Broadband News
Thu, 13th Nov 2025
Australia's AUKUS base to connect to subsea cables
Australia's AUKUS submarine fleet base and its vicinity are being quietly connected to three powerful new undersea internet cables planned by Google and SUBCO, documents viewed by Reuters show.
Source: iTnews Australia
HCF chases near real-time intelligence on members' digital experience
Health insurer HCF intends to use a suite of monitoring tools to finetune its digital experience, with the aim of being alerted “the minute a member’s having a bad experience”.
Source: iTnews Australia
Meta, Microsoft respond to government’s rebooted news tax
The tech giants have reacted to the push for them to hand over millions of dollars from their domestic revenue to local media companies, or pay a higher amount in financial penalties.
Source: SMH
Tue, 11th Nov 2025
ACMA altering outage data handling as public register nears
The communications regulator will "refine" its procedures for handling increasing volumes of carrier outage notification data as it prepares for the arrival of the Triple Zero Guardian and the incoming public outage register.
Source: iTnews Australia
Mon, 10th Nov 2025
Commercial spyware targeted Samsung Galaxy users for months
Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 division have documented a previously unknown Android commercial spyware that exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Samsung devices throughout 2024 and early 2025.
Source: iTnews Australia
Wed, 05th Nov 2025
Which social media apps will ban Australian users under-16?
Nine platform are included in Australia's world-first social media ban for under 16s next month, however the regulator warns that list could grow.
Source: ABC News
Australia includes Reddit, Kick in teen social media ban
Australia's internet watchdog has widened its world-first teen social media ban to include Reddit and video live streaming platform Kick, and said more sites could be added if their main role was to enable online social interaction.
Source: iTnews Australia
Tue, 04th Nov 2025
Samsung triple zero handset firmware mystery deepens
The mystery over how 71 Samsung mobile phones were delivered to Australian consumers with firmware problems that might leave users high and dry when trying to make distress calls has deepened.
Source: iTnews Australia
Mon, 03rd Nov 2025
Optus takes on 450 staff to address triple zero crisis
Optus chief Stephen Rue has introduced drastic changes across the telco’s call centre and network management divisions in a bid to address the carrier’s triple zero service failures and stave off calls for his resignation.
Source: iTnews Australia
Savaged Optus boss faces claims of misleading Senate
The telco will add 300 people to its Australian call centres and will on-shore its network operations in response to the fatal network failure.
Source: SMH
Sun, 02nd Nov 2025
Optus fast-tracks network operations insourcing from Nokia
Optus has revealed that it will accelerate plans bring network functions currently outsourced to Nokia back in-house in response to September's triple zero outage on its network.
Source: iTnews Australia
Thu, 30th Oct 2025
Aussie Broadband launches Fortinet-powered SASE offering
Aussie Broadband has released a fully managed secure access service edge (SASE) solution which was created in partnership with Fortinet.
Source: ARN
Tue, 28th Oct 2025
Amazon to cut about 14,000 corporate jobs in AI push
Amazon will reduce its global corporate workforce by about 14,000 people, with more cuts expected next year, in a major shakeup driven in part by adoption of artificial intelligence at the tech giant.
Source: iTnews Australia
The $4.1 million question: How did the BOM get its new website so wrong?
The Bureau of Meteorology claims it spent the amount on a website and app redesign as part of a broader $866 million transformation dubbed “Robust”. Users are not pleased.
Source: SMH
Google's Tabua cable to be covered by extended Sydney protection zone
Google’s Tabua submarine cable will now land in a designated protection zone in Sydney’s south after the communications regulator agreed to expand the zone boundaries.
Source: iTnews Australia
Panic as breached details of 183m accounts, including Gmail, emerge
The news isn’t nearly as bad as some online would have you believe, but it’s always a good idea to check your security.
Source: SMH
Fri, 24th Oct 2025
AWS outage caused by "unlikely interaction" between automated systems
The Amazon Web Services outage in North Virginia was caused by a software bug in an automated DNS management system that caused one automated component to delete another’s work.
Source: iTnews Australia
ACMA rejects draft consumer code as calls to end self-regulation grow louder
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has accused carriers of taking a weak stance when it comes to safeguarding the interests of Australian telecommunications consumers.
Source: iTnews Australia
Telstra finds firmware locked Samsung handsets to Vodafone for Triple-0 calls
Australian users of about 70 dated Samsung handsets face being cut off from mobile service due to problems with their devices’ firmware, which exclusively attempts to route Triple Zero calls to the shuttered Vodafone 3G network.
Source: iTnews Australia
Thu, 23rd Oct 2025
Vocus scores three new federal government contracts
The federal government has awarded Vocus three telecommunications contracts valued at around $6 million over the next three years.
Source: iTnews Australia
Optus brings in ex-NBN Co CIO to run technology
Optus’ chief information officer of four years Mark Potter will leave the telco in March of next year to make way for NBN Co’s veteran IT chief, John McInerney.
Source: iTnews Australia
Wed, 22nd Oct 2025
ACMA cracks down on mobile 000 'camp-on' failures
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has tightened mobile phone testing standards and imposed new network equipment monitoring rules on carriers as the fallout over recent emergency call failures continues.
Source: iTnews Australia
Tue, 21st Oct 2025
This ChatGPT browser is genuinely impressive. Will anyone actually use it?
OpenAI’s AI-powered browser can book holidays and build shopping lists while you browse. But it’s competing against the most stubborn force in tech: user habits.
Source: SMH
Telstra completes one-third of national fibre rollout
Telstra has completed one-third of the rollout of a new national fibre network that it is now branding as 'Aura'.
Source: iTnews Australia
‘They’re watching’: How Monday’s internet crash became China’s training
Trump’s former cyber boss warns China and criminals are studying internet crashes such as the AWS outage to launch devastating strikes on Australia.
Source: SMH
Telstra’s Aura Network to add AUD $29 billion to Australia’s GDP as Sydney-Melbourne route opens
Telstra has activated the Sydney-Melbourne coastal leg of its new fibre network, now called the Aura network, a critical milestone in Telstra’s $1.6 billion investment aimed at powering Australia’s digital future.
Source: iTWire
Telstra activates new $1.6B fibre coastal link Aura Network
Telstra has unveiled the next iteration of its $1.6 billion fibre network – a Sydney to Melbourne coastal route and a rebranding from Intercity Fibre Network to Aura Network.
Source: ARN
Why one company’s glitch just broke half the internet
When Amazon sneezes, the world catches a cold. It’s time we stopped accepting that as normal.
Source: SMH
Mon, 20th Oct 2025
Internet still struggling after mammoth Amazon outage
Amazon’s cloud arm is still struggling to recover after a major cloud services outage impacted the likes of Canva, Roblox, Snapchat, Amazon and other companies globally, including in Australia, affecting millions of users and effectively bringing the internet to a standstill.
Source: SMH
Major AWS outage disrupts apps and services worldwide
Network connectivity issues in AWS' US-EAST-1 facility have caused widespread outages affecting thousands of websites along with some of the world's most popular apps - Snapchat and Reddit - and disrupted businesses globally.
Source: iTnews Australia