Established in 1994, Communications Day is the authoritative source for commercial, regulatory, political and technology news and analysis for telecommunications in Australia and New Zealand. Delivered every working day to a reader base of C-level executives, regulators, government and opposition ministers and their staff, CommsDay provides essential business intelligence and a key competitive advantage for anyone working in the ANZ telecoms sector.
EXCLUSIVE: Vocus is set to play a key role in Meta’s 50,000km Project Waterworth around-the-world subsea cable initiative, with documents viewed by CommsDay pointing to at least three Australian landings, including two greenfield sites in Queensland.
SIGN UP TO READThe Australian Communications and Media Authority will examine Telstra’s network configuration, equipment and maintenance arrangements as part of its investigation into last week’s nationwide outage, including whether the carrier was too slow to notify customers, government and other stakeholders.
SIGN UP TO READTelstra initiated 604 welfare checks following this week’s nationwide outage, with seven people ultimately found to require emergency assistance.
SIGN UP TO READGRAHAME LYNCH says every major telecommunications outage now produces the same reflex response. There must be stronger penalties. There must be new incentives. There must be another review, standard, obligation or program to force carriers to build more resilient networks. But the premise is wrong.
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