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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.

 

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in today’s issue of commsday

  • Australia’s national AusAlert emergency warning system has exceeded its key performance benchmark, with 94% of targeted mobile towers successfully broadcasting a test message, emergency management minister Kirsty McBain said.

  • The federal communications department was considering government investment or support for a sovereign Australian low Earth orbit satellite capability while NBN Co examined commercial alternatives to its ageing Sky Muster network, heavily redacted freedom of information documents reveal.

  • Equinix has appointed former Vocus executive Jarrod Nink as its new managing director for Australia, replacing Guy Danskine, who relocated to the US earlier this year

  • Former Telstra chairman John Mullen defended telecommunications companies and their executives from what he described as opportunistic criticism when major network failures occur, warning that outages are an unavoidable consequence of growing dependence on technology.

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