The COVID-19 pandemic is slowing the licensing of software products, with application software companies facing a tough 2020, according to global analyst firm GlobalData.

Broadband data demand on the National Broadband Network’s main wholesale access service has remained above pre-COVID 19 levels, according to the network operator, NBN Co.

Australia’s second largest telco Optus has suffered an operating revenue decline of 2% to A$8,954 million for the full year to the end of March, despite higher NBN migration revenue offsetting lower equipment and service revenues.

Yet another new Gigabit broadband provider is set to unveil a plan. Tasmanian ISP Launtel will launch a new service from 29 May based on the new NBN 1000/50 connection that the NBN Co is launching that day.

New Zealand cable operator Hawaiki Submarine Cable has entered into a multi-million-dollar deal with two other firms to increase the capacity linking Pacific territories and nations to Hawaii and the US mainland.

US Federal Government authorities seized a 226-tonne electricity transformer made by Chinese company Jiangsu Huapeng Transformer Company at Houston port last summer and took it to Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for unspecified reasons, The Wall Street Journal reports.

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