lucent OpenTouch Enterprise Cloud (OTEC) communications technologies in Australia.; Vodafone?s going Voice over LTE, or VoLTE...

CommsWire - 14 October 2015

ACCAN: Poorly served areas a priority; The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) has made better communications services for poorly served areas a priority for the next 12 months.; Multi-vendor Solution Outlines NFV Path for Telcos; Mobile banking to exceed 1B users before 2016, 2B by 2020; Kawaguchi Turns to Brocade for Citywide Municipal Ethernet Fabric; LogMeIn agrees deal to acquire LastPass; New research shows more than half of operators plan to deploy carrier-grade Wi-...

CommsWire - 12 October 2015

The numbers are in and not looking good for Foxtel; Win for telcos with drop in Telstra access charges; Numbers down but thousands still hit the complaints lines to telcos; Telstra's new executive team in place; Sony?s premium Z5 comes in three sizes and many finishes ? first looks

CommsWire - 9 October 2015

Telstra continues push into health care with new acquisition; The ACMA hits non-compliant telecommunications providers ? again!; Skype apologises for 21 Sept outage, offers free call time; Superloop shelling out $5.8 million for APEXnetworks; Virgin Mobile pops out free 1GB bonus streaming data with Guvera; 4G Americas publishes new details on 5G technology requirements; Inmarsat?s Pacific endeavour ensured critical comms in military exercise.

CommsWire - 8 October 2015

ABS June 2015 stats show SVOD spurred massive downloads increase; Is Telstra the bully or is it just the tragedy of the commons?; Ruckus unleashes superior yet simplified Wi-Fi for small biz; Strong compliance by industry with telco consumer code; Siemens, Cohda Wireless collaborate on smart infrastructure; Kenton Group to launch ?fibre-free? ultrafast 320Mbps broadband in Europe; Inmarsat selects Cobham SATCOM for terminal build.