Optus review to consider role of govt in responding to outages

Former ACMA Deputy Chair Richard Bean will lead a government review of the Optus outage.

27 November, 2023

Optus CEO falls on sword

Kelly Bayer Rosmarin says her resignation is in the best interest of Optus.

20 November, 2023

Government to hold industry-wide inquiry after Optus outage

The federal government will hold an industry-wide inquiry following an Optus outage that affected millions of Australians.

8 November, 2023

AFP to investigate massive Optus data breach

The AFP will work with Optus in a criminal investigation into a data breach that compromised the personal information of millions of people.

25 September, 2022

New NSW Health Secretary named

Appointments, departures and movement in and around government.

24 February, 2022

Australia has more dead mobile phones than people

Handset heaven? Try purgatory.

14 April, 2016

Big telcos challenge government oversight

Telstra, Optus and Vodafone call for self-regulation

2 September, 2015

Call for input on NBN phone migration plans

The NBN will mean the end to the Plain Old Telephone System

20 July, 2015

Where is Tony Abbott’s Cyber Security Review?

Questions after business leaders summit.

9 July, 2015

Big three telcos make their call on mobile black spots

Subsidised base station bonanza.

20 April, 2015

NSW opens emergency airwaves to resilient competition

Services able to hop between carriers.

26 February, 2015

Mobile Black Spots fix gets poor reception from Labor

New base stations won’t eliminate poor mobile coverage.

8 October, 2014

Revealed: Australia’s worst spots for mobile phone coverage

Federal Mobile Black Spot Programme marches on

7 October, 2014

Councils dial-up heat over mobile blackspots funding

Warning not to sideline remote communities

29 July, 2014