Data and analytics firm GlobalData has analysed the data on Huawei and ZTE's US troubles, and has some serious suggestions on how they might circumvent the already widespread and growing anti-China telecoms tech bans and crack the US market.

Australia’s peak advocacy group for communications consumers, the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network, has raised concerns that consumers currently do not have guarantees in relation to connection, reliability and repair timeframes for broadband with services through their retail service provider and the National Broadband Network (NBN).

Construction of a new IT gaming and networking facility at Murdoch University in Western Australia is due to commence this month.

Australia has an enormous role to play in terms of fostering the country’s games sector, according to the Labor Party’s Shadow Minister for Communications, Michelle Rowland.

Counterpoint's Refurbished Smartphone tracker shows the global market grew 13% YoY in 2017, reaching 140 million units, compared with new smartphone sales growing just 3% last year.

The majority of authentication methods used by organisations "aren’t up to scratch compared to those offered by consumer websites such as Facebook and Amazon," according to the latest research from Gemalto.

2050 is only three upgrade cycles away, observed Cisco senior vice-president and general manager for applications Rowan Trollope in his keynote presentation at Cisco Live 2018 in Melbourne, so it's time to think about what's ahead.

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