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While 4G was about offering increased capacity and speeds for data-hungry users, vendors, telcos, and regulators are working to ensure that 5G is all about coping with the rise of connected machines.
Source: ZDNet Australia
The average real prices of landline and mobile voice calls have fallen by around 50% since 1997-98, comms prices were down 2.7% in 2013-14.
Source: iTWire
Telstra will allow its customers to access the metadata the telco stores on them for a fee ranging upwards from $25.
Source: iTnews Australia
The price of mobile, broadband and fixed-line voice services is continuing to decline in Australia, while the cost of plans for the national broadband network increases, the competition regulator has revealed.
Source: iTnews Australia
Australia's largest telco will allow its customers to access the metadata they generate. Telstra said this morning that its customers will get the same access to their personal data that law enforcement organisations could request from the telco.
Source: Computerworld
Search giant Google shook up the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona this week when the company officially confirmed that it intends to sell mobile data plans in the US. The question is whether Google will join other MVNOs, such as Boost, Amaysim and Aldi, and sell cut price mobile plans in Australia.
Source: iTWire
Law enforcement agencies may be required to treat journalists’ metadata with special care under the federal government’s controversial data retention scheme.
Source: iTnews Australia
The parliamentary committee inquiring into the laws allowing Australian government agencies to block websites has received calls for an independent party to oversee the scheme.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Technology and innovation will be at the centre of Australia's continued productivity over the next 40 years, according to the Treasury Department's latest Intergenerational Report.
Source: ZDNet Australia
The 5G hype machine hit a fever pitch this week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, but wireless services based on the still-to-be-formalised wireless standard are not expected to launch in any markets until 2020 at the earliest.
Source: Computerworld
Telstra is one of the few vendors to join a new group of telco vendors, mobile operators, content providers and device manufacturers to share best practices in LTE Broadcast.
Source: iTWire
The Australian government's proposed legislation to establish a children's e-safety commissioner in a bid to help combat online bullying has passed the Senate.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Unlike last December, when the total Australian online retail sales index reached 11.9 percent year on year, the total online retail sales index for January 2015 was more subdued, due to a slowdown in domestic sales.
Source: ZDNet Australia
By the end of March, NBN Co will launch its fibre co-contribution and fibre-on-demand products, Senator Mitch Fifield has said.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott wants the government's proposed mandatory data-retention scheme passed into law this week.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Labor leader Bill Shorten today told journalists there were some issues with the government's proposed data retention legislation but none of them "are too hard to work out".
Source: Computerworld
5G should go 100 times faster than 4G, connect 1,000 times as many devices and carry 1,000 times as much traffic in a given area, a European Commission group says.
Source: ARN
Telstra CEO David Thodey has said the incumbent has maintained its leadership position in mobile technology advances through risk-taking, and putting its investments on the line.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Optus has used the Mobile World Congress to announce a planned extension to its Cash by Optus mobile payments system which includes a credit card on a smartphone.
Source: iTWire
