The first 40 buildings have been connected to Ten Gigabit Adelaide, a fibre optic network which is designed for businesses and corporate big data users located in the Adelaide CBD to gain a competitive advantage for their businesses.

The Greens want to see $100 million invested in a newly established Games Investment and Enterprise Fund for game development projects and to help successful games companies grow their businesses.

Transmission wholesale services in the telecommunications sector — including the impact that NBN services are having on competition within the transmission market — are to come under scrutiny from the competition watchdog, the ACCC, in a public inquiry which has just opened.

French economy minister Bruno Le Maire says the EU has plans to tax big multinational technology companies — like Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon — between 2% and 6% of their revenue, with the figure being closer to the lower end.

Mobile telecommunications company OVO Mobile has acquired mobile engagement technology company Incoming Media, a tech start-up which emerged out of NICTA, now Data 61.

To serve this modern world with a rapid proliferation of connected devices and a rich variety of networking opportunities, NETSCOUT has a new smart network tester, the LinkRunner G2. iTWire CIO in residence David Williams tested it out.

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