Tag: telecommunications

Reboot the Regional Communications Fund: ACCAN

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network wants the new federal government to re-establish the regions-focused Communications Fund, in part to respond to estimates that there around 900,000 households without...

Tough times: Australian telcos about to hit the wall

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
Australian telecommunications companies are underperforming and if they thought that life couldn’t get any worse, then they are in for a short sharp shock. It does not matter who...

Regional NBN upgrades get $480m budget boost

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The federal government will set aside $480 million in next week’s budget to upgrade telecommunications infrastructure in regional Australia. The investment will support a $750 million upgrade to improve...

Telstra-TPG agreement highlights an ACCC failure

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
Last month, Telstra and TPG Telecom signed a ten-year mobile infrastructure sharing agreement that will boost TPG Telecom’s mobile network to cover 98.8 per cent of the population and...

Govt pays BCG $1m for telco supply chain work

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government will pay American multinational Boston Consulting Group $125,000 a week to produce reports on Australia’s supply chain resilience around semiconductors and telecommunications equipment over the next...

Telco concerns over critical infrastructure

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Proposed powers for the government to step in and take over a piece of critical infrastructure is of “great concern”, according to the Communications Alliance, with a rushed process...
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