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| UpdatedTelstra has seen its first-half profit tumble to $1.8 billion, hit by the effects of tougher competition, adverse regulatory rulings and ongoing restructuring.
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Topics: mining-rural, oil-and-gas, telecommunications, wireless-communication, information-and-communication, mining-industry
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The vexed issue of internet speed, mobile phones and loss of landlines may be addressed with new trial.
Topics: mining-rural, rural, telecommunications, mining-industry, perth-6000
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Vodafone says Telstra should stop getting subsidies for fixed line services.
Topics: telecommunications, internet-technology, mobile-phones, rural-tourism, sydney-2000, shepparton-3630, cairns-4870, molong-2866
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| UpdatedNBN chief executive Bill Morrow says the $49 billion project is rolling out on time and on budget, despite having to secure a special loan from the Federal Government late last year.
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| UpdatedTelstra confirms all of its mobile services have been restored after a fire at its Chatswood exchange in Sydney caused outages across the country.
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There is growing opposition to calls to ditch a national policy that guarantees all Australians landline phone access. The Productivity Commission has suggested the NBN would ultimately replace the needs of the universal service obligation. But that draft recommendation has gone down like a lead balloon in rural and remote regions. At the Productivity Commission's public hearing in Cairns today, Andrew Pegler from the Queensland Isolated Children's Parents Association said 'if this goes ahead, you will see people will die'. Read the full story.
Topics: rural-youth, telecommunications, mobile-phones, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedTelstra says all voice services have been restored as repair work continues on its mobile network after customers reported outages across the country.
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| UpdatedA small internet provider helping to end the data drought in regional Queensland says it could soon be outbid by big telcos on digital spectrum access due to a proposed rule change by the Australian Communications and Media Authority.
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| UpdatedSamsung Electronics says internal short circuiting in Galaxy Note 7 batteries caused the phones to heat up and catch on fire, after months of investigation and internal and independent reviews.
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| UpdatedAlmost a third of all people to report having their identity stolen last year are over the age of 55, according to figures from the Federal Government's Scamwatch website.
Topics: hacking, telecommunications, industry, business-economics-and-finance, computers-and-technology, science-and-technology, law-crime-and-justice, australia
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| UpdatedIt started off with a series of suspicious emails and ended in a catastrophic con that saw scammers gain access to union officials' phones, private social media accounts and even their bank accounts.
Topics: hacking, telecommunications, industry, business-economics-and-finance, computers-and-technology, science-and-technology, nsw
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| UpdatedThe internet outage in Marshall Islands is into its third week after undersea cable repair works that were meant to last just 10 days needed to be extended.
Topics: telecommunications, internet-technology, pacific, marshall-islands
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Telstra is to upgrade a phone tower after complaints from a southern NSW community which has gone without phone service repeatedly over the past 12 months.
Topics: telecommunications, emergency-planning, mobile-phones, information-and-communication, regional, ardlethan-2665
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Share analysts predict the recent run for larger blue chip companies will not continue in 2017, with the best returns to be found amongst smaller listed firms.
Topics: stockmarket, futures, markets, telecommunications, electronics, banking, housing-industry, australia
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| UpdatedAn internet blackout in Marshall Islands causes withdrawal symptoms in a population that is used to fast internet speeds from an international underwater fibre optic cable.
Topics: telecommunications, social-media, marshall-islands, united-states, pacific
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| UpdatedAn internet blackout in Marshall Islands has caused withdrawal symptoms in a population that's used to fast internet speeds from an underwater fibre optic cable.
Topics: internet-technology, telecommunications, pacific, marshall-islands
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Using wifi and facetime Eric Barker made quality audio connection with landholders-better than landline and better than mobile.
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| UpdatedPrivate phone and internet metadata collected under the Government's data retention scheme could be used in divorce cases or to combat internet piracy, law experts warn, as telcos launch a fresh push to change the laws.
Topics: internet-culture, internet-technology, federal-government, telecommunications, courts-and-trials, australia
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| UpdatedThere are fears the National Broadband Network has scuppered plans for Australia's largest telescope to take part in global research because of a poor internet connection.
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The Gold Coast will spend more than $3 million to bring high-speed internet to the city in time for the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Topics: internet-technology, computers-and-technology, telecommunications, local-government, commonwealth-games, commonwealth-games-organising-committee, southport-4215
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| UpdatedBritain fines Vodafone a record 4.6 million pounds ($7.28 million) for "serious and sustained" customer failures, including not updating accounts when mobile phone users topped up their credit.
Topics: company-news, telecommunications, corporate-governance, united-kingdom