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Telecommunicatiions services group Vocus says its commitment to infrastructure will secure Australia’s digital future as it marks the completion of the US$170 million Australia Singapore Cable.

National Narrowband Network Co, the Australian company building a national narrowband network in Australia for IoT, has appointed former Vocus chief financial officer Rick Correll to a newly created position as director, corporate development.

Data centre provider NextDC has appointed former Vocus senior executive Adam Gardner as its new head of Products as it continues to pursue an “aggressive” growth strategy in the Australian market.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued a discussion paper proposing to take over the collection of Internet activity data, a task which the Australian Bureau of Statistics said that it would be stopping.

In what should come as no surprise, the Federal Government has awarded the contract for building the sub-sea cable between Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Sydney to the Vocus Group.

Interconnection and data centre company Equinix has announced that the Australia Singapore Cable, owned by Vocus, will be accessible in its International Business Exchange date centres in Singapore and six Australian metropolitan cities.

Australia's Vocus Group and Vodafone New Zealand have joined hands in a deal to unbundle the government's ultra-fast broadband fibre network.

The Vocus Group says it has dropped plans to sell its assets in New Zealand and has ended talks with all parties that had expressed an interest in buying its New Zealand business.

Australia has confirmed that Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei will have no role in an undersea cable system linking the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea to Sydney, with an announcement that Canberra will provide the majority of funds for the project.

A new Australian communications alliance, Commpete, has called for competition to return to the centre of communications policy and a reversal of market concentration if the vision that inspired the NBN is to be recaptured.

Laying of the Australia-Singapore subsea cable has commenced, with two ships laying two distinct sections from near Christmas Island to Fremantle, and the other in shallow water between Singapore and Christmas Island.

The Vocus Group has refused to confirm a report that it is set to sell its New Zealand business to NZ power and Internet provider Trustpower for about $250 million.

Former Telstra chair and current deputy chairman of Vocus Bob Mansfied has taken the reins as a non-executive independent chairman of the board, replacing Vaughan Bowen who has announced his resignation from the board.

Vocus chief executive Geoff Horth has left the company "by mutual agreement", according to an announcement made to the ASX on Monday.

The NBN Co is well known for doing what Pontius Pilate did – washing its hands of any responsibility for the shabby network that it has built so far. Today, it has unveiled another instalment in this exercise.

The Vocus Group has reported $967 million in revenue for the first half of the 2018 financial year, with underlying net profit after tax (NPAT) of $68.6 million.

The Vocus Group is remaining mum about the state of its Sydney data centre in Alexandria, with a request for comment unanswered after a major outage on Tuesday.

The US Government has brought pressure to bear on Verizon and forced the telecommunications firm to give up the idea of selling any phones made by Chinese firm Huawei, including the recently released Mate 10Pro, a report claims.

Australia's fourth biggest telecommunications company Vocus is upgrading core domestic infrastructure to support what it says is the early customer demand for the Australia Singapore Cable, as the project draws closer to being ready for service.

The Vocus Group has entered into a deal with Australia to undertake a scoping study on design, construction and procurement of an undersea cable system between the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Australia, displacing Huawei which was the original company signed to undertake the job.