“Serious action” is needed to lift standards in the telecommunications industry, including tougher watchdog powers and mandatory compensation scheme for outage victims, a Senate committee report says. It also...
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Australia’s independent telecommunications overseer has called for a top down review of the sector’s regulatory framework, warning that governance has not kept pace with accelerating changes in technology. In...
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The Communications watchdog on Thursday said it has commenced Federal Court proceedings against Optus over its September outage which resulted in more than 600 failed Triple Zero calls and...
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Communications minister Anika Wells has defended the performance of Australia’s triple zero network during Wednesday’s Telstra outage after around three dozen calls to the service were dropped on their...
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The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is currently developing a new standard for mobile coverage maps in response to a direction issued by the Minister for Communications Anika...
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A Senate committee has put Australia’s telco regulator to the torch for the way it investigated reports of fatalities during last year’s triple zero outages, accusing them of “disturbing”...
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The federal government will review the laws underpinning Australia’s triple zero net, more than two years after a catastrophic Optus outage first exposed gaps in the emergency call system....
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Telstra will axe or offshore almost 650 jobs under a new partnership with global tech giant Infosys unveiled late Wednesday, a move the peak communications sector union says will...
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A court has ordered Google Asia Pacific to pay a $55 million fine after the consumer watchdog found it used contracts with Android phone manufacturers and telcos to maintain...
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Telstra has switched on the Sydney–Melbourne leg of its long-haul fibre system, meeting a surge in AI-fueled traffic and marking a key milestone in the telco’s $1.6 billion infrastructure...
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he had raised the recent deadly outage of Singtel-owned Optus’s emergency call number with his Singaporean counterpart, Lawrence Wong, in a bilateral meeting held...
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Optus’ chief executive will need more time to get its house in order, the boss of parent Singapore Telecommunications said on Tuesday, after back-to-back emergency call outages in Australia...
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Communications minister Anika Wells has warned that telcos could face tougher regulations after an Optus outage resulted in more than 600 failed Triple Zero calls and left three people...
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Shadow Communications Minister Melissa McIntosh has warned that Australia is falling behind on the basics of communications sovereignty, urging the federal government to bolster Australian ownership and control over...