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Scammers are continuing to impersonate the Optus brand to scam Australians, according to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) which has warned that it is receiving reports of convincing-looking email scams using Optus branding.

Telecommunications company Optus will provide its business solutions and mobile network to over 700 services to home service franchise Jim’s Group across its 54 divisions.

Among top mobile operators in Australia in Q4 2022, Telstra delivered the fastest media download speet at 96.16Mbps, followed by Optus and Vodafone at 90.56 and 66.86 respectively, according to Ookla's Speedtest Intelligence test.

HMD Global has announced the launch of the Nokia C31 smartphone with Optus Australia. Now the three major Australian carriers - Telstra, Optus, and Vodafone - all have Nokia devices, making the brand more accessible.

Smaller broadband providers continued to increase their share in the NBN wholesale market and expand their presence across the NBN in the September quarter 2022, the ACCC reports.

The price of NBN home broadband services increased for consumers in 2021-22 while NBN Co’s own service standard measurements remained largely unchanged over the same period, according to the ACCC’s Communication Market Report.

Mobile service provider Optus and Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson have deployed a radio access network site at Optus’ Moorebank site in Sydney.

GUEST OPINION by Lani Refiti, ANZ Regional Director of cybersecurity firm Claroty: The Australian Government has recently announced a team comprising 100 of the best cybersecurity experts in Australia to track down the people responsible for recent attacks on Optus and Medibank, forming a new partnership with the Australian Federal Police and Signals Directorate.

GUEST OPINION: While repercussions from the recent hacker attacks on Australia's Optus and Medibank are still resounding as media writers estimate ever higher damage costs, attacks on supply chain targets are flying under the radar.

Technology company Avaya has appointed Dino Beverakis as managing director for Australia and New Zealand.

Telecommunications company Optus has switched on a new tower in South Hedland, providing residents customers with improved communication and increased network capacity.

Digital infrastructure and continuity solutions provider Vertiv has appointed Vai Le as associate channel director for Australia and New Zealand.

Telecommunications providers in the Asia-Pacific region are increasingly turning to selling towers to ease the financial strain they are under, the global ratings agency S&P Global Ratings says in a research note.

Data published by the individual(s), who attacked the medical insurer Medibank Group using ransomware, has now been linked to from a forum on the clear Web, the same forum where the data from telco Singtel Optus was released. Ransomware generally attacks only systems running Microsoft's Windows operating system.

The Federal Court has ordered that the largest internet service providers—Telstra, Optus, and TPG Telecom—need to pay penalties amounting to $33.5 million after each companies admitted false and misleading representations when promoting certain NBN internet plans, according to the ACCC.

Telco Singtel Optus has set aside $140 million for costs associated with the catastrophic breach it announced in September, with the company announcing this as part of its half-year results on Thursday.

Telco Singtel Optus has agreed to reimburse the costs of a new driving licence for NSW residents who were hit by the telco's catastrophic data breach.

Telecommunications provider Singtel Optus has denied that data which was leaked during a massive breach of its network is in any responsible for a cafe owner losing about $10,000 from his ANZ bank account.

Experienced vendor and systems integration operative Dino Davanzo has been appointed as chief revenue officer of Australian software firm FirstWave Cloud Technology.

One reason why a company like Singtel Optus can leak customer data in a breach that is, by all accounts, its own fault and then avoid being held to account is because of the media's fawning coverage.