One in three (39%) Australians already face regular streaming dropouts and the demand for the Internet is about to surge as more Australians remain housebound due to the Covit-19 pandemic, according to comparison website Finder which says telcos should purchase more capacity from the NBN to help Internet users working from home through the crisis.

There was a time when it made sense to suggest to the Federal Government ways and means of upgrading the national broadband network to an all-fibre one. But that time is not now, not when the country is battling hard to keep the outbreak of a disease under control, not when the financial aid and plans that deliver it to individuals out of work should be immediate, says Sam Varghese.

NBN Co is allowing Sky Muster satellite users to consume additional data during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The group behind the REvil Windows ransomware has hit Melbourne-based government-accredited IT services provider Geidi and is waiting to hear from the company, security sources have told iTWire.

A Sydney-based biometric identity start-up has launched what it claims is a industry-first security solution that provides a unified biometric credential which can be used for authentication across all physical and digital access points.

Disaster-recovery-as-a-service provider Zerto has released version 8.0 of its software, featuring integration with Google Cloud, closer integration with the Azure and AWS public platforms, and more innovation with VMware.

Nokia has announced that it has declared more than 3,000 patent families to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) as essential for the 5G standard.

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