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Telstra chairman John Mullen has defended Optus over the recent major data breach, saying it was easy to be critical of another company's performance when one was not in the firing line.

Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson has partnered with telecommunications and network service provider Bluesky to provide equipment services to modernise network in Samoa.

Telstra has completed the acquisition of Digicel Pacific, after necessary approvals from the government and regulatory bodies being completed, the company said in an announcement to the ASX on Thursday.

COMPANY NEWS by Managed Services Provider (MSP) Tecala:  Despite the lockdowns in parts of Australia during August, Tecala employees, family and friends stepped up to the challenge of completing 10,000 steps each day throughout the month to raise funds for the National Breast Cancer Foundation’s (NBCF) vital breast cancer research.

Global digital payments provider WorldRemit and digital services provider Digicel International have cut a deal to provide international money transfers to mobile wallets for customers in Fiji, Samoa and Tonga.

The survey for laying the NEXT undersea cable project has been completed ahead of schedule and a request for proposal is underway, with vendor selection expected to be completed by the end of the year.

Pacific region telecommunications services provider Bluesky and Huawei are partnering to deploy a 4.5G LTE-Advanced network solution to meet what they say is increasing demand for mobile applications and services in American Samoa, Samoa, and the Cook Islands.

Vodafone has boosted its $5 a day roaming network offer with the addition of six new destinations – Canada, Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Vanuatu, and Solomon Islands.

The Samoa Submarine Cable Company has inked a turnkey contract with Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN) to roll out a new submarine cable system connecting Samoa to Fiji.

Global money transfer service WorldRemit has launched instant remittances to mobiles in the Pacific region countries of Fiji, Tonga and Samoa.

IBM has secured a multi-million dollar deal with Coca-Cola Amatil to streamline CCA’s South Pacific operations, including in Australia.