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AMTA, the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association - and peak national body representing Australia’s mobile telecommunications industry - says recent media claims from the aviation industry are not based in fact, and that the aviation industry has failed to engage in the ACMA Technical Liaison Group on the matter.

Street lights, bus shelters and traffic lights will host more mobile network equipment to help boost mobile coverage, in the UK, as part of a new scheme to cut red tape and install more 4G and 5G kit.

Nokia, Optus and Samsung Electronics Australia announced that they have achieved a data session using 3 Components (3CC) Carrier Aggregation (CA) technology over a 5G Standalone (SA) network in Australia, claimed to be the first time this has been done using a commercial smartphone.

UScellular, in collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies and Inseego, has launched its 5G mmWave high-speed internet service in parts of 10 cities. The carrier’s Home Internet+ solution delivers speeds of up to 300 Mbps, an increase of 10-15 times compared to its 4G LTE home internet offering, and is a significant milestone in its multi-technology approach to providing High-Speed Internet solutions.

Telstra announced it had entered into an agreement with Fetch as its new platform for Telstra TV and to evolve Telstra’s home and entertainment proposition.

Casa Systems, a provider of physical and cloud-native infrastructure technology solutions for mobile, cable and fixed networks, announced that they have been awarded a multi-year purchase contract from Verizon.

T-Mobile announced that the company welcomed its 1 millionth Home Internet customer, remarkable growth just one year after launching the service commercially. This indicates that an aggressive deployment of fixed wireless infrastructure in our Australian suburbs might be more viable.

As predicted the ACCC's consultation and the outcome of the NBN Co SAU variation has been dragged out until after the election.

Macquarie Asset Management, on behalf of its managed funds, (Macquarie Asset Management) announced that, alongside its coinvestors, it has entered into binding agreements with Australia Tower Network (ATN), owned by AustralianSuper and Singtel, for the sale of 100% of Axicom for $3,580m.

The ACMA has renewed the declaration prohititing the use of mobile phone boosters.

OPINION The Shadow Minister for Communications and Member for Greenway Michelle Rowland, issued a media release titled 'Department slaps down dodgy Fletcher for misleading about fibre NBN'.

The ACMA has released details of the starting prices for the spectrum to be auctioned in late November or early December.

NBN announced that it will offer a COVID-19 relief credit payment totalling $5.2 million across eligible internet retailers to support the provision of additional data to meet increased customer demand for broadband services during the lockdowns in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia in July 2021.

I regularly find that a clear understanding of purpose provides a great anchor for decision making.