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 major telecommunications industry backlash has emerged against the political criticism of Telstra following this week’s national outage, led by digital infrastructure entrepreneur Bevan Slattery arguing the disruption exposed serious resilience failures among enterprise users relying on a single mobile network.
SIGN UP TO READNBN Co remains on track to commence the testing of LEO satellite services in the current half, the company has confirmed to CommsDay.
SIGN UP TO READFibre-to-the-curb remained the most fault-prone fixed-line technology on the NBN on a per-service basis during the March quarter, although the latest ACCC data also showed some issues across the expanding FTTP network.
SIGN UP TO READSuperloop has been named Australia’s fastest fixed network for the first half of 2026 by Ookla. This is the third consecutive time Ookla’s Speedtest Awards places Superloop at the top of fixed network speeds.
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