Stories by Stephanie McDonald

NBN Co will release its revised corporate plan until next week, following widespread media reports it would be released this week.

Telstra will install several new mobile base stations in Western Australia’s (WA) north-west region to improve mobile and broadband coverage in the area.

Technology is changing the face of university education, with virtual learning now becoming an essential part of ‘hands on’ degrees such as medicine, nursing and engineering.

Choice has called on the industry to produce data and analysis to back up their claims that there are unique costs to doing business in Australia.

Optus has launched 4G business services to Sydney and Perth, with Melbourne to join the 4G network in August this year.

iPrimus has connected the country’s first customer to NBN Co’s business-to-business (B2B) Gateway on the National Broadband Network (NBN) in Sorrell, Tasmania.

Suzanne Campbell, CEO of the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA), has told a Federal Government inquiry into IT pricing that vendors do not set retail prices. Instead, channel partners and content and rights owners are responsible for setting prices, she said.

Rene Sugo, CEO of VoIP services company and ISP MyNetFone, believes RSPs will increase their National Broadband Network (NBN) prices once interim points of interconnect (POI) are removed, because current prices are unsustainable.

Optus has the largest fleet of domestic satellites in Australia and New Zealand and provide services for television broadcasts - pay TV and free-to-air - radio, internet, voice and data services.

The Federal Government is investing over $5 million to help 14 local governments utilise National Broadband Network (NBN) enabled services.

PayPal’s co-founder has taken part in a $1.2 million investment in Australian start-up ScriptRock.

Greens senator Scott Ludlam has continued to stand by his claims that Federal Government proposals for data retention should not be passed.

Monash University is using robots built from Lego kits at its university open day for high school students.

MyNetFone's CEO has rebuked Malcolm Turnbull's claims the Coalition could deliver a cheaper model for the National Broadband Network (NBN), stating the cost of maintaining the copper network will add to a fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) deployment.

A $33 million Cray supercomputer will be installed at the Pawsey Centre in Perth over two years.