Broadband News
Sun, 10th Aug 2025
Australian businesses leverage 5G to unlock their full potential
Misconceptions around the cost of deploying and maintaining 5G Wireless Wide Area Networks (WWANs) are stopping Australian businesses from embracing 5G to power disruptive technologies and drive innovation.
Source: iTnews Australia
Fri, 08th Aug 2025
The NBN is getting its biggest upgrade ever. Most people have no idea
Fairly or not, Australia’s NBN has long been the butt of jokes, ranking below Nicaragua and Venezuela for download speeds. That’s about to change.
Source: SMH
Privacy watchdog sues Optus over mass data breach
The telco is facing Federal Court action over a cyberattack that affected some 10 million Australians.
Source: SMH
Optus to answer privacy court case stemming from 2022 data breach
Optus is set to face a privacy lawsuit stemming from its 2022 data breach, with Federal Court proceedings filed by the Australian Information Commissioner.
Source: iTnews Australia
Tue, 05th Aug 2025
AI crawlers vs. web defenses: Cloudflare-Perplexity fight reveals cracks in internet trust
A public war of words has erupted between cloud infrastructure leader Cloudflare and AI search company Perplexity, with both sides making serious allegations about each other’s technical competence in a dispute that industry analysts say exposes fundamental flaws in how enterprises protect content from AI data collection.
Source: Computerworld
Cloudflare and Perplexity slug it out over alleged AI bot block evasion
Is it deceptive, standards-violating content scraping or a security and internet infrastructure company on a crusade against artificial intelligence startups?
Source: iTnews Australia
NBN Co snubs Musk, inks satellite deal with Bezos’ Amazon
The US tech giant will provide high-speed broadband to hundreds of thousands of Australian users from next year.
Source: SMH
NBN Co picks Amazon’s Project Kuiper for LEO satellite broadband
NBN Co has signed an agreement with Amazon to utilise its low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite technology from the tech giant’s Project Kuiper.
Source: ARN
NBN Co signs on to Amazon's Project Kuiper as Sky Muster replacement
NBN Co will offer users in its Sky Muster footprint an upgrade path to low earth orbit satellite services powered by Amazon Kuiper sometime before its current satellites reach end-of-life.
Source: iTnews Australia
Mon, 04th Aug 2025
Google agrees to curb power use for AI data centres
Google has signed agreements with two US electric utilities to reduce its AI data centre power consumption during times of surging demand on the grid when energy-intensive AI use outpaces power supplies.
Source: iTnews Australia
There’s a good reason why the social media ban won’t work, and the government knows it
Children will always find a way to circumnavigate your online roadblocks because they know the terrain better than you.
Source: SMH
Sat, 02nd Aug 2025
Vocus A$5.25B acquisition of TPG’s fibre and EGW business completed
Australian telecoms network infrastructure provider Vocus has completed its acquisition of operator TPG Telecom's fibre assets and Enterprise, Government and Wholesale (EGW) business for A$5.25 billion.
Source: iTWire
Thu, 31st Jul 2025
Optus goes with Google Cloud for agentic AI
Optus has created an agentic AI tool designed to assist its existing frontline staff with real-time intelligence to deliver a streamlined customer experience.
Source: ARN
Tue, 29th Jul 2025
Australia adds YouTube to social media ban for children
Australia will include YouTube in its world-first ban on social media for teenagers, reversing an earlier decision to exempt the video-sharing platform.
Source: iTnews Australia
Microsoft is turning Edge into an AI browser
Experimental AI browsers are previewing new ways of browsing the internet and Microsoft this week joined the fray.
Source: Computerworld
Fri, 25th Jul 2025
Starlink satellites disrupting astronomy radio quiet zone, study finds
Global satellite internet service Starlink could interfere with the world's largest radio telescope being built in Western Australia's Murchison, a new study reveals.
Source: ABC News
Thu, 24th Jul 2025
NBN Co to axe millions of useless planned outage notifications
NBN users and retailers may soon get a reprieve from the firehose of planned outage notifications they receive, starting with the removal of 120,000 notifications a month for outages that never happen.
Source: iTnews Australia
More internet users in the US are ditching Google search for ChatGPT
Using OpenAI’s ChatGPT instead of Google’s search engine is becoming more common in the US, according to a new survey of 1,000 people by Adobe Express. More than three-quarters (77%) of respondents say they use ChatGPT for searches — and 25% have it as their first choice.
Source: Computerworld
Wed, 23rd Jul 2025
NBN Co's new push for 1 million premises to make fibre switch
NBN Co is set to allow over 1 million premises with problem copper lines to upgrade to fibre without buying a more expensive plan, marking a significant evolution of its proactive conversion program.
Source: iTnews Australia
Mon, 21st Jul 2025
Dicker Data to resell Optus mobile services to Australian businesses
Australian technology distributor Dicker Data has selected telecoms provider Optus for a strategic partnership that will make Dicker Data the first distributor to offer mobile services in Australia.
Source: iTWire
Thu, 17th Jul 2025
Cloudflare makes changes to avoid repeat of 1.1.1.1 DNS outage
Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare is making changes to avoid a repeat of a service outage that took down its popular 1.1.1.1 domain name system (DNS) resolver, affecting users globally.
Source: iTnews Australia
Wed, 16th Jul 2025
Telstra warns network upgrade funds being eaten up by compliance costs
Telstra has warned escalating compliance costs are eating into funds better spent on network upgrades.
Source: iTnews Australia
Mon, 14th Jul 2025
Optus consortium to build and launch sovereign LEO satellite
A consortium led by Australian telco Optus has announced it will build, launch and operate a sovereign Australian Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite, scheduled to go live in 2028.
Source: iTWire
ACMA flags changes to SMS ID Register to stop scam messages
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has made major changes to rules governing Australia’s SMS ID Register in an effort to eliminate scam messages, which will take effect from 15 December 2025.
Source: iTWire
Optus-led consortium to launch and operate sovereign LEO satellite
A consortium led by Optus is set to build, launch, and operate a sovereign low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite by 2028.
Source: ARN
Sun, 13th Jul 2025
ACCC ruling exempts small superfast broadband providers from functional separation
Small fixed-line superfast broadband providers in Australia will be able to operate as both wholesalers and retailers concurrently without functionally separating under a new determination by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).
Source: iTWire
Wed, 09th Jul 2025
Telstra to axe 550 roles including in enterprise business
Telstra plans to lay off 550 employees as part of an ongoing overhaul of its enterprise business and structural changes across other parts of the organisation.
Source: iTnews Australia
Tue, 01st Jul 2025
Elon Musk’s X wins ‘free speech’ fight against eSafety Commissioner
A court has overruled the eSafety Commissioner’s order to Elon Musk to remove a post on his app X, which attacked an Australian trans rights activist.
Source: SMH
Sun, 29th Jun 2025
TPG packet core decommissioning caused emergency call issues
TPG Telecom’s planned decommissioning of its older 4G packet core network mid-last year caused some customers to lose the ability to make emergency calls, the regulator has found.
Source: iTnews Australia
Wed, 18th Jun 2025
Optus faces $100m penalty in sales tactics case
Optus Mobile could be penalised $100 million after some of its licensees engated in pressure sales tactics to sell expensive phones and services to hundreds of vulnerable consumers.
Source: iTnews Australia