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By Ry Crozier on May 4, 2021 11:15AM After first demonstrating a prototype two years ago. Optus is set to unleash onto the public an in-call translation service powered by Google technology that can translate between languages in real-time. CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin told the CommsDay Summit that the telco is taking expressions of interest from postpaid customers that want to trial the service. It wasn’t immediately clear what had occurred in the two year since the in-call translation was first demonstrated at a US technology conference and the impen...

By Ry Crozier on May 4, 2021 11:05AM Connecting Geraldton and Port Hedland. Vocus will deploy a 2000km high-capacity fibre link between Geraldton and Port Hedland in Western Australia by the end of next year. Codenamed ‘Project Horizon’, it is designed to provide a “missing link … between Port Hedland, where [Vocus’] North West Cable System from Darwin lands, and Geraldton, where [the company’s] terrestrial network ends,” chief operating officer Ellie Sweeney told the CommsDay Summit in Sydney. “The first stage of this program of work...