Broadband News
Fri, 04th Mar 2022
Telcos working to overcome flooding in NSW, Queensland
Telecommunications carriers are still scrambling to restore tens of thousands of services in South-East Queensland and the NSW Northern Rivers region after floods earlier this week.
Source: iTnews Australia
Thu, 03rd Mar 2022
Optus' 4G home wireless plans just got cheaper in case you're sick of the NBN
Optus has cut the price of its 4G home wireless broadband plans to just $59 which is great news for anyone unhappy with their NBN connection.
Source: WhistleOut
ACCC says Telstra-TPG tie-up 'raises complex issues'
A proposed tie-up between Telstra and TPG “raises complex issues” that will require “close examination”, outgoing ACCC chair Rod Sims has said.
Source: iTnews Australia
Small telcos could get consumer data right exemption
Smaller telcos could be exempt from obligations under Australia’s consumer data right (CDR), if a proposal by Treasury is adopted.
Source: iTnews Australia
Tasmanian outage a reminder that internet networks are fragile
The ubiquity of the mobile internet has had a major impact on our lives, leaving homes and businesses at a loss when there’s an outage.
Source: SMH
Wed, 02nd Mar 2022
Digital Tasmania lobbies gov to support new cable builds
Digital Tasmania has called on the state's government to invest in better connectivity options after cable cuts took much of Tasmania offline on Tuesday.
Source: iTnews Australia
Aussie Broadband calls on IoT vendors to catch up with IPv6
Aussie Broadband’s network engineer John Alexander has criticised vendors, particularly in the Internet of Things space, for being way too slow to support IPv6 in their products.
Source: iTnews Australia
Ukraine asks for Russia to be kicked off the internet
The internet is more than just hardware. It's also a global network of shared standards and protocols. Some, such as Domain Name Server (DNS), provide the master address list for all internet resources.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Elon Musk delivers on Starlink internet promise to Ukraine
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has damaged Ukraine's internet. So, Ukraine's Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov requested help from SpaceX and Tesla billionaire Elon Musk.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Tue, 01st Mar 2022
Data only SIM plans in Australia
Apple's iPad was designed for people on the move, but to make the most of this great device you need a connection to the internet. That is where a data only SIM plan comes in.
Source: WhistleOut
Tasmanian data services hit by twin Telstra fibre cuts
Tasmania was largely cut off from internet services on Tuesday due to two separate terrestrial cable cuts.
Source: iTnews Australia
NBN Co, Telstra, Optus networks impacted by severe floods
Telecommunications network operators including NBN Co, Telstra and Optus are responding to outages in South East Queensland and Northern NSW caused by severe floods.
Source: iTnews Australia
Telstra shows off edge compute in Barcelona
Telstra, Ericsson and Microsoft have used Mobile World Congress 2022 in Barcelona to announce customer trials of a 5G-enabled edge compute solution.
Source: iTnews Australia
Thu, 24th Feb 2022
TPG looks to fixed wireless adds, Telstra deal for growth
TPG Telecom expects to exit ADSL resale this financial year, leaving it with a choice of either putting customers onto the NBN or onto its own fixed wireless services, where margins are likely to be higher.
Source: iTnews Australia
Wed, 23rd Feb 2022
Optus' Ultimo data centre on the market
An Ultimo data centre first commissioned by failed Canadian telco vendor Nortel Networks in 2000, and operating as an edge data centre for 20 years since, is up for sale.
Source: iTnews Australia
ACCC to table new upfront rules for big tech platforms next week
Australia’s competition watchdog will next week table proposed new “upfront rules” aimed at stopping ‘big tech’ companies from abusing their digital dominance and vast data holdings.
Source: iTnews Australia
Google, Meta push back against changes to privacy laws
Meta has opposed consumers’ ‘right to object’ to the collection, use and disclosure of their data, while Google has opposed defining all location data as sensitive data, in submissions to the Attorney-General’s review of Australia’s privacy laws.
Source: iTnews Australia
ACCC says smaller NBN providers are more popular than ever (and we're not surprised)
Market share for NBN providers outside of the major telcos is up according to the latest ACCC report, meaning that more Australians are opting to give a smaller telco a go.
Source: WhistleOut
Tue, 22nd Feb 2022
Smaller NBN retailers increase grip on wholesale market
Some of Australia’s smaller National Broadband Network (NBN) retailers are increasing their grip on the wholesale market, putting pressure on the major players.
Source: ARN
International cable between Tonga and Fiji repaired sees Digicel say data fully restored
A little over a month since a volcanic eruption at Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai occurred, and Tongan connectivity was cut off from the outside world, the part of the Tonga Cable System linking the nation to Fiji has been restored.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Households favour high speed NBN plans as smaller retailers increase share
Almost 8.6 million residential broadband services are now on the NBN and 58% are on high speed services of 50 Mbps, with an additional 15% of customers on speeds of over 50 Mbps, the ACCC’s latest NBN Wholesale Market Indicators Report reveals.
Source: iTWire
Tonga's prime minister 'very confident' shattered international cable will be restored today
The Kingdom of Tonga could reconnect with the outside world today, with Prime Minister Siaosi Sovaleni expecting the nation's international internet and phone cable to be restored this afternoon.
Source: ABC News
Exetel buy sends Superloop revenue soaring to $119.8M
Publicly listed fibre network operator Superloop has seen its half year revenue soar by 125 per cent year-on-year to $119.8 million off the back of its Exetel acquisition.
Source: ARN
Telco expert backs ACCC call to treat NBN costs as sunk
A well-known telecommunications consultant has thrown his support behind a call by ACCC chairman Rod Sims for the government to treat the costs of the NBN as sunk and focus on getting the best use out of the network.
Source: iTWire
Telstra, Optus: don't treat network transactions as personal information
Telstra and Optus have both warned the federal government that proposals to expand the Privacy Act to treat location and other technical data as personal information could break their networks.
Source: iTnews Australia
Mon, 21st Feb 2022
Aussie Broadband fibre network will be complete by end of June
Aussie Broadband expects to complete its 1200km fibre network connecting NBN points of interconnect (POIs) by the end of June.
Source: iTnews Australia
Aussie Broadband continues upward trajectory with 46% first-half revenue increase
Aussie Broadband has reported its revenue for the first half of FY22 continued the company's upward trajectory, rising by almost 50% year-on-year to AU$229 million.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Telstra and TPG sign 10-year network and spectrum sharing deal
TPG Telecom has signed a decade-long network sharing deal with Telstra, giving it access to 3,700 of the latter's mobile network assets.
Source: ARN
TPG, Telstra to share mobile network and spectrum for decades
TPG Telecom has signed an initial 10-year network sharing deal with Telstra, extendable by a further decade, that could come into effect by the end of 2022 subject to regulatory approvals.
Source: iTnews Australia
Telstra and TPG team up to share spectrum and regional network access for a decade
Telstra and TPG Telecom have signed a billion-dollar deal that will see the pair share portions of their networks with each other.
Source: ZDNet Australia