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  Aussie Broadband 4Q FY21 trading update Over the quarter, Aussie Broadband has grown connections and revenue and expects EBITDA for the year excluding IPO costs to be at the upper end of the guidance provided on 28 May 2021 ($17 million to $20 million).

2nd August 2021

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NBN Co awards contracts for FTTP upgrades NBN Co has awarded around $1.1 million worth of construction contracts as part of the $2.9 billion plan to upgrade large parts of the fibre to the node (FTTN) network to fibre to the premises (FTTP). Overcoming the impacts of robocalling A Juniper Research whitepaper created with Neustar covers the state of the market and how to solve the challenges of unwanted robocalling.

15th July 2021

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TIO investigation finds poor sales practices, hidden costs and unclear information affecting telco consumers The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman’s (TIO) latest systemic investigation report "reveals the problems with telco sales practices that can lead to consumers signing up for products or services they don’t understand or need."

17th May 2021

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Comms Alliance says 'decreasing rates of telco complaints continue' in latest Q1 2021 report It's reportedly only a "small decrease" in complaint rates, but at least complaints are down, and not up.

14th May 2021

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Telstra and AWS 'join forces on edge computing and take businesses to the cloud' Agreeing to collaborate on multi-access (including 5G) edge computing offerings, Telstra and AWS have signed a strategic agreement "to help organisations accelerate cloud adoption".

27th January 2021

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Today is the last CommsWire newsletter for the year, and we'll return on Monday 11 January 2021 with all the important telecommunications and technology news that you need to know for your business and daily life. Thank you for being a loyal reader and subscriber - we wish you the best for the Christmas and holiday season, and we wish you a very happy 2021!

23rd December 2020

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MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INKS $100M DEAL WITH VIC GOVT FOR AMBULANCE VICTORIA EMERGENCY DATA COMMS SERVICES Comms provider Motorola Solutions has signed a new deal valued at approx. $100 million with the Victorian Government, extending its agreement to provide the government with a dedicated “emergency data communications” managed service for use by Ambulance Victoria.

17th December 2020

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Union criticises NBN Co chief for taking bonus despite cost blowout The union representing workers at the NBN Co has levelled strong criticism at the company over the fact that chief executive Stephen Rue has given himself a $1.2 million bonus while overseeing a cost blowout of $6.7 billion and not taken 300,000 premises into account in the rollout plan.

16th November 2020

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Akamai says it mitigated largest PPS attack DDoS Content delivery network Akamai says it has mitigated the largest packet per second distributed denial of service attack recorded on its platform, with the attack generating 809 million packets per second and targeting a large European bank.

26th June 2020

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NBN downloads set new baseline record NBN Co has revealed that download throughput reached a new high in the week of 27 April 2020 with evening downloads on the NBN between 27 April and 3 May 2020 clocked at 26% higher than the pre-COVID baseline.

7th May 2020