Australian Ericsson head steps up to drive SE Asia and Oceania
Håkan Eriksson has been appointed Head of Strategy for Region South East Asia and Oceania for Ericsson, effective Jan 1 2016. Sam Saba, Ericsson Head of Region South East Asia and Oceania, said,...
View ArticleNBN got what it paid for—will now cost almost half as much again to fix it
Deputy leader in the Senate, Stephen Conroy has accused the former nbn board of being “incompetent political hacks” who did not know what they were doing when they bought the Optus hybrid-fibre coaxial...
View ArticleAustralian telecommunication consumers since 1870, need heroes
What does a woman who represents Australia’s communication consumers in 2015 have in common with a man, called Charles Todd who led an ambitious project to connect Australia to the world via a...
View ArticleThere’s room for a Volvo brand in IoT
Media coverage about security vulnerabilities in the Internet of Things (IoT), is creating a gap for companies wishing to brand themselves with a reputation for secure products. According to Martyn...
View Article1970s technology powerless against today’s Malware
Relying on 1970s technology to protect intellectual property in the cloud, is like “locking the front door to your house under a sign that says one trillion free tries”. This analogy is from Craig...
View ArticleNBN copper cost blowout exposes Government short sightedness
An NBN cost scandal has erupted with a new document revealing that copper for the Turnbull Government’s hybrid MTM broadband network is going to cost ten times as much as the original estimate. Of...
View ArticleNokia flags job cuts after Alcatel Lucent merger
The CEO of Nokia has stated that jobs will go as a result of the recent merger between Nokia and French telecoms giant Alcatel Lucent. Yle, Finland’s national public service broadcasting news service,...
View ArticleConcealed reviews exposed in house-swap economy
Not all peer-to-peer sharing economy platforms like Airbnb, Uber or Aussie House Swap offer consumers the same levels of protection. With the popularity of these sites exploding as a result of trusting...
View ArticleSecret nbn trial slashes per-premises costs in half
A new leaked internal document reveals secret trials of low-cost fibre-to-the-premises program by nbn. It says nbn successfully trialled a multi-technology local fibre network, which uses cutting-edge,...
View ArticleSpark and Huawei partnership ahead of device capabilities
Spark and network partner Huawei enabled the first 4.5G mobile site in New Zealand today, recording 1.15Gbps. This is the fastest mobile data speed in New Zealand and three times faster than the...
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