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.
A major Vodafone outage yesterday was caused by the failure of power in a significant network node at a data centre in western Sydney, owner TPG Telecom has confirmed. A spokesperson said the outage affected a significant number of customers, but not in the millions, as media and consumer groups had suggested.
SIGN UP TO READThe Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has rejected a request by Amazon’s satellite arm to be exempted from new wholesale and networks record keeping rules until it builds scale in the local market.
SIGN UP TO READInvestigations of network activity by the NSW Telco Authority and the NSW Department of Customer Service in late 2025 uncovered evidence of activity linked to the high-profile China-based threat actor dubbed Salt Typhoon.
SIGN UP TO READAustralian neocloud Sharon AI has raised US$1.6 billion ($2.27 billion) in financing via private placements to support its ambition of deploying one of Australia’s largest AI factories in collaboration with NVIDIA.
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CommsDay Summit is over for another year. Its 25th edition was the biggest yet with nearly 500 delegates. Powerpoints for some sessions are below (not all speakers used powerpoints, others used videos which we do not desire to load here)
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