Australia’s telcos prepare for 5G era, spending $834 million on key spectrum
Mobile network operators will hand over $834 million for spectrum that will be used to deliver the first Australian 5G services.
Mobile network operators will hand over $834 million for spectrum that will be used to deliver the first Australian 5G services.
Optus Business has reported an overall decline in earnings of 7.9 per cent for the half year ended 30 September 2018.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has welcomed moves by Telstra, Optus and TPG — which along with Verizon are sometimes dubbed the ‘gang of four’ — to publish the criteria which they use to assess requests by other ISPs to enter peering arrangements.
Optus has refunded some $12 million to around 240,000 of its customers over its so-called ‘Direct Carrier Billing’ service.
Optus has unveiled plans to acquire Australian start-up Hivint, in a move designed to enhance cyber security capabilities across Asia Pacific.
Vodafone says that a decision by the government to ban Huawei and ZTE from supplying equipment for Australian telcos’ 5G rollouts is a “significant change which fundamentally undermines Australia’s 5G future”.
Optus has confirmed that 440 roles will be made redundant at the telco.
Optus has hit back at Telstra over claims by the larger telco that it was the first Australian mobile carrier whose network was “5G ready”.
Optus has stopped chasing Telstra over damages the Singtel subsidiary it may have suffered due to a Telstra “unlimited” advertising campaign, which a court found to be misleading.
Optus Business has been appointed whole-of-department telecommunications provider for the Department of Health.
Optus has attributed a 1 per cent first quarter drop in its mass market fixed line operating revenue to the NBN Co-imposed temporary halt of hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC) sales.
Optus Business revealed today that it has struck a five-year agreement with Curtin University to back a new research group focused on artificial intelligence.
Optus says that its efforts to re-architect and boost the resilience of its sports streaming service have paid off, with last night’s matches not suffering the widespread buffering and freezing problems that previously dogged the streaming service’s web-cast of the FIFA World Cup.
Optus CEO Allen Lew has revealed that the telco has struck an agreement with SBS to have the broadcaster simulcast FIFA World Cup matches until the end of the group stages on 29 June.
Optus has launched the Optus Innovation Hub, a dedicated workspace within the Sydney Start Up Hub to enable its small and medium business arm to tap the creativity and disruptive power of small businesses for the creation of future Optus SMB products.