Telstra's variation to the NBN migration plan, using fibre-to-the-curb in addition to other technologies, has been granted approval by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

Australia has no official policy on cryptocurrencies. That is the only conclusion one can draw, after nearly a month of chasing the minister on cyber security, Angus Taylor, to get an answer.

If AWS failed, would the world end? Even if AWS customers have the technical ability to restore their workloads elsewhere, where would they find sufficient capacity, given that AWS has something like 44% of the market? It seems unlikely that the remaining companies would have enough idle capacity to take up the slack.

Vodafone has substantially expanded its Australia-wide mobile network, adding 128 new mobile sites across the network.

The future of communications technologies across the Asia-Pacific region will be under the microscope when the Asia Pacific Telecommunity (APT) Preparatory Group will hold an international spectrum meeting in Perth in March.

News Corporation and Telstra have announced an agreement to combine Foxtel and Fox Sports Australia, in what they claim is a move that "will deliver premium and innovative content to Australians with ever greater quality, variety and efficiency”.

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