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.
A Victorian parliamentary committee’s proposal to mandate 48 hours of backup power at mobile sites in disaster-prone areas could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per tower and potentially more than $1 billion if applied nationally.
SIGN UP TO READNew data centres should be required to contract with new renewable energy projects to prevent their rapidly growing electricity demand from putting pressure on households and other existing users, the Clean Energy Council has proposed.
SIGN UP TO READSydney added 131MW of data centre capacity during the first half of 2026, taking its operational total to 917MW across 51 facilities run by 21 operators, according to Cushman & Wakefield.
SIGN UP TO READOptus has said it is unable to determine the potential penalties arising from the Australian Communications and Media Authority’s Federal Court action over the telco’s September 2025 Triple Zero outage.
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