The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission has walked away from the Federal Court with another shiner after its case alleging misleading and deceptive conduct against mobile provider TPG's prepaid fee slugs was dismissed with costs.
Source: iTnews Australia
A legal challenge by the ACCC against TPG Telecom over alleged misleading conduct relating to a $20 ‘prepayment’ fee has been dismissed.
Source: ARN
Lobby group Internet Australia has told the Australian Government it is “deeply concerned” over its request to Facebook to halt plans to introduce strong end-to-end encryption in its messaging systems.
Source: iTWire
Vocus CEO Kevin Russell has hit out at the National Broadband Network (NBN) for the tactics it has used to ramp up its number of enterprise customers, calling on the government to hand the national wholesaler a new statement of expectations.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Telstra-owned Belong is setting up an intelligent automation guild to power an expansion of the technology across the organisation.
Source: iTnews Australia
Vocus chief executive Kevin Russell has called on the government to issue a new statement of expectations for NBN Co on how it should behave in the enterprise market.
Source: iTnews Australia
Vodafone Australia is proposing cuts of 130 roles at its Hobart contact centre under a restructure.
Source: iTnews Australia
The ACCC has formally warned NBN Co for offering materially different commercial terms to different RSPs and giving preferential treatment to Macquarie Telecom.
Source: ARN
The Australian competition watchdog has warned NBN Co, the company rolling out broadband in the country, about discriminating between retail service providers when it comes to supplying upgraded infrastructure to business customers.
Source: iTWire
Telstra will shut down its 3G network in June 2024 amid efforts to free up infrastructure and bandwidth resources to ramp up its 4G and 5G presence.
Source: ARN
Australia's incumbent telco Telstra has announced it is planning to switch off its 3G network in June 2024 and refarm the spectrum for its 5G network.
Source: ZDNet Australia
NBN Co is hoping to add a “tool, firmware agent, or feature” to wi-fi gateways in selected people’s homes to collect telemetry that can help it troubleshoot the in-home portion of internet connections.
Source: iTnews Australia
Aussie Broadband already processes automatically almost 90% of its residential and small business NBN orders, and is now extending this capability to enterprise NBN services.
Source: iTWire
Internet providers are starting to move 151,000 users from the old NBN 50Mbps fixed wireless product to a new “best effort” service, but some customers will get more constrained uplink speeds from day one.
Source: iTnews Australia
Two in five Australians (46%) are interested in connecting their tablets to mobile networks, especially if it can be connected using a mobile data sharing plan, according to a new forecast from technology analyst firm Telsyte.
Source: iTWire
Passengers on the Spirit of Tasmania ferry service between Devonport and Melbourne now have access to high-speed internet, with a partnership by the ferry operators with Australian satellite internet provider, IPSTAR Broadband.
Source: iTWire
NBN Co is hoping to encourage more businesses to switch to its enterprise products by lowering their connection costs from Wednesday this week.
Source: iTnews Australia
Commuters should start to notice isolated improvements to mobile coverage along the NSW Central Coast rail corridor, with the first stretches of track now fitted with new mobile base stations and free station wi-fi.
Source: iTnews Australia
Bad news everyone, Netflix is getting more expensive in Australia. The streaming giant today increased its Premium plan pricing from $17.99 per month to $19.99 per month. Mercifully, pricing hasn't changed on Netflix's Basic and Standard plans, which are still $9.99 and $13.99 per month, respectively.
Source: WhistleOut
Spark New Zealand has announced that Telstra now holds 25 per cent of shares in the Southern Cross NEXT.
Source: ARN