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13/02/2024
Small Business Services to be Scrutinised by ACMA
Nerida O’Loughlin, Australian Communications, and Media Authority chair, said that the regulator expects to cast a closer eye over telco services sold to small businesses. During the CommsDay Summit 2021, the chair announced the ACMA’s compliance priorities for 2021-22. This included a focus on small businesses’ concerns about telcos being
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13/02/2024
Regulatory Intervention on Local Number Porting Necessary According to Symbio
Rene Sugo, Symbio’s CEO, has recently called for regulatory intervention to address an “operational crisis” in the telecom sector concerning number porting. He pointed out that although the fixed voice market is characterised by competition at the infrastructure, service, and brand layers, it has an Achilles’ heel that needs to be addressed to
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13/02/2024
Public Consultation for 3.4-4GHz Spectrum Allocation Limits Launched by ACCC
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has recently launched a public consultation to confirm allocation limits for 3.4-4GHz spectrum distribution in remote areas.   The Australian Communications and Media Authority sought advice on the allocation limits for area-wide apparatus licenses in the band. The ACCC wants to assess
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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
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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