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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

  • Australian fibre infrastructure start-up Coretora is planning a new dark fibre corridor connecting emerging data centre and power precincts south-west of Melbourne with the city’s established western availability zone, targeting the first stage for service by early 2028.

  • Macquarie Data Centres has arranged to acquire a $200 million parcel of land in Sydney to build a technology and engineering campus and a roughly 200MW data centre.

  • The federal government risks hollowing out Australia’s domestic telco and IT sector by imposing heavy regulatory and tax burdens on local companies while giving foreign hyperscalers more favourable treatment, Venture Insights managing director David Kennedy has warned.

  • Data Centres Australia has welcomed the establishment of an Office of AI and said an approach outlined earlier this week by prime minister Anthony Albanese could help deliver regulatory certainty for the sector.

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