TPG targets June for 5G fixed wireless offering
TPG targets June for 5G fixed wireless offering
More than half a million of the telco’s customers are now using 5G mobile devices on its network.
Iñaki Berroeta (TPG Telecom) Credit: TPG
TPG Telecom plans to begin inviting customers to access its 5G fixed wireless services from June, the company’s CEO and managing director Iñaki Berroeta has told shareholders.
The publicly listed telco, an entity combining the freshly merged businesses of Vodafone Australia and TPG, has been accelerating its 5G efforts over the past several months, buying up additional mobile spectrum and rolling out 5G services to more than 500 suburbs in cities and major centres around Australia.
NBN Co extends fibre connections to 900,000 more premises
NBN Co extends fibre connections to 900,000 more premises
Follows NBN Co s announcement in September last year that it would invest $3.5 billion to upgrade its network.
Stephen Rue (NBN Co) Credit: NBN Co
NBN Co has announced 900,000 more fibre connections across Australia, with premises in suburbs and towns in Tasmania, the ACT and the Northern Territory that are currently served by fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) technology set to progressively become eligible for fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) upgrades.
The National Broadband Network (NBN) builder has also named additional suburbs and towns in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia where certain premises will gain fibre extensions.
NBN Co concedes ‘issues’ with field service app amid worker uproar
NBN Co concedes ‘issues’ with field service app amid worker uproar
NBN Co owns up to field service app issues as subcontractors unleash a litany of concerns over pay, management, contracting scheme and more. Credit: NBN Co
As angry workers moved to march on its North Sydney offices on 3 May, NBN Co conceded that it was aware of some issues its delivery partners and field technicians have experienced with its recently deployed SMAX-Go mobile application for managing and logging work requests.
“We have significantly improved the app over the last few weeks to address functionality, system performance and general user experience pain-points, and will continue to modify and enhance the app in the next two weeks,” the National Broadband Network (NBN) builder said in a statement.
From $2B to $14B: a decade of consumer digitisation in Australia
Internet connected devices in Australian homes grew from less than 35 million in 2010 to 193 million in 2020.
The noughties decade was a period of unprecedented change within Australia’s technology landscape, as the National Broadband Network (NBN), and emergence of online applications and entertainment helped digital goods and services boom seven-fold.
This is according to a comprehensive study by industry analyst firm Telsyte, which claimed the value of the local digital goods and services market grew from $2.2 billion in 2010 to $14.4 billion in 2020.
Described as the decade that gave the most rapid technological change in Australia’s history, the period saw the number of smartphones rise from 4.4 million in 2010 to 21.6 million in use as of last year.
From $2B to $14B: a decade of consumer digitisation in Australia
Internet connected devices in Australian homes grew from less than 35 million in 2010 to 193 million in 2020.
The noughties decade was a period of unprecedented change within Australia’s technology landscape, as the National Broadband Network (NBN), and emergence of online applications and entertainment helped digital goods and services boom seven-fold.
This is according to a comprehensive study by industry analyst firm Telsyte, which claimed the value of the local digital goods and services market grew from $2.2 billion in 2010 to $14.4 billion in 2020.
Described as the decade that gave the most rapid technological change in Australia’s history, the period saw the number of smartphones rise from 4.4 million in 2010 to 21.6 million in use as of last year.