CommsWire daily newsletter - 2 October 2020

Wholesale mobile voice services to cost less from next year A decision by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to cut the price of the Mobile Terminating Access Service from 1 January 2021 from 1.7 cents per minute to 1.19 cents per minute will bring down the wholesale price of mobile voice services.

CommsWire daily newsletter - 30 July 2020

Consumers shift to online purchases of smartphones due to pandemic Data, insights and consulting firm Kantar says smartphone purchasing has shifted to online channels during the coronavirus pandemic, with nearly two-thirds of sales in the second quarter of 2020 coming from digital buys, up 11% year-on-year in Germany, the UK, Spain, Italy, France, the US and Japan.

CommsWire - 11 June 2019

Energy firm AGL seeks to buy Vocus for $3b Vocus Communications has received another takeover offer, this time from AGL Energy, which has made a bid to buy all the shares in the company for $4.85 a share, meaning that the total bid would come to a shade over $3 billion.

CommsWire - 22 January 2019

MyRepublic discounts 100Mbps plans after NBN Co pushes speed tier Small ISP MyRepublic has announced a new push to sell 100Mbps plans, with a discounted plan of $79.95, a drop of $10 from existing prices, for an unspecified limited period.

CommsWire - 2 October 2018

Australia bid to push Huawei out of PNG cable project Australia, along with Japan and the US, is once again trying to elbow out Chinese telecommunications company Huawei from building a cable system, this time an internal one in Papua New Guinea.

CommsWire - 23 July 2018

Telstra, Optus get low ranking on consumer customer service scorecard Australia’s two biggest telcos — Telstra and Optus — fared poorly in a survey of Australian telecommunications consumers who say they are unimpressed by the amount of time they spend getting a resolution to a telco issue.

CommsWire - 18 July 2018

MyRepublic launches new broadband plans for Australian small businesses NBN-loving ISP MyRepublic has finally launched plans specifically for small businesses in Australia, marking the company's expansion beyond consumer NBN plans since launching in November 2016.

CommsWire - 23 November 2017

Telstra CTO names security as top enterprise technology trend in 2018 Cyber security, real time analytics, containers and microservices, digital team collaboration and a digital twin are the trends, so how does CTO H?kan Eriksson explain how businesses of all sizes will feel the effects of these technologies?

CommsWire - 20 November 2017

Rudd blames News Corp ties for 'sub-standard' Coalition NBN Former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd claims the Coalition Government changed its NBN policy to ensure "a sub-standard network" due to its "cosy relationship" with the Rupert Murdoch-owned News Corporation.

CommsWire - 25 October 2017

Vocus readying New Zealand business for sale The Vocus Group has decided to get its New Zealand operations ready for sale and is finalising the appointment of advisers, the company said on Monday.