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Established in 1994, Communications Day is the authoritative source for commercial, regulatory, political and technology news and analysis for telecommunications in Australia and New Zealand. Delivered every working day to a reader base of C-level executives, regulators, government and opposition ministers and their staff, CommsDay provides essential business intelligence and a key competitive advantage for anyone working in the ANZ telecoms sector.

 

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in today’s issue of commsday

  • Small regulatory reforms supporting telecommunications infrastructure deployment could deliver outsized productivity gains, particularly in regional areas and growth corridors, the Australian Telecommunication Alliance has told a Senate inquiry.

  • Optus could face penalties totalling more than $251 million after the Australian Communications and Media Authority launched Federal Court action over the telco’s September 2025 Triple Zero outage.

  • As part of its next series of customer trials, the NSW Telco Authority is planning to examine the resilience, traffic prioritisation and enhanced encryption capabilities of Amazon’s LEO satellite constellation.

  • The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is consulting on whether to approve an application by NBN Co to allocate dark fibre leasing costs associated with enterprise Ethernet services and new developments under its approved cost allocation manual.

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October 13/14 2026Sheraton Grand Sydney

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