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Australia slips in fixed broadband speeds while mobile prospers Australia has slipped five places from 55th in December to 60th in January with an average download speed of 33.28Mbps in the fixed broadband table compiled by Ookla, the company that provides the online Speedtest application for testing download and upload speeds.
6th March 2019
Coles snubs Telstra, cuts $100m NBN deal with Optus Retail giant Coles has unveiled a multi-year $100 million partnership with the business division of Singtel Optus to move its outlets to the national broadband network.
5th March 2019
Telco prices down and more data offered, says competition watchdog Australia’s competition watchdog, the ACCC, says lower prices and growing data services have been the key consumer benefits in the period 2017–18, with mobile phone services dropping by 8.3% in real terms, and fixed broadband prices falling by 1.5%.
2nd March 2019
Vodafone criticises Telstra call for lower NBN prices Vodafone Hutchison Australia chief executive Iñaki Berroeta has criticised Telstra for seeking a drop in NBN prices at a time when it is receiving $2.5 billion from NBN Co for use of its infrastructure and for customers who have been transferred over.
1st March 2019
ACMA warns telcos to comply with customer data obligations The Australian Communications and Media Authority has told 11 telecommunications providers to comply with their obligations that support emergency service across the country.
28th February 2019
Vodafone chief asks US to share evidence about Huawei Vodafone chief executive Nick Read says the US must share any evidence it has about Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies with authorities in Europe, so that they can make an unified decision on using equipment from the company.
27th February 2019
ACMA to issue revised rules for international mobile roaming The Australian Communications and Media Authority will release modified rules for international mobile roaming later this year, based not on the International Mobile Roaming Standard, but one more attuned to service providers with similar, more flexible rules.
26th February 2019
Follow our way, not the Huawei, Pompeo tells dissenters US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has told the Fox Business Network that Washington would not partner, or share information, with any country that used Chinese telco Huawei Technologies’ gear in its 5G networks.
23rd February 2019
Telstra says it has first dibs with Samsung S10 5G Both Telstra and Optus have announced they will provide their customers with the new Samsung Galaxy models released overnight, with Telstra claiming to have struck an exclusive deal with the South Korean phone-maker that would ensure its customers get their hands on the 5G device first.
22nd February 2019
Qualcomm's new multimode modem chip to speed up 5G rollout Semiconductor vendor Qualcomm Technologies has launched its much anticipated X55 modem chip for 5G smartphones. The new chip is claimed to be able to support speeds of up to 7Gbps down and 3Gbps up over 5G in the sub-6GHz spectrum.
21st February 2019