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• Mike Wright leaving Telstra after 38 years

  Telstra’s group managing director networks, Mike Wright is leaving the company he joined as a graduate in 1980. Brisbane-based Wright will leave the telco in September.

• Cars will make up 98% of mobile-to-mobile traffic by 2021

  Vehicle infotainment systems with data intensive applications will represent the vast majority of all mobile data traffic in five years, according to Juniper Research.

• Jumping hurdles on the road to Rio 2016: AOC's head of IT Anthony Soulsby

  The 400 plus Australian athletes and their support teams heading to Rio will need to ignore all the city’s woes and focus. Helping them do just that is Anthony Soulsby, general manager of IT at the AOC and his team.

• Edtech inspired Mazenod College cures network woes

  The secondary college for boys in WA found that its existing network infrastructure could no longer cope with demand. With ambitions to capture and store lesson footage in high definition for later playback, college ICT director Hugo van Niekerk sought a solution.

• ​Optus, Huawei reach 1.41Gbps speeds in 4.5G tech trial

  Optus and Huawei on Friday have completed a live trail of 4.5G technology resulting in download speeds of 1.41Gbps, with theoretical maximum speeds expected to hit 1.43Gpbs.
  

• IoT is here and mobile networks will never be the same

  A coming boom in connected sensors and devices will drive mobile networks into distributed computing, the president of Bell Labs says

• NBN exceeds targets for FY2015

  NBN today announced it had exceeded its targets for FY2015 by doubling the number of serviceable premises, the number of active end users, and telecommunications revenue in the 12 months to 30 June 2015.

• U.S. Internet connection speeds still lag behind other developed nations

  The average U.S. Internet connection speed continues to lag behind that of many other developed nations, according to the latest State of the Internet report from CDN and cloud service provider Akamai.

• In Pictures: Inside the evolving world of wireless charging technology

  Wireless charging is starting to make headlines, with companies like Samsung pushing the technology in its Galaxy line of smartphones. But did you know wireless charging goes back as far as the early 1900s?

• Looking for something nearby? Wi-Fi Aware could find it for you

  A new feature of Wi-Fi could help people find both each other and things nearby, without even being near a hotspot.

• Config error at Boston-area hosting company takes down Reddit, others

  A Boston-area hosting provider briefly knocked several large services and websites dependent on Amazon and AWS offline on Tuesday night, thanks to a configuration error.

• Wi-Fi password-sharing feature in Windows 10 raises security concerns

  With the launch of Windows 10, anyone who walks into your house and gets your Wi-Fi password for their PC could potentially let all their friends onto your network, thanks to a new feature that has ignited controversy online.

• Fon keeps adding Wi-Fi hotspots, but struggles to crack the US

  Wi-Fi aggregator Fon is continuing its mission to cover the world with shared broadband Internet connections, with recent deals giving it a boost. But the U.S. market continues to elude the company.

• LTE-U is coming to take your Wi-Fi away, consumer advocates warn

  A carrier technology that uses Wi-Fi frequencies to provide LTE connectivity could let the big wireless providers mess with your home connection and push you on to their networks, according to comments filed today with the FCC by several watchdog groups.

• Juniper, Ruckus join hands with an eye on mobile growth

  The newly-announced alliance between Juniper Networks and Ruckus Wireless underscores the importance of Wi-Fi in enterprises, where employees increasingly work and access cloud applications on mobile devices.