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The Australia Singapore Cable network will open the door for a new strategic data route — the Great Southern Route — connecting South East Asia to North America via Australia, according to owner Vocus, when it opens for business in July 2018.

Australian-listed call recording platform provider Dubber says it has received commitments for a $6.5 million capital raising from investors, with the funds to be used to expand business in North America and Europe.

Vocus Communications has officially launched the submarine cable between Australia and Singapore in Indonesia with partner company XL Axiata.

A submarine cable that links Australia to Southeast Asia has been cut, increasing the latency for Australian users to Asian destinations.

TPG Telecom is now Australia's second-biggest provider of fixed-line broadband and is increasingly putting the big two telcos — Telstra and Optus — under competitive market pressure, according to a new report.

New Zealand's competition regulator, The Commerce Commission, has issued a draft determination on how much the country’s telcos will each pay towards the government’s NZ$50 million Telecommunications Development Levy which covers  the operation of telecommunications infrastructure and services that are not commercially viable.

The managing director of the small ISP MyRepublic claims the average revenue per user earned by the NBN Co will continue to be low because bigger telcos like Telstra, Optus, TPG and Vocus push slow-speed connections to their customers in order to avoid popularising the NBN.

The Vocus Group has decided to get its New Zealand operations ready for sale and is finalising the appointment of advisers, the company said on Monday.

Residential consumer and small business complaints against telcos continue to plague the telecommunications industry and there’s no sign of the connection problems being reduced despite industry and regulator efforts to overcome the problems.

Australia's main telecommunications providers appear to be mostly wary of commenting on the security reforms for the industry which were passed by parliament last week.

Australia's fourth largest telco Vocus Group faces a proposed shareholder class action over allegedly misleading investors.

Global interconnection and data centre operator Equinix has announced that the Vocus-owned Australia Singapore Cable will be made available to customers across its International Business Exchange data centres in Melbourne and Sydney.

Vocus Telecommunications has confirmed that its Australia Singapore Cable will be completed ahead of schedule.

Vocus Telecommunications has recorded revenue of $1.82 billion for the full year 2017, with underlying net profit after tax coming in at $152.3 million.

Telstra continues to dominate the take-up of NBN connections with an overall share of a little more than 50%, according to the ACCC's latest quarterly report on the NBN wholesale market.

Finland-based purchase-to-pay solutions provider Basware has signed an agreement for the renewal of purchase-to-pay and e-invoicing services with telecommunications services company Vocus in Australia and New Zealand.  

Telecommunications outfit Vocus has permitted Kohlberg Kravis Roberts to conduct due diligence to establish whether the offer made by the American equity firm can be taken any further.

Australia's fourth largest telecommunications outfit Vocus has added support for the IPoE protocol to its NBN Ethernet Bitstream equivalent service.

TPG Capital may team up with Vocus founder James Spenceley to examine a takeover of the communications company in the event that the equity firm's bid for Fairfax Media does not come off.

Australian telco Vocus has denied that it has turned down a $3.3 billion takeover from US equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.