This Month
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Vodafone gets a start in the bush, now to make it work
Vodafone’s never been able to justify going to the bush. It needs at least 100,000 more customers to make its new deal work.
- Anthony Macdonald
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
How AirTrunk helped make the careers of these bankers
The $24 billion sale of the data centre business was making waves long before this week.
- Anthony Macdonald
TPG Telecom, Optus network-sharing deal gets ACCC approval
TPG Telecom will market its mobile phone services to more Australians after the competition regulator said it could share networks with Optus in regional areas.
- Jenny Wiggins
NBN Co names Vocus’ Ellie Sweeney as next CEO
The Vocus Group boss will step into Stephen Rue’s shoes as he prepares to take the reins at Optus.
- Jenny Wiggins
David Dicker’s private jet life among F1 elite
The founder of Dicker Data might not have his team on the F1 grid, but he’s gotten onto the tarmac.
- Mark Di Stefano
August
TPG Telecom cuts 120 jobs as interim profits slide
The telco group, which is carrying more than $4 billion in debt, says it needs to keep reducing its expenses.
- Jenny Wiggins
How Russia’s Mark Zuckerberg became a wanted man
The arrest in France of Telegram owner Pavel Durov turned him into a folk hero among those concerned about free speech and government censorship.
- Paul Mozur and Adam Satariano
Aussie Broadband pays first dividend, cuts jobs
Aussie Broadband declared its first-ever dividend after it connected more customers to the internet, boosting annual net profit by 21 per cent.
- Jenny Wiggins
Superloop is winning the race for value, CEO claims
Aggressive competition in the broadband market is benefiting the internet provider as people trade down to cheaper plans.
- Updated
- Jenny Wiggins
Telcos gear up for tech showdown
Australia’s biggest telcos are battling for taxpayer dollars in the debate over replacing ageing copper wires.
- Jenny Wiggins
Telstra boss Vicki Brady retreats from the ‘telco for everything’
The era of hotchpotch acquisitions and experimenting with non-telco services such as selling energy plans is over.
- Jenny Wiggins
- Opinion
- Telecommunications
Why Telstra’s latest strategy shift might pay off
Why Vicki Brady wants to keep Telstra’s infrastructure assets close and growing even if mobiles remain today’s success story.
- Updated
- Jennifer Hewett
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
What’s behind Telstra’s pointed message for the government
Telstra isn’t getting the returns it should on its huge capital expenditure bill. Vicki Brady wants to change that by pulling three levers.
- James Thomson
- Updated
- Earnings season
Telstra goes big on infrastructure as it bets on AI
The country’s largest telco says Australia has an opportunity to “really reinvigorate” how people connect, as it reports a 13 per cent slide in profit.
- Jenny Wiggins
Optus falls out with its mobile towers investor AustralianSuper
The country’s largest super fund acquired a controlling stake in the telco’s infrastructure business for almost $2 billion in 2021. But relations have since soured.
- Aaron Weinman and Jenny Wiggins
Optus’ Australian accounts show $480m loss
Optus filed its own accounts with regulators this week showing its annual loss deepened more than six-fold from a year earlier.
- Jenny Wiggins
July
Former TPG Telecom email customers to be slugged up to $95 annually
Accounts with iiNet, Internode and Westnet addresses will start paying a yearly fee from September after they were transferred to a Norwegian-owned company.
- Jenny Wiggins
Hacked Optus gets award for cybersecurity nous
The irony of the award going to a company defending both a class action and an ACMA civil lawsuit for alleged security failures hung heavy in the room.
- Updated
- Myriam Robin
Aussie Broadband discount offshoot Buddy chases lost customers
Aussie Broadband is hoping to win back some of the customers lost to rival Superloop with a new, cheap internet brand, Buddy Telco.
- Jenny Wiggins
AT&T hack undermines US national security, experts say
The telco giant said a hacker had compromised its network and stolen records of calls and text messages from nearly all of its 100 million wireless customers.
- Ryan Gallagher
