Displaying items by tag: Telecommunications sector

Specialist IT project delivery company Avec has appointed Malcolm J. Barnes as General Manager – Sales for NSW.

GUEST OPINION by Chris Wright Red Hat senior VP and chief technology officer: Edge computing is giving life to transformative use cases that businesses are dreaming up today and bringing real-time decision making to last-mile locales.

GUEST OPINION: Glen Rabie, Yellowfin the CEO of an Australian-based global data analytics and business intelligence software company says that while his sector has lacked innovation over the past two decades, changes are occurring, spurred on by the global pandemic.

Millions of scam telephone calls have been blocked in recent trial initiatives, according to telecoms industry peak body Communications Alliance, in the lead up to the newly announced introduction of a new industry code aimed at stopping scam calls.

Telecoms lobby group and peak industry body Communications Alliance has called on government to work together with the telecommunications industry to advance sector-specific critical infrastructure reforms.

RMIT Online and Telstra have joined force to launch a Software Defined Networking program and course designed to give students the fundamentals in networking and to obtain skills in areas such as IP networking, SDN, virtualisation with NFV, cloud implementation, orchestration, network service modelling, and automation.

Commpete, the former Competitive Carriers Coalition, has called for the resignation of the board of NBN Co, the company rolling out the Australian national broadband network, accusing it of comprehensively failing in its core mission, including driving a more competitive telecommunications sector.

The latest report by the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman showing significant falls in complaints volumes about landline, mobile and Internet services does not represent “job done” by any means, according to the  telecommunications industry lobby group, Communications Alliance.

Complaints by Australian telecommunications users about landline, mobile and Internet services fell in the last six months of 2018 by 27.7% to 60,998 compared to the corresponding six month period in 2017.

The telecommunications industry lobby group, Communications Alliance, has told the Australian Communications and Media Authority it wants stronger, enforceable protections for Australia’s telecommunications consumers.

The demand for, and volume of, location data in Australia is unprecedented, according to a key industry player, with the telecommunications and insurance sectors the most interested in the use of location data services.

Telecommunications services provider MNF Group has signed on as the title sponsor for the 2018 ACOMM Awards which recognise excellence in the Australian telecoms sector.

Listed Australian battery company Redflow is raising $18.1 million in equity capital, with the funds to be used to scale up battery production and to grow Australian and international sales.

Transmission wholesale services in the telecommunications sector — including  the impact that NBN services are having on competition within the transmission market — are to come under scrutiny from the competition watchdog, the ACCC, in a public inquiry which has just opened.

Australian-listed knowledge management software provider Knosys has won its biggest single contract with a $6.1 million agreement with Singapore telco Singtel and its Australian subsidiary Singtel Optus to deploy its knowledge management platform, KnowledgeIQ.

The National Broadband Network has responded to concerns by the competition watchdog about potential unfair competition in the telco sector over an HFC deal between it and Telstra, simply confirming its credentials as Australia’s open access wholesaler only ‘non-discriminatory operator’.