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13/02/2024
Pentanet Wins mmWave Auction Spectrum: Secrets to its Success Revealed
Over the previous week, West Australian ISP Pentanet secured a 15-year licence for 200MHz of 5G mmWave spectrum in the 26GHz auction covering the Greater Perth area in Western Australia. The area of coverage also includes Perth, Mandurah, Bunbury, and Margaret River. The provider then revealed how its internal gaming smarts helped it win mmWave
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13/02/2024
Over 50% of Australian Enterprises Are Ready to Invest in 5G
According to new research from Deloitte, almost 54% of major Australian enterprises are now preparing to use or pilot 5G within the next 12 months.  The research study was based on 50 Australian enterprises that were sampled as part of the survey of nearly 500 major enterprises worldwide. 65% of these enterprises have annual revenues of US$1
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13/02/2024
Optus Releases New WiFi Plans Perfect for Family Use
Finding home WiFi plans that can cover the household is quite a challenge. But finally, an internet service provider offers a solution to this problem.  Optus is now offering new Family Home Internet plans bundled with a WiFi extender. This new internet deal will help in getting rid of the WiFi black spots in anyone's household.  Optus Managing
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13/02/2024
OpenSignal: Australia and NZ Make it to the Top 10 for 5G Download Speeds
OpenSignal released a new global 5G experience benchmark report. Australia scraped into the top 10 nations for download speeds in this report. The report also revealed that the average performance of the country is 231Mbps. New Zealand fared better, ranking ninth with an average performance of 240.7Mbps. However, it should be noted that the
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13/02/2024
New 5G power saving breakthrough claimed by Ericsson and Telia
A new standalone 5G technology feature that reduces latency and battery consumption is said to be developed by Ericsson and Telia. This new feature is said to dub an inactive state of radio resource control or RRC Inactive. According to the companies, this reduces the amount of signalling required during state transitions.    Based on the results
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13/02/2024
NBN Co resumes HFC orders by end of May or early June
Weeks ago, NBN Co announced that they would stop taking new hybrid fibre coaxial or HFC orders for several months. However, that break won't last long because recent reports said that they would restart taking orders on new hybrid fibre coaxial (HFC) services by at least June.  Global Shortage of Chips The company responsible for the National
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13/02/2024
NBN Co Offers CVC Incentives for Higher-speed Plans
To keep RSPs focused on marketing 250Mbps+ services, NBN Co is offering a range of CVC incentives. This happened after chief customer officer Brad Whitcomb revealed the stunning success of its current Focus on Fast promotion. Apart from a range of CVC incentives, NBN Co also proposed to effectively cap overall cost increases to RSPs at 7% in
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13/02/2024
NBN Co Goes on Track to Enjoy Positive Full-year Earnings for the First Time
NBN Co CEO Stephen Rue said that the company is in great shape--it will have its first positive full-year earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) after a 25% revenue increase.  The company responsible for the National Broadband Network (NBN) is generating higher revenue since March 2020, thanks to the growing demand
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13/02/2024
NBN Co Exceeds Annual Spending Budget
NBN Co Limited, popularly known as NBN, significantly went over its annual spending budget even before the government backflipped the elevated cost of the national infrastructure budget. The higher projected spending on NBN Co's financial year was initially slated to cost around $51 billion. However, the Morrison government in September 2020 added
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13/02/2024
NBN achieves a world record for long-range 5G transmission
Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) claims that they achieved a new world record for long-range 5G transmission.   NBN, along with its tech company associates Ericsson, Qualcomm, and Casa Systems, attained a stable 5G mmWave transmission at a length of 7.3 kilometres. This new record doubles the distance they recorded just three months
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13/02/2024
More Work Needed on Consumer Data Right in Telecoms According to Comms Alliance
The unquantified costs and benefits over the proposed extension of the Consumer Data Right to the telecoms sector worried Communications Alliance significantly.   Comms Alliance submitted a short consultation by the Federal Treasury over the introduction of the CDR to telecoms. In it, Comms Alliance said the initial consultation: “lends a greater
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13/02/2024
More Than Half of Global Gaming Revenues Accounted for by Mobile Gaming
More than twice as many revenues globally (US$1.57 billion) were generated by the cloud gaming market in 2021 as they did in 2020. According to researchers Newzoo, even more growth is anticipated, a growth that could potentially reach US$6.53 billion in 2024. Notably, cloud gaming is becoming one of the biggest use cases for 5G. According to
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