Broadband News
Wed, 20th Jun 2018
Telstra to deploy 5G in three phases
Telstra is planning to deploy its 5G network in three tranches with “full commercial deployment” expected in FY20.
Source: iTnews Australia
Telstra's big bang splits the company in two as 8,000 jobs go. Will it work?
Telstra chief executive Andy Penn has detonated a hand grenade with plans to cut 8,000 jobs and slash the business in two, but the full impact of the changes won't be known until well after the dust has settled, writes Stephen Letts.
Source: ABC News
Telstra share price slides on massive restructure
Telstra’s drastic plan to cut 9500 jobs and restructure its business has seen its share price slide five percent and led to a wave of criticism.
Source: iTnews Australia
Telstra completely changes how it sells enterprise services
Telstra is set to automate as much of the provisioning of business services as possible, revealing a new suite called ‘connected workplace’ that can be consumed on a cloud-like basis.
Source: iTnews Australia
Telstra cuts show public services must stay public: Greens
Telstra's announcement that its plan to cut 8000 jobs by 2022 will improve customer service has been labelled as "nonsense" by the Australian Greens.
Source: iTWire
Inside Telstra's new infrastructure business plans
Telstra has announced plans to create a new standalone infrastructure business, Telstra InfraCo, as part of the telco's 2022 strategy.
Source: ARN
Telstra to be network-ready for 5G by first-half FY19
Telstra aims to be ready to take advantage of the 5G market, saying it will be network-ready by the first half of FY19 and rolling out to capital cities, regional centres and other high-demand areas by FY20.
Source: iTWire
'We are creating a new Telstra': 8,000 jobs slashed but shares slammed
Telstra says 8,000 employee and contractor positions will be cut as it targets $2.5 billion in cost cutting by the 2022 financial year, but investors are not impressed by falling profits, sending the company's shares down 7 per cent.
Source: ABC News
Tue, 19th Jun 2018
Telstra confirms outage for some customers, but says 'no issue' with 3G and 4G networks
Thousands of Australians had trouble making calls or using mobile data on Monday and Tuesday, with Telstra pointing to an issue on its wholesale platform.
Source: SMH
Telstra confirms 'intermittent' mobile outages in major cities
Telstra is reporting "intermittent" mobile outages in a number of major cities across Australia.
Source: ABC News
Record turnaround for Foxtel anti-piracy injunction
Foxtel has been successful in its Federal Court application to have Australian ISPs block 28 domains linked to 15 online services.
Source: Computerworld
Mon, 18th Jun 2018
Optus gives itself 48 hours to fix World Cup streams
Optus chief executive Allen Lew has pledged multi-device streaming services for the FIFA World Cup 2018 will be restored by the end of Wednesday.
Source: iTnews Australia
SBS to air all World Cup games for next 48 hours after Optus streaming issues
Optus announces all World Cup games will be simulcast on free-to-air SBS for the next 48 hours, after a wave of complaints about its subscription streaming service.
Source: ABC News
Take-up of faster NBN plans increasing, company claims
More customers are switching to faster broadband plans, NBN Co, the company rolling out Australia's national broadband network, claims.
Source: iTWire
Foxtel continues fight against pirates
Foxtel has detailed how around 15 torrenting websites and 10 streaming sites are facilitating the infringement of copyright, including 'Game of Thrones' and 'Grey's Anatomy'.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Optus to shut down its dial-up internet service
Optus is killing off its dial-up internet service, three years after Telstra announced it was retiring its own dial-up services.
Source: iTnews Australia
Huawei hits back as exclusion from Aussie 5G rollouts looms
China's Huawei Technologies has gone on the offensive against Australian claims it poses a security risk.
Source: ARN
Optus suffers World Cup streaming woes
Optus CEO Allen Lew issued an “unreserved” apology to Australian football fans over the weekend as the telco’s live streams of World Cup games kept falling over.
Source: iTnews Australia
ABC digital services would be hit by sell-off: claim
Digital services like the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's iView program, which enables Australians to catch up on viewing programs they have missed, could be affected if the organisation is privatised as called for in a motion by federal council of the Liberal Party on Friday, the Australian Labor Party claims.
Source: iTWire
Almost half of all NBN users now on 50Mbps or faster
Of all NBN users, around 44 percent are now on speeds of 50Mbps and above, with 70 percent of all new customers now ordering across the higher speed tiers.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Has Telstra hit peak pessimism or has it got further to fall?
This week's strategy meeting gives Telstra a chance to arrest its tumbling fortunes and plug its $3bn revenue black hole caused by NBN's roll out, writes Stephen Letts.
Source: ABC News
Top tier NBN uptake continues to grow
The sales of higher-speed wholesale NBN services continue to grow, but fixed-line network congestion also appears to be on the rise.
Source: ARN
NBN closes in on 4 million active services
The latest NBN monthly progress report reveals that as of May some 3.9 million households and businesses had active services on the National Broadband Network.
Source: Computerworld
Sun, 17th Jun 2018
Optus World Cup coverage again breaks down despite CEO's pledge to fix
Hours after Optus chief executive Allen Lew offers an apology for the telco's malfunctioning World Cup coverage and pledges to fix the issues, even more streaming issues render yet another game unwatchable for many.
Source: ABC News
How to fix Optus Sport’s catastrophic attempt at World Cup coverage
Avoid the dreaded #FloptusSport fail. The World Cup only comes once every four years but the long notice hasn’t seemed to give Optus enough time to provide a service that fulfils its one and only job – to display the World Cup on its World Cup app.
Source: iTWire
Fri, 15th Jun 2018
Optus leaves football fans raging as World Cup streaming fails to deliver
Having settled in to watch the first full night of World Cup action, Australian football fans are left raging at Optus as the telco's exclusive stream of Russia 2018 fails to deliver.
Source: ABC News
More than 1,000 buildings signed up to Adelaide's gigabit fibre network
More than 1,000 buildings have registered with Ten Gigabit Adelaide in order to get connected to the fibre-optic network being rolled out by TPG Telecom.
Source: ARN
Telstra confirms 2Gbps-capable 4G mobile network deployment this year
Telstra has reiterated its plans to begin deploying 2 Gbps-enabled 4G network technology later this year.
Source: ARN
Telstra edges closer to 2Gbps peak speeds for 4G
Telstra is set to bring 2Gbps theoretical peak speeds to “high traffic” portions of its LTE network later this year.
Source: iTnews Australia
Thu, 14th Jun 2018
Labor endorses possible Huawei 5G ban as repeating its NBN ban
As the party in power when Huawei was banned from being involved in Australia's NBN, Shadow Minister for Defence Richard Marles has given a thumbs up to talk of the Chinese telecommunications giant being banned from 5G deployments.
Source: ZDNet Australia