Lane Cove Council has called for stronger regulation of telecommunications works associated with data centres, warning that existing federal powers can leave councils and communities carrying the cost of damaged local infrastructure.

Superloop delivered the fastest average download and upload speeds among Australian fixed-line NBN services in Opensignal’s latest broadband analysis, while Starlink recorded the second-fastest downloads across all technologies measured.

Telstra CEO Vicki Brady has said the telco is reviewing critical capabilities across its network to ensure they have the right level of priority applied to them, after a review of the July mobile outage found that network timing had not been treated as a sovereign function.

The federal government has launched a voluntary cyber security labelling scheme designed to help consumers assess the security of connected devices, including home routers and other Internet of Things equipment.