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AIIA urges govt to make changes in encryption law The Federal Government's encryption law in its current form will have a negative impact on the country's ICT industry and block practitioners from innovating and exporting the products of their innovation, the Australian Information Industry Association claims.
20th July 2019
We've had problems with email connections for the last two weeks! We wrongly got labelled as spammers simply for sending out this newsletter every day. This is last Thursday's and I'll try and catch up. If you missed one, please go to: telsoc.org/newsletters/commswire Regards, Tim Herring
19th July 2019
NBN Co says speed trials demonstrate ‘gigabit future’ of HFC network NBN Co, the company building Australia’s broadband access network, says it has achieved trial download speeds of 994Mbps – or 1Gbps – in technology trials on its Hybrid-Fibre Coaxial (HFC) access network.
18th 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".
17th July 2019
Huawei planning big staff cuts in US: report Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies is reportedly planning to lay off a large number of staff from its operations in the US due to its being placed on Washington;'s Entity List which prevents it from using American components unless specific permission is granted.
16th July 2019
Dear TelSoc Member, You have probably noticed we have been having problems with getting CommsWire to you in the last two weeks. This was due to being blacklisted for suspected spam, subsequently found to be in error. Hopefully these problems are behind us and this is Friday's edition - finally!
13th 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.
12th July 2019
Mobile complaints low, voice over NBN complaints high Mobile services have fared best with a low rate of consumer complaints in stark contrast to voice only services delivered by telcos over the NBN which had the highest rate of complaints over a six month period last year, according to a new report from the ACMA.
11th July 2019
NBN Co 'should have supplied modems for all connections' The NBN Co miscalculated when it decided not to supply a modem to each resident on fibre-to-the-node and fibre-to-the-building connections, the head of a small retail service provider says, adding that this could have helped the company diagnose connection issues remotely.
10th July 2019
Cloud provider Vault says tech exports affected by encryption law ASD-certified Protected cloud provider Vault claims the export of its technology has been affected by perceptions about the encryption law which was passed by the Australian Parliament on 6 December last year.
9th July 2019