CommsWire daily newsletter - 27 February 2020

Vodafone mobile customer base shrinks, says first 5G site to go live soon Vodafone Hutchison Australia says it will activate its first 5G site within a few weeks even as it released its full-year results for 2019 showing that it lost 275,000 mobile customers in 2019. The first lot of 5G sites are likely to be in and around Parramatta in NSW.

CommsWire daily newsletter - 13 February 2020

Vodafone Australia - TPG merger cleared to proceed A merger between two of Australia's largest telcos Vodafone Hutchison Australia and TPG Telecom has been given the green light after a successful court challenge to an initial ACCC ruling in regard to 'lessened competition.'

CommsWire daily newsletter - 6 February 2020

Vodafone Australia unveils new leadership pending TPG merger The local office of Vodafone has promoted two key staff members from within to higher senior management positions, but made it clear the appointments are interim pending the Federal Court decision on the VHA merger with TPG.

CommsWire - 18 December 2019

Vodafone significantly less complaints than Telstra and Optus The Communications Alliance has released its "first expanded Complaints in Context report”, showing that for participating service providers in July to September of this year, there were an average 6.8 complaints to the TIO per 10,000 Services in Operation. Vodafone was well below the average number while Telstra and Optus were just above.

CommsWire - 16 July 2019

UK tech panel finds no evidence for complete Huawei ban The British Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee says it has found no evidence to suggest that the complete exclusion of Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies from the UK telecommunications networks would constitute "a proportionate response to the potential security threat posed by foreign suppliers".

CommsWire - 11 July 2019

Comms minister Fletcher says MTM right model for NBN The Coalition Government made the right choice back in 2013 to adopt a multi-technology mix for rolling out the national broadband network, ditching a Labor plan to have fibre to 93% of homes and service the rest through fixed wireless and satellite, Communications Minister Paul Fletcher says.

CommsWire - 5 July 2019

ACMA NBN modem testing shows 5GHz band better for Wi-Fi A test of 43 modems used on fibre-to-the-node and fibre-to-the-building NBN connections indicates that use of the 5GHz band is much better than 2.4GHz when it comes to Wi-Fi throughput.

CommsWire - 31 May 2019

US-China trade war set to hit global smartphone market The global smartphone market faces another challenging year in 2019, with the US-China trade war the factor that will have the biggest say on whether the market returns to growth or not, the research firm IDC says.

CommsWire - 27 May 2019

Vocus gets A$3.3b takeover offer from Swedish equity firm Australia's fourth largest telecommunications company Vocus Communications has advised the ASX that it has received an indicative takeover offer from Swedish private equity firm EQT Infrastructure for A$5.25 per share, valuing the company at A$3.3 billion.

CommsWire - 10 May 2019

NZ fund Infratil in talks to buy Vodafone New Zealand New Zealand infrastructure fund Infratil says it is in talks with the Vodafone Group to buy the company's New Zealand business, along with another unnamed party.