Broadband News
Tue, 19th Aug 2025
iiNet suffers cyber incident in order management system breach
iiNet’s order management system has been breached by an unknown third party, with both current and historical customers affected.
Source: ARN
NZ authorities' warning over Aussie's controversial 'ethical' internet
New Zealand's financial watchdog has issued a warning about an embattled internet scheme founded by an Australian with a colourful past.
Source: ABC News
Telstra tapped for rural and remote AusPost Starlink rollout
Telstra has partnered with Australia Post to roll out SpaceX’s Starlink-powered satellite services to 270 post offices in rural remote locations nation-wide.
Source: ARN
Mon, 18th Aug 2025
TPG Telecom reveals iiNet order management system breached
TPG Telecom has revealed that iiNet’s order management system was breached by an unknown attacker who abused legitimate credentials to gain access.
Source: iTnews Australia
Google faces $55m fine over Telstra, Optus search deals
Google is facing Federal Court proceedings and a $55 million fine over historical agreements struck with Telstra and Optus to put Google Search on Android phones sold by the telcos.
Source: iTnews Australia
Wed, 13th Aug 2025
Is Perplexity’s $34 billion offer to buy Chrome real or a marketing stunt?
AI startup Perplexity has sent Google/Alphabet an offer to buy Chrome for $34.5 billion.
Source: Computerworld
Breaking: Telstra outage wipes out telecommunication in southern NSW
The issue is affecting about 100 base stations and thousands of customers.
Source: ABC News
Tue, 12th Aug 2025
NBN Co to reach 10 million premises with top tier by end 2025
Australian government owned broadband wholesaler NBN Co says it will enable more than 10 million fixed line premises to access its top speed tier by the end of 2025.
Source: iTWire
Apple, Google lose out to Fortnite developer in landmark ruling
The judgment could reshape digital app stores and also lead to one of the largest class action payouts in Australian history.
Source: SMH
NBN Co weaves AI and automation into its operational "fabric"
NBN Co is embedding AI and automation “into the fabric of [its] operations”, with tools already live for design, support and knowledge access, and spending in the tens of millions.
Source: iTnews Australia
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