| Hi John, Vodafone Hutchison Australia says it will activate its first 5G site within a few weeks even as it released its full-year results for 2019 showing that it lost 275,000 mobile customers in 2019. The first lot of 5G sites are likely to be in and around Parramatta in NSW.
Telecommunications and data centre provider Macquarie Telecom has boosted revenue by 9% to $131.9 million for the half year to the end of December 2019, delivering what the company says is eleven halves of growth as it continues to invest in data centres cloud and security.
Google has made a formal application to the US Government to be exempted from the country's ban on trading with the Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies.
Slovakian security firm ESET has discovered a vulnerability in Wi-Fi chips made by Broadcom and Cypress that results in the changing of an encryption key to a string of zeroes when encrypting part of a user's communications.
Operators looking to leverage their fixed networks to deliver on the promise of 5G will soon have new tools at their disposal, according to the communications industry open standards development organisation Broadband Forum, which has just announced the finalisation of two new 5G standards. And of course, there's plenty more so for all the news visit www.itwire.com.
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