Subsidised base station bonanza.
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NSW opens emergency airwaves to resilient competition
Services able to hop between carriers.
Mobile Black Spots fix gets poor reception from Labor
New base stations won’t eliminate poor mobile coverage.
Revealed: Australia’s worst spots for mobile phone coverage
Federal Mobile Black Spot Programme marches on
Councils dial-up heat over mobile blackspots funding
Warning not to sideline remote communities
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…