Hi John, Australia’s competition regulator the ACCC says it has given price certainty for legacy wholesale telecommunications services with its decision to maintain existing price and non-price terms until 30 June 2024 for seven declared, or regulated, fixed line services.
Twenty-eight submissions, practically all from individuals, have been made to the inquiry into 5G in Australia being conducted by the Standing Committee on Communications and the Arts. Five G is Australia’s last chance to deliver universal high-speed broadband to all Australians, according to Chinese telco giant Huawei, which says that Australia is already being left far behind in the global race to deliver 5G technology. Indian global technology firm HCL Technologies has teamed up with Google to launch a Google Cloud Business unit through which it aims to push the adoption of enterprise cloud. Researchers at Pennsylvania State University in the US claim to have developed a means of charging an electric battery in about 10 minutes, removing one of the main fears that owners of electric vehicles are said to have, something called the "range anxiety problem". After two years of declines, global smartphone shipments increased in the third quarter of 2019, growing by 1%, as Samsung shipped 78.9 million units, an increase of 11% year-on-year which showed that its strategy of giving up operating profit for market share had worked. And of course, there's plenty more so for all the news visit www.itwire.com. Have a great day! Stan Beer, Editor, iTWire ADVERTISE IN THIS NEWSLETTER & iTWire.com Contact: andrew.matler@itwire.com 0412 390 000
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