2+ hour, 35+ min ago  (318+ words) Telstra has copped a formal warning after using a privacy-preserving identity checking service to vet prepaid users, before regulations permitted it. The telco used the identity service - Australian Payments Plus" ConnectID - for its know your customer (KYC) obligations when activating…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago  (457+ words) NBN Co's new 2Gbps residential internet plans are too fast to be monitored with SamKnows boxes for the competition watchdog's speed testing program. The so-called 'home hyperfast' plans, sold as2000/200Mbps for FTTP and 2000/100Mbps for HFC, were launched in mid-September. A spokesperson for…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago  (525+ words) An investigation into the Optus triple zero outage has revealed it can take up to a minute for an emergency call to be re-routed over another telco's network under a process called "camp-on'. The issue impacts both Apple and Samsung…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago  (570+ words) Australia's mobile network operators have expressed disappointment universally at the prospect of paying up to $2.3 billion more than expected for spectrum they need to operate mobile and wireless broadband networks. The carriers had collectively been expecting license renewal fees in…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago  (361+ words) Australia's telcos, together with NBN Co, are facing higher costs to keep radio spectrum used for mobile and wireless broadband services than they had lobbied for. The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) said it intends to renew spectrum licenses…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (884+ words) The Australian Communications and Media Authority has moved to stop unsafe mobile phones and other illegal radio equipment getting into consumers" hands with a new voluntary scheme aimed at online device sellers. Announced amid growing scrutiny on mobile phone emergency…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (582+ words) NBN Co is hoping that its latest foray into digital twin technology will enable it to predict network performance and customer experience, building on six years of internal work with the technology. The network operator this week signed a three-year…...

2+ week, 13+ hour ago  (456+ words) About 98,000 Samsung mobile handsets in need of software updates that will allow them to make emergency calls reliably are still connecting to Australian networks, the device maker has revealed. Samsung yesterday told the parliamentary inquiry into the September Optus triple…...

2+ week, 14+ hour ago  (691+ words) Data-driven mining takes advantage of analytics and information sourced across the breadth of the operations to optimise production and improve real-time decision-making. It can enhance existing operating models as well as underpin innovative new ways of working. When it comes…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (729+ words) TPG Telecom has reported another potential triple zero call-related customer fatality linked to the use of a Samsung mobile handset model with a known emergency calling limitation. The mobile network operator's chief executive I'aki Berroeta informed the government of the…...