Kogan Internet has lowered its NBN prices to be a smidgeon below Vodafone's newly lowered prices, but with Vodafone offering 4G backup, Vodafone wins the better value battle despite Kogan's cheaper pricing, according to our in-house pundit.

A major research firm has publicly questioned whether the still unavailable 5G service will have compelling enough use cases for businesses to massively uptake, and has shared its view.

Motorways operator Transurban has proposed an undertaking to publish toll roads data for NSW to meet ACCC competition concerns over the intended acquisition of a majority interest in the WestConnex motorway by the Sydney Transport Partners consortium it leads.

Engineers at Google used search queries from a Chinese Web directory service owned by the company to develop blacklists for a censored search engine that is planned to be provided in China, possibly as soon as this year. A functioning version of the search engine is said to be ready.

New Zealand’s largest telco Spark says it is on track to start providing 5G services to consumers and businesses from 2020 following the success of trials of the technology.

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