It looks like the days of freeloading for American digital platforms will end when the clock strikes midnight on 31 December. Unless, of course, the likes of Google and Facebook go crying to [US President] Uncle Donald Trump and ask him to give naughty Scott Morrison a rap on the knuckles to stop Australia from charging these two companies almighty fines for their use of Australian news content.
Sam Varghese has penned another biting commentary about the surprise move the Australian Government has taken against the Silicon Valley tech giants.
Protesters have rallied in numbers outside the Apple Store in Washington DC, demanding that the company take steps to protect free speech and human rights in China.
The US obsession with Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies may be well-intentioned, but could end up seriously harming the country's economy and national security, a senior adviser and trustee chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC, says, in an article written as a brief for the Centre and sent to subscribers of The China Wire website in its weekly email titled "What we're reading this week".
As part of our series on the future of the NBN, iTWire had hoped to round off things with the opinions of Communications Minister Paul Fletcher and Shadow Communications Minister Michelle Rowland, the two people who are in a position to actually decide on what the future of the network will be.
Telecommunications and data centre provider Macquarie Telecom has secured a deal with Australian gas supplier Supagas, to provide VoIP, SD-WAN, NBN, mobile and data centre services aimed at helping accelerate the company’s cloud migration.
Another 5G deal for guess who. Indonesian mobile service provider XL Axiata has chosen Swedish telecommunications provider Ericsson to deploy a 5G-ready cloud core technology solution in the east of the country, including Ericsson Cloud Packet Core and Network Functions Virtualisation Infrastructure.
Data centre operator NextDC has formally opened its new P2 data centre in Perth. P2 Perth is a 20MW hyperscale cloud colocation facility located in the CBD, and will be Perth's only Uptime Tier IV certified, completely fault tolerant data centre for design, constructed facility and gold operational sustainability, the company claims.
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