9 Aug 2025

Saturday round-up

The NBN is getting its biggest upgrade ever. Most people have no idea The SMH

Fairly or not, Australia’s NBN has long been the butt of the joke. After years of political football and criticisms that the network is subpar compared with global standards – we rank below the likes of Nicaragua and Venezuela – a high percentage of Australians will finally gain affordable access to world-class broadband speeds. The network is quietly getting its biggest ever speed upgrade in about a month, though not all households will benefit.

8 Aug 2025

Friday round-up

Privacy watchdog sues Optus over mass data breach The Age

Optus is facing a potential mammoth fine after Australia’s privacy watchdog launched civil Federal Court proceedings over a September 2022 cyberattack in which the personal information of nearly 10 million Australians was stolen.

Optus to answer privacy court case stemming from 2022 data breach iTNews

Optus is set to face a privacy lawsuit stemming from its 2022 data breach, with Federal Court proceedings filed by the Australian Information Commissioner.

5 Aug 2025

Tuesday round-up

NBN Co snubs Musk, inks satellite deal with Bezos’ Amazon The SMH

NBN Co has snubbed Elon Musk’s Starlink to sign an agreement with Amazon, the US tech giant founded by fellow tech billionaire Jeff Bezos, in a deal to provide high-speed broadband to hundreds of thousands of Australian users from next year.

NBN Co signs on to Amazon's Project Kuiper as Sky Muster replacement iTNews

NBN Co will offer users in its Sky Muster footprint an upgrade path to low earth orbit satellite services powered by Amazon Kuiper sometime before its current satellites reach end-of-life.

2 Aug 2025

Saturday round-up

Vocus completes AUD $5.25 billion deal for TPG fibre network assets itbrief.com.au

Vocus has completed its acquisition of TPG Telecom's Enterprise, Government and Wholesale fixed business and associated fibre assets for AUD $5.25 billion.

1 Aug 2025

Friday round-up

Vocus completes AUD $5.25 billion deal for TPG fibre network assets telconews.com.au

Vocus has completed its acquisition of TPG Telecom's Enterprise, Government and Wholesale fixed business and associated fibre assets for AUD $5.25 billion.

25 Jul 2025

Friday round-up

NBN Co to axe millions of useless planned outage notifications iTNews

NBN users and retailers may soon get a reprieve from the firehose of planned outage notifications they receive, starting with the removal of 120,000 notifications a month for outages that never happen.