CommsWire daily newsletter - 9 August 2022

Kenyan telcos agree on mobile termination rate cuts Telecommunication firms have agreed to slash mobile termination rates to Sh0.58 (A$0.007) per minute, giving hopes of cheaper calls for Kenyans amid increased excise duty charges that made voice calls less attractive. Identity check failures cost Circles.Life $300,000

CommsWire daily newsletter - 21 June 2022

Interpol telecoms operation nets hundreds of arrests and US$50 million of scammed funds A worldwide crackdown on online and telecommunications fraud has seen scammers identified globally, tens of millions of dollars of criminal assets seized and new investigative leads triggered in every continent, according to an Interpol report.   Ericsson, Oppo, and Qualcomm successfully trial 5G enterprise network slicing

CommsWire weekly news - 24 April 2015

Privacy and copyright debate rages Hollywood getting tough on ANZ VPN providers Caving to Hollywood national security threat: Coroneos ISOC-AU chief warns on data retention policy ACCAN: remove ambiguity around VPNs Choice slams proposed website blocking law

Metadata Retention and the Internet

The Metadata Retention measures being considered in Australia make some sweeping assumptions about the semantics of IP addresses and their association with individual subscribers to the Internet. But are these assumptions warranted? The exhaustion of the free pool of IPv4 addresses has prompted a new generation of Internet services that treat IP addresses as ephemeral shared conversation tokens, and retaining address use metadata in such an environment is an exercise in futility. The regulatory...

CommsWire daily news - 13 April 2015

Vodafone pushes Stan with free trial offers NBN Co and Telstra settle over $200 million CPI dispute Net users against pirate site blocking and VPN interest soars Network 10 selects Brightcove to power catch up service apps CommBank?s Android Wear app in pilot Netcomm works with Deutsche Telekom on wireless M2M Intelsat chooses Newtec for next generation services

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings shares his thoughts on NBN, data quotas and VPNs in Australia

Reed Hastings discusses why Netflix is coming to Australia. 

CommsWire daily news - 30 January 2015

Public hearings begin on data retention ? why bother? No Choice but to ?HideMyAss? for global and secure content access; Quickflix looking for a way out as Netflix looms; Amazon joins email market with WorkMailFCC warns hotels against blocking guests? Wi-Fi.