Coming year will be crucial for Australia’s telecommunications sector
Australia’s telecommunication market is in for a crucial year as a number of situations that will define the sector play out.
Central among them will be the proposed merger between TPG and Vodafone Hutchison Australia, which is now in doubt after the competition regulator expressed deep competition concerns.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), has indicated that it may block the deal, given that customers could end up “paying higher prices” for “less innovative” mobile and fixed broadband plans if the companies are allowed to merge.
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SpaceX wants to take Starlink broadband Australia-wide
Asks spectrum licensing authorities not to artificially limit reach.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has urged Australian authorities not to constrain where the company might be able to offer its ambitious Starlink broadband service.
The company used a submission [pdf] to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to lay out its likely future spectrum needs for Starlink.
Starlink is an ambitious plan to deploy a constellation of up to 11,943 satellites that would blanket the world with high-speed internet.
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Optus switches on new mobile tower in Campania
Invests more than $2.6 million across the Southern Midlands
Optus today announced it has continued to improve mobile coverage across the Southern Midlands after switching on a new mobile tower in Campania.
The new tower will address a known black spot identified by the local community, providing residents and visitors with dedicated 4G mobile coverage to make and receive calls, texts and access mobile data for the first time.
Optus Territory General Manager for Tasmania, Peter West said, over the last 12-months Optus has invested $2.6 million in the Southern Midlands, switching on new sites at Jericho East, Outlands, Bagdad and Campania.
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Optus switches on mobile towers in West Arthur
Optus announced today it will continue to improve mobile coverage across West Arthur after switching on two new mobile towers at Darkan and Bokal.
The new tower at Darkan and site at Bokal covering Boyup Brook-Arthur Road will provide greatly improved 4G mobile coverage and capacity to make and receive calls, texts and access mobile data.
Optus regional Western Australia territory general manager Cameron Edwards said the new sites would ‘not only improve coverage for those living and working in Darkan but also ... for those who travel along the Coalfields Highway every day’.
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NBN Co makes play for mm-wave 5G spectrum
Asks for 26 GHz licenses in all parts of wireless footprint.
NBN Co is starting to lay the groundwork for a future foray into millimetre-wave 5G, which it revealed in June as a likely future upgrade path for its fixed wireless network.
The company has asked the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to make 26 GHz spectrum available in all areas where NBN Co currently runs fixed wireless services.
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NBN Co plans wireless revamp, download speeds of up to 75Mbps on the agenda
NBN Co has released details of its plan to ditch one of its wireless wholesale speed tiers, replacing it with a new product that is expected to eventually support download speeds of up to 75 megabits per second (Mbps) in some circumstances.
The Fixed Wireless Plus product will launch in mid-2019 and initially support download speeds of up to 60Mbps and upload speeds of up to 20Mbps. (Although NBN Co cautions that the product “will provide the best available speeds the network can achieve at the time of use, but such available speeds will fluctuate during the day, and end users may receive speeds that are significantly less than the maximum potential network speed, particularly in the busy period.”)
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NBN Co to re-launch fixed wireless at up to 75 Mbps
Spectrum management tricks turn fixed wireless into Fixed Wireless Plus.
NBN Co has announced a significant restructuring and relaunch for its fixed wireless services that will see the product reach for 75 Mbps downloads in the year 2020, as revealed by iTnews in August.
The re-launch is a child of urgent necessity and innovation.
The necessity is an ACMA edict to spectrum users in the 3.4GHz to 3.6GHz bands that requires a new interference management regime that includes specified downlink and uplink network configuration measures. The effect of that edict is that NBN Co will have to withdraw its current wholesale 25-50/5-20 Mbps products by the end of 2019.
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Optus switches on two new sites Darkan and Bokal
Plans to invest more than $2.6 million in mobile coverage across Southern Wheatbelt
Optus today announced it will continue to improve mobile coverage across the Southern Wheatbelt after switching on two new mobile towers at Darkan and Bokal.
The new tower at Darkan, located centrally and the new site at Bokal covering the Boy-up Brook Arthur Road, provides greatly improved 4G mobile coverage and capacity for residents and travelers to make and receive calls, texts and access mobile data.
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Optus brings dedicated mobile coverage to North Rothbury
Invests $1 million in mobile coverage across Lower Hunter region
Optus today announced it will continue to improve mobile coverage across the Hunter region after switching on a new mobile tower in North Rothbury.
The new tower will provide improved 4G mobile coverage for residents and visitors to make and receive calls, texts and access mobile data.
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Optus switches on 10 more mobile towers in regional NSW and WA
Telco Singtel Optus has switched on six new mobile towers across the Northern Wheatbelt region, to provide improved 4G coverage for residents.
Optus’ Territory general manager for Regional Western Australia, Cameron Edwards, said: “This financial year, Optus has invested $3.85 million in its mobile network across the region, working with local communities to improve mobile coverage in their area.”
“We’re committed to providing great coverage and great value to our customers, having switched on sites in Quairading, Baandee, Wyalkatchem, Koorda, Cunderdin and Round Hill.
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