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

Feds dial into BYOD for Whole-of-Government

By Paul Hemsley and Julian Bajkowski The federal government has officially gone to the market to recast it’s whole-of-government procurement of mobile products and services after the Department of Finance issued a Request for Tender for mobile service providers to become part of a new Mobile Panel set to be launched in March 2014. The […]

29 November, 2013

NSW Finance and Services taps Optus for mobile deal

By Paul Hemsley The New South Wales Department of Finance and Services has swapped Telstra for Optus as the provider of its mobile telecommunications services to connect its growing use of smartphones, tablets and laptops. In a contract valued at $1.34 million over 24 months based on “current volume and usage” of mobile devices, the […]

8 October, 2013

Digital dividend delivers Conroy another $2b

By Julian Bajkowski Telstra, Optus Mobile and TPG internet have emerged as the winners in the federal government’s lucrative auction of former analogue television spectrum after the carriers plumped almost $2 billion to secure their slice of recycled airwaves. Telstra paid by far the largest amount, shelling out $1.3 billion for two lots of 10 […]

7 May, 2013

Copper, loopholes and probes dominate Coalition’s cut-down NBN launch

By Julian Bajkowski The Coalition has gambled large on reviving Australia’s ageing copper telecommunications network to supply broadband download speeds of between 25 megabits per second and 100 megabits per second to deliver a heavily pared-down and cheaper version of the National Broadband Network (NBN) it claims will be completed by the end of 2019. […]

9 April, 2013

NBN demolition fuse reignites

By Julian Bajkowski The already bitter war of words over the progress of the rollout of the National Broadband Network has intensified after federal Communications Minister Stephen Conroy pounced on a dissenting report from a Coalition members of a Parliamentary Committee delving into the project to rekindle accusations that the Opposition is plotting to “demolish” […]

28 February, 2013