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.
Telstra has warned that the Australian Communications and Media Authority's proposed mobile coverage mapping standard risks declaring large parts of regional Australia as having no coverage despite millions of calls, messages and data sessions being carried there each day.
SIGN UP TO READTelstra has detailed its efforts over the course of three to four years to build a data infrastructure allowing it to leverage the mass amounts of events generated through use of its networks and prepare for the increasing use of AI technologies.
SIGN UP TO READSpaceX has unveiled Starlink Mobile, a new brand for its direct-to-device satellite connectivity platform, alongside plans for a significantly upgraded constellation designed to deliver broadband-class connectivity directly to standard smartphones.
SIGN UP TO READOptus and Telstra are collaborating on the release of common network application programming interfaces under the auspices of the GSMA's Open Gateway initiative, with scam and fraud disruption an early focus of the work.
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The second CommsDay Regional & Policy Forum is over for another year but you can revisit the presentations with a download of some of the major PPT presentations. Zip files below for one week only til 6 March.
The Telecommunications (Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Consumer Protections) Industry Standard 2025 is now mandatory, replacing voluntary guidelines with enforceable obligations for carriers and carriage service providers. The Standard introduces consistent minimum protections for affected consumers and has implications for customer engagement, disconnections and reconnections, privacy and security, complaints handling, record-keeping, staff training and governance. This webinar, led by Andrew Sheridan, provides a practical guide to the obligations, compliance timelines for providers of different sizes, and how regulators will assess readiness.
The Broadband Forum’s BASe Summit is coming to Melbourne this month in partnership with CommsDay. The Summit will feature presentations, panels, and roundtable discussions of technical advancements, real-world implementations, testing and strategic technical planning. Additionally, the valuable peer-to-peer engagement of this face-to-face event will be aided by valuable networking, social mixer, and and a demonstration by nbn Australia.