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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

  • Telstra and Optus have taken opposing positions at this week’s 3GPP RAN meeting in Madrid over when the standards body should begin work on specifying terrestrial mobile spectrum for direct-to-device satellite services.

  • Telstra has launched six APIs based on CAMARA standards through global network API aggregator Aduna, with initial commercial traffic recorded across services including number verification, SIM swap, device swap, Know Your Customer matching and customer tenure.

  • API aggregator Aduna is conducting a closed beta of a framework designed to give agentic AI systems governed access to telco network capabilities, initially focusing on low-risk applications using anonymised data.

  • The federal government has opened the door to progressively shifting free-to-air television from terrestrial broadcasting to online delivery, potentially clearing the 526–694MHz UHF television band for mobile services while inducing new demand for the NBN and other broadband infrastructure.

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