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Hobart has the fastest broadband speeds of Australia’s capital cities but Perth lags well behind with the country’s slowest Internet speeds, according to an analysis of over 14,800 broadband speed tests between July 2018 and July this year.

Australian energy storage company Redflow has secured an order to immediately supply 27 of its ZBM2 zinc-bromine flow batteries for a Tasmanian farm owned by Simon Hackett – Redflow's founder and largest single shareholder.

Iconic photo journal magazine National Geographic has set out to prove that great professional quality pics are achievable by putting together a renowned photographer, spectacular scenery and the new OPPO Reno 5G smartphone.

Decision-making platform provider Board International has appointed 20-year IT industry veteran Paul Miles as channel partner operations manager.

Small Tasmanian-based Internet services provider Launtel is likely to stop offering its 250/100Mbps NBN service in Canberra due to the "extremely expensive" CVC charges imposed by NBN Co, the company that is building Australia's national broadband network.

Along with miserable broadband, the NBN has brought into our lives a number of terms that sound like words from a foreign language that are designed to prevent one from ever understanding what the whole thing is about. The head of one ISP is trying to demystify the network using simple language and everyday analogies.

Hobart-based digital services provider TasmaNet has partnered with Catholic Education Tasmania to provide Internet connectivity across 27 Catholic schools and all Catholic education offices in the state.

The Australian Computer Society and Tasmania’s TasTAFE have launched a Women in ICT Pathways Program aimed at supporting 36 students with training, mentoring and work placement.

Jobs advertisements on the online site SEEK fell by 3.6% in February compared to the corresponding figure a year ago, the company said, adding that on the plus side advertised salaries in all Australian states went up by 3.2%.

The ICT industry was the second strongest contributor to job ad growth across Australia in 2018, with job ads up 12% last year compared to 2017, according to the latest employment report from online jobs board SEEK which also showed that across all industries the average advertised salary was up by 3.9% in 2018.

Tasmanian communications and cloud services provider TasmaNet has completed a deal to deliver superfast broadband using new NBN Enterprise Ethernet fibre technology, commissioning a 1Gbps connection for St Michael’s Collegiate School in Hobart.

The company that manages the undersea data and power cable that links Tasmania to the Australian mainland says an additional inquiry commissioned into the failure of the cable in December 2015 is now complete and reiterates what was said earlier: that the failure was caused by unknown factors.

Basslink, the company that manages the undersea data and power cable that links Tasmania to the Australian mainland, has issued a notice of dispute to Hydro Tasmania seeking to recover money that it claims it is owed for the failure of the Basslink interconnector in December 2015.

Enabling DOCSIS 3.1 on the HFC network would be a good thing in the short term, but the longer game will always be a full-fibre given its longevity, tech experts have told iTWire.

Optus has completed the rollout of 37 new mobile sites across Tasmania in the last 12 months as part of its $42.2 million investment in the state, aimed at improving call quality and faster download speeds for mobile customers.

Three of Tasmania’s regional commercial radio stations are seeking regulatory approval to convert from AM to FM transmission.

Basslink, the operator of the Basslink Interconnector, the undersea data and telecommunications cable that connects Tasmania to the Australian mainland, says the power interconnector will take longer than expected to be repaired, and expects it to be ready for service only in early June. No exact date was provided.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency is set to spend $7 million on testing how solar parks, wind farms or enabling technologies such as batteries, can provide grid stability and security services.

The Tasmanian Government has formally lodged a notice of dispute with Basslink, claiming damages to the tune of $122 million as a result of a six-month outage that began in December 2015.

Basslink has denied claims by the Tasmanian Government that it had breached warranties about the design and construction of the Basslink Interconnector and reiterated that the failure was a force majeure event.