Telcos will be required to keep customers informed about crippling network outages via the internet, social media and news bulletins, under new industry standards being developed in the wake...
Australia’s two biggest telcos have delayed the shutdown of their 3G networks by a further two months, heeding the call of a parliamentary committee less than two weeks ago....
Australia’s 3G network shutdown should not go ahead as planned later this month, with a Senate committee warning the dangers it poses to public safety are “too great to...
The federal government is being urged to close a “gaping” hole in Australia’s antiquated privacy regime by removing the small business carve out, following the country’s largest data breach...
The competition regulator has uncovered deals between Google and Australia’s biggest telcos that saw the tech giant’s search services preinstalled on mobile phones in exchange for a cut of...
Services Australia is switching its monster contact centre services contract to Optus after more than a decade with Telstra, with the smaller rival inking a new $578 million deal...
Australia’s national privacy office will lose more than $11 million in the next financial year as it faces a funding cliff and a backlog of investigations and freedom of...
Telcos will face a suite of new obligations to ensure emergency calls are carried by other networks in the event of an outage and share real-time network data with...
A government register introduced following one of Australia’s worst data breaches on record has blocked more than 300,000 fraudulent attempts to use stolen identity credentials legitimately in 18 months....
Communications minister Michelle Rowland took the unprecedented step this week of intervening in the upcoming shutdown of Telstra and Optus’ 3G networks to ensure that more is done to...