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Optus Satellite has teamed up with New Zealand TeamTalk subsidiary Farmside to deliver broadband services to remote areas of New Zealand.

Google has announced it is launching Fiber Phone, a home phone service which is basically a landline service for its customers - in addition to its existing Fiber high-speed internet and cable TV offerings - in the US market.

Complaints about telco phone services have hit a nine year low, dropping by 9.4% in the three months to the end of last December, but the news is not so good for Internet services.

Telstra is set to complete a major upgrade of the King Island transmission between the island and Tasmania that provides the landline phones, internet and 3G mobile services.

Internet Australia has put the pressure on the federal government and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, and the Labor Opposition, with a call for the Data Retention Act to be scrapped completely.

The corporate watchdog, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commisssion (ACCC), has cleared the way for TPG to take over rival telco iiNet, creating a seriously large challenger to Telstra, the dominant player in the market.

iiNet has been contracted by the Tasmanian Government to deploy Internet access services across the state’s public sector.

The consumer watchdog, the ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) says consumers will be better protected from premature disconnection of their phone and Internet services when Telstra migrates its telephone and Internet services to the National Broadband Network (NBN) under a revised plan.

Telstra customers were not the only ones affected by the outage which hit New South Wales overnight and early this morning, with train commuters in parts of the state suffering delays to services due to the disruption.