As the Communications Minister gets grilled about the NBN during a series of doorstops today, the company building Australia's national broadband network has misled people on the cost of providing fibre-to-the-premises, according to a senior academic who was intimately involved with the project.

Australia's fourth largest telecommunications company Vocus Communications has received a second acquisition bid, from Asian private equity firm Affinity Equity Partners.

Aussie mobile phone users are estimated to have collectively been charged as much as $20 million in the last six months for third-party charges on their phones for purchases they didn’t even realise they were being stung for, according to a new report from telecoms consumer advocacy group the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network.

National agtech innovation hub SproutX has accepted 11 start-ups into its accelerator programme in a bid to help transform Australia's agriculture sector through smart technology.

A group that represents IT professionals has criticised the Australian Government for "tinkering around the edges" with the skilled migration visa policy, which it says "is not a satisfactory response to the number of workers from overseas that are being bought in to fill low-level IT jobs in Australia".

Nest, a company owned by Google’s parent Alphabet, has announced that its safety and security products are now available in Australia in a unique deal with comparative services facilitator iSelect.

Respected communications entrepreneur of Netcomm fame, David Stewart, has continued his successful journey of achievement and leadership by becoming Pycom’s new Chairman.

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