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GUEST RESEARCH: Only 6% of businesses globally use, access, and share data and data services in a way that grants them all the business benefits provided by a robust data strategy, according to new research from Snowflake, the data cloud company. The study of 1,000 business leaders and technology managers highlights the significant hurdles that the majority of organisations face in participating fully in the data economy.

Global cloud communications provider CommsGroup has acquired Gold Coast headquartered cloud and managed services provider onGroup Holdings, trading as onPlatinum.

Digital and data services company ARQ Group, has acquired technology consultancy Diaxion in a move it says bolsters its advisory, government digital strategy and transformation capabilities.

The Critical Infrastructure Bill, introduced by the Minister for Home Affairs, Peter Dutton MP, will recognise telecommunications and data centres as critical national infrastructure for the first time.

New Zealand’s major telcos Spark, Vodafone, Chorus, and 2degrees will collectively pay approximately 90% of the $10 million Telecommunications Development Levy (TDL) levy to be imposed on the telecommunications industry by the country’s competition regulator The Commerce Commission.

UK-based cloud contact centre provider MaxContact has expanded its Australian channel partner program with the appointment of Melbourne-headquartered cloud, voice and data services wholesaler CommsChannel as a managed services partner.

Australia’s 'bush' communications group - the Rural Regional and Remote Communications Coalition (RRRCC) - has called for all sides of politics to support the passage through the Senate of The Telecommunications Reform Package legislation.

Macquarie Telecom has signed a new deal with Bond University to provide data and voice services, aimed at enabling the University to further improve its student experience and provide new technology including artificial intelligence (AI) and free services for students.

The global number of roaming subscribers will reach 1.1 billion by 2024, rising from 900 million in 2020 - representing growth of 28% over the next four years -
according to a new report from Juniper Research.

The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is poised to witness the highest growth in the global telecom and pay-TV market between 2019 and 2024 due to conducive telecom policies and rapid mobile and fibre network roll-outs, according to new research.

Australian-operated, Thai-owned rural and regional satellite internet service provider IPSTAR Broadband is offering unmetered and non-speed-restricted data to Internet users in regional Australia - via Skymuster satellite - for essential services including emails, general browsing and social media.

Telecommunications provider Pivotel has congratulated Iridium Communications on the commercial launch of its Iridium Certus broadband service, enabled by the company's new $3 billion Iridium NEXT satellite constellation.

Regulation of Australia’s transmission services are set to continue for a further five years, with the ACCC finding that the regulation has  promoted competition and efficient investment, as well as contributed to lower prices and greater choice in phone and data services for Australian consumers.

Vodafone Hutchison Austra;oa has completed a successful trial of a self-install mobile coverage solution — the Vodafone Regional Coverage Hub — which is designed to deliver 4G voice and data services in locations across Australia where commercial networks are not traditionally deployed, or where coverage is patchy or unavailable.

Macquarie Telecom has inked a six-year agreement with NBN Co to provide telecommunications and data services to businesses over Australia's national broadband network, the NBN.

Businesses have been urged to prepare to migrate their special services, which simultaneously use voice, video and data services, to the NBN access network ahead of the first disconnections.

Telstra is ramping up the deployment of 4G Internet and voice services on small cell technology across regional Australia as part of the second phase of the government’s national mobile blackspot programme.

One of Australia’s largest mutual banks, the Teachers Mutual Bank, is set to introduce introduce shared services to its business that it claims will change the way the mutual banking sector does business, as well as boosting operational collaboration in the sector.

Optus has sealed a three-year contract with insurance giant QBE Australia to provide voice, mobile and data services across the company’s national network.

Voice and data communications services in remote and rural areas of Australia will get a boost from a new partnership between Optus Satellite and communications provider Ursys.