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.
Some telecoms and hyperscaler infrastructure arrangements are being treated by advisers as potentially captured by Australia’s new mandatory merger notification regime, including IRU purchases, data centre leases and even outsourcing agreements involving assets or legal rights.
SIGN UP TO READThe ACCC has made new wholesale and network record keeping rules that will require a wider set of carriers and carriage service providers to report wholesale service and network usage data from 1 January 2027.
SIGN UP TO READThe ACCC has used the final report of its Measuring Broadband Australia program to declare a marked improvement in NBN fixed-line performance since the scheme was established in 2017.
SIGN UP TO READCommunications platform as a service provider Twilio has raised concerns about the structure of Australia’s A2P SMS market, telling the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission that the uniformity of SMS termination rates may indicate coordinated pricing dynamics or a lack of effective wholesale competition.
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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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