News
Data Retention compliance could pass to consumers as tax impost: IA; ECONOMUSE: USO levy study ? Final Paper; Kogan Mobile is back via Vodafone at competitive prices; Coles joins prepaid mobile market; Telecommunications for NT remote communities on the improve; Magna hires the King of RF; eftpos partners with Bell ID for new Australian mobile payments capability.
20th October 2015
NBN plan welcomed, but more information wanted; NBN: 9.5 mill premised by 2018 feasible or an empty promise?; Mobile roaming charges: shock research; Optus beats rival TPG and iiNet for Netflix speed; Melbourne beachgoers to enjoy free wi-fi; Yahoo?s new email app marks 18 years of email service.
19th October 2015
NBN promises 9.5 million connections by 2018 in new plan; Melbourne City Loop phone coverage now activated; AR wearable computing glasses to replace smartphones and tablets; Nokia merger to create: $900 million cost synergies, 5G Labs; Adtran, Comptel collaborate on broadband; Telstra TV streamer coming 27 October for $109; Telstra, ISGM seal new deal.
16th October 2015
Telco coalition slams Telstra over reaction to drop in access charges; Greg Adcock exiting NBN; NBN rollout ramping up but a broken promise is a broken promise; Platform-as-a-Service adoption on the rise; Nexon partners with Alcatel-Lucent on enterprise cloud services; The expanded arrangement means that effective on Wednesday, Nexon began offering businesses the Alcatel-Lucent OpenTouch Enterprise Cloud (OTEC) communications technologies in Australia.; Vodafone?s going Voice over LTE, or VoLTE, in December, to postpaid customers initially on the Samsung Galaxy S6, S6 Edge, S6 Edge+ and Note 5.; UltraServe hits a high note with Aussie, global sales.
15th October 2015
ACCAN: Poorly served areas a priority; The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) has made better communications services for poorly served areas a priority for the next 12 months.; Multi-vendor Solution Outlines NFV Path for Telcos; Mobile banking to exceed 1B users before 2016, 2B by 2020; Kawaguchi Turns to Brocade for Citywide Municipal Ethernet Fabric; LogMeIn agrees deal to acquire LastPass; New research shows more than half of operators plan to deploy carrier-grade Wi-Fi; Enterprises reap benefits of interconnection.
14th October 2015
Service providers not ready for data retention yet: survey; Last minute call on Data Retention Act from Internet Australia; Consumers wait to see if phone, Internet charges will drop; Alcatel-Lucent?s IoT Blueprint to create a smarter world; Tomizone banks 200 bank branches into growing retail WiFi network.
13th October 2015
The numbers are in and not looking good for Foxtel; Win for telcos with drop in Telstra access charges; Numbers down but thousands still hit the complaints lines to telcos; Telstra's new executive team in place; Sony?s premium Z5 comes in three sizes and many finishes ? first looks
12th October 2015
Telstra continues push into health care with new acquisition; The ACMA hits non-compliant telecommunications providers ? again!; Skype apologises for 21 Sept outage, offers free call time; Superloop shelling out $5.8 million for APEXnetworks; Virgin Mobile pops out free 1GB bonus streaming data with Guvera; 4G Americas publishes new details on 5G technology requirements; Inmarsat?s Pacific endeavour ensured critical comms in military exercise.
9th October 2015
ABS June 2015 stats show SVOD spurred massive downloads increase; Is Telstra the bully or is it just the tragedy of the commons?; Ruckus unleashes superior yet simplified Wi-Fi for small biz; Strong compliance by industry with telco consumer code; Siemens, Cohda Wireless collaborate on smart infrastructure; Kenton Group to launch ?fibre-free? ultrafast 320Mbps broadband in Europe; Inmarsat selects Cobham SATCOM for terminal build.
8th October 2015
Notice of TelSoc 2015 AGM and presentation by Gavin Williams, nbn Executive General Manager - New Developments, Wireless & Satellite. He will talk about nbn's SkyMuster satellite service and plans for the future.
7th October 2015