Tag: telecommunications

Businesses face cyber ransom reporting scheme

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Albanese government will introduce a mandatory ransomware reporting scheme for businesses as part of its update to the national cybersecurity strategy, ruling out an outright ban on the...

Australia signs on to 6G ‘global’ pact

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australia has joined most of its Five Eyes partners in a new alliance to diversify telecommunications supply chains and coordinate the roll out of 6G networks, after national security...

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...