NBN Co CEO rejects calls for price cuts
NBN Co’s chief executive Stephen Rue has rejected calls by telcos to cut the company’s wholesale prices.
NBN Co’s chief executive Stephen Rue has rejected calls by telcos to cut the company’s wholesale prices.
Figures released today by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission reveal that the average NBN bandwidth per household increased in the three months to 30 September — from 1.66 megabits per second at the end of June, to 1.71Mbps.
The head of the ACMA says that the regulator has found evidence that telcos are not abiding by new complaints-handling rules.
Telstra’s network engineering chief says that the company is preparing to test the potential of 5G to enable smart cities, as the telco continues its program of rolling out support for the new standard across its existing mobile base stations.
Huawei says the government has informed the company that it, along with fellow Chinese telecommunications equipment provider ZTE, has been banned from providing 5G technology to Australia's telcos.
Macquarie Telecom is expanding its Macquarie Park data centre campus from 10 megawatts of IT load to 43MW.
Australia is preparing to ban Huawei Technologies from supplying equipment for its planned 5G broadband network after its intelligence agencies raised concerns that Beijing could force the Chinese telco to hand over sensitive data, two sources said.
Vocus has been contracted by the Australian Government to construct a high-speed sub-marine cable between the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Australia.
China's Huawei Technologies has gone on the offensive against Australian claims it poses a security risk.
Telstra has reiterated its plans to begin deploying 2 Gbps-enabled 4G network technology later this year.
The Communications Alliance has judged as "virtually impossible" for teleco providers to be ready to abide by new industry rules when they come into effect.
Optus confirmed on Tuesday that it is cutting 400 jobs
The Federal Court has ordered Optus to pay $1.5 million for making misleading representations to customers about their transition from the telco’s HFC network to the NBN.
The chief information officer of ASX-listed network infrastructure firm Service Stream has departed the company.
Optus is set to make around 170 jobs redundant after moving to outsource the functions of its network management centre to Nokia.