State and federal ministers with responsibility for year 2000 have agreed to recommend to their governments that public reporting of Y2K compliance in government should be at least quarterly, and on an agency-by-agency basis.
One.Tel yesterday announced the Australian Communications Authority has approved its GSM licence application, paving the way for it to build Australia's fourth GSM network.
Telstra announced yesterday its latest organisational changes, naming 10 senior executives, and revealing its extended focus on the mobile market.
Global network provider, Equant has expanded its frame relay service to reach over 100 countries worldwide, the company announced last week.
Fujitsu and Amdahl announced yesterday they have merged operations in Australia and New Zealand to form a joint organisation.
Trading under the name of Fujitsu Australia, the new organisation becomes effective today.
In a $100 million agreement, local telco provider PowerTel has selected Cisco Systems to build a multiservice network offering voice, data and video services.
Software heavyweights Informix and SAP have joined forces to deliver SAP's R/3 enterprise resource planning suite on the Linux platform.
Global One yesterday announced the launch of its remote access service to Australian and New Zealand customers.
The federal government announced on Friday it has sold the National Transmission Network to NTL Australia for $650 million.
Global Crossing and Frontier this week announced an $US$11.2 billion merger of their two companies, creating a global IP-based network offering Internet, data, local and long-distance telephone, and conferencing services.
The NSW government has announced the results of its tendering process for delivery of a whole of Government Network Service (GNS).
Rather than a single supplier the tender has been awarded to 11 companies and will operate on a contestable basis with the aim of stimulating competition in the telecommunications industry.
Nortel Network announced on Thursday it has released Optivity Service Level Management (SLM) 2.1, its next management tool.
Telstra yesterday successfully demonstrated it new CDMA (code division multiple access) network at an official launch in Swan Hill, Victoria.
Deputy Prime Minister, Tim Fischer made the first phone call on the network to Telstra CEO Ziggy Switkowski from Swan Hill.
A new telecommunications player offering telephony and Internet services via the web was launched for the Australian market yesterday.
Known as EcomTel, the telco is e-commerce driven and is focused entirely on doing business via the Internet and e-commerce.
Queensland-based bank Suncorp Metway is set to start rolling out a new front-end banking system from network integration and services vendor, Wang Global.