Telecom Times has ceased publishing. There are tentative plans for a subscription newsletter Digital Health Monitor, which I intend to also include access to some kind of Telecom Digest as well as the publication The Parkinsonian. For more information, please… Read More ›
A new report by economic analytics firm AlphaBet which NBN Co says offers a more accurate reading of a nation’s broadband speed ranking, has found that the average Australian broadband download speed has more than doubled over the last five years… Read More ›
SUNNYVALE, CA. and YOKNEAM, ISRAEL – October 15, 2019 – Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX), a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end smart interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced acceleration of NVMe/TCP at speeds up to… Read More ›
We’re communicating with each other more than ever before. WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Instagram have become king for keeping connected replacing traditional mail but for me, text messaging still reigns supreme. It has been nearly 27 years since the first… Read More ›
5G should be regarded as a convergent technology first and foremost rather than merely a mobile capability, according to Lise Fuhr, Director General at the European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association. Addressing a global gathering of telecom professionals at Informa Tech’s… Read More ›
Stephen Rue, chief executive officer at NBN Co, the company rolling out the Australian national broadband network took some time out during Informa Tech’s Broadband World Forum in Amsterdam to review some recent developments of the rollout as it gathers pace in… Read More ›
Proposed new identification measures, designed to reduce mobile number fraud are continuing to win favour in the industry – but there’s a caveat, with one vendor calling on Australia to go even further. The new telco regulations, announced by the… Read More ›
Equinix is taking its Australian customers to the edge, providing Network Edge Services via Sydney. Network Edge Services (NES) provides virtual network services, enabling enterprises to deploy network functions virtualisation from multiple vendors to connect their digital supply chains at… Read More ›
A UN-backed report on global broadband access has uncovered an urgent need to improve global connectivity, with traditional strategies failing to enable the remaining half of the global population to get online. According to the State of Broadband 2019: Broadband as… Read More ›
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has hailed newly implemented measures to deal with mobile number fraud. Flagging mobile number fraud as the gateway to identity theft the authority said the issue occurs when scammers steal personal details to gain… Read More ›
Telstra chairman John Mullen used this week’s AGM to play up the telco’s ‘T22’ turnaround strategy – unveiled in June 2018 – dubbing it ‘the most radical and ambitious [transformation] being undertaken by any communications company in the world today’…. Read More ›
Consumers and businesses are set to benefit enormously from the exponential network improvements promised by 5G. More than just an incremental upgrade, 5G will create opportunities for the most exciting science fiction inventions to become science facts. It will lead… Read More ›
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is set to review whether Australians can access basic broadband plans at fair and affordable prices, as part of an inquiry into NBN wholesale charges. The inquiry will examine wholesale prices paid by retail… Read More ›
This week Telecom Times will be reporting from Broadband World Forum 2019 in Amsterdam. The event – from 15-17 October 2019|RAI, Amsterdam in the Netherlands – is themed Separate fact from fiction, Cut through industry hype and get real answers to… Read More ›
Software-as-a-Service renewal firm Renewtrak has flagged the upcoming opening of its new global headquarters in Palo Alto, to underpin strong early demand for its offerings which are aimed squarely at the tech industry. “We’re about to go on a recruitment drive… Read More ›
Brisbane-based elastic fibre provider Superloop has entered into a strategic partnership with Australian enterprise-grade network specialist Comscentre to deliver a suite of network, hosted and managed services. Superloop said under the collaboration its own metro fibre network allowed Comscentre to deliver… Read More ›
Network security is not only a top boardroom priority, but ensuring the protection of corporate data moving from the edge network out to the cloud and back is not an easy task, given today’s complex hybrid-cloud architectures. Network security… Read More ›