David Thodey uses the word ‘wonderful’ often – to describe Australia’s research, opportunities, education, skills and assets. The fact he doesn’t use the word to describe the NBN is...
Communications
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UNSW Canberra has successfully launched its first miniature satellite into orbit and unveiled a new facility to develop space missions locally. The launch is a major milestone for the...
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Cloud has moved beyond proof of concept implementations in Australia to wide-ranging roll-outs across most departments and ministries. Current government policy, according to the DTA, requires agencies to consider...
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Dampened by the federal government’s lacklustre efforts so far to roll out the National Broadband Network to regional parts of the state, the Queensland government is exploring whether it...
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The competition watchdog has set up a public inquiry into the National Broadband Network’s wholesale service standards in the wake of record numbers of complaints from consumers and a...
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The competition watchdog’s draft report into the country’s communications sector has lobbed into the middle of an NBN battlefield as the network engages in landmark price negotiations, and fights...
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AustCyber is readying a nationwide standards for TAFE institutions in an effort to make Australia the “leading force” in cyber security education. AustCyber chief executive Craig Davies said the...
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The ACCC will release a draft report on competition issues in the telecommunications sector within days, just as the industry labours under a barrage of bad publicity following the...
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It has taken four years for the government and the NBN Co to finally admit what many people have been predicting since the very beginning of the change in...
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The federal government has asked industry leaders to develop a mandatory cyber security rating system for Internet of Things devices, but experts say such a scheme would be “enormously...
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Complaints about internet services skyrocketed in the past year, with anger at the National Broadband Network climbing by more than 150 per cent, a Telecommunication Industry Ombudsman report has...
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The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) has found serious flaws with the Department of Communications’ contract management of selected telephone universal service obligations (USO). In a report released in...
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It started with the telecommunications sector, now the Australian government is looking to better ‘safeguard’ other parts of Australia’s critical infrastructure – electricity, water and ports – from potential...
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The federal government has launched Australia’s first international cyber strategy, with a focus on growing digital trade, improving cyber security in the Indo-Pacific and countering state-based cyberattacks. The International...